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12 Cards in this Set
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Homage
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When pledging service to lord, a vassle must kneel before lord and place hands in their lords hands and give a pledge of a life time of loyalty and service.
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Fealty
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a solem pledge of a lifetime of loyalty and service.
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Vassle
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a peasent of serf giving a pledge of fealty in a process called a homage.
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Blacksmith
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a peasent who works with iron and various metals to make horse shoes, armour, swords,tools and weapons
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Barbarians (roman)
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What the ancient romans called anyone who live outside roman borders.
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Barbarians (modern)
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Someone who is uncivillised. This adjective is often paired with canible or feral.
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Magna Carter
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founding english legal document by which king john ceded some of his power to nobles and protected certain rights of his subjects. Its is also abolished trial by ordeal.
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Manor
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Large house or mansion belonging to a lord
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Monk
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A male member or a religious order who has vowed to live a life of obedience, poverty, chasity and live in a monastery.
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Middle Class
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a social class between privileged nobility and poor serfs. This rank is often given to merchants or wealthier craftsman.
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fief
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a gift, usually land, given from lord to vassle or tennant in exchange for loyalty and service.
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feudalism
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the web of relationship between a lord and vassle, by which the lords protection and gift was exchanged for the vassles longtime service.
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