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19 Cards in this Set
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Feudalism
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The feudal system, or its principles and practices.
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Kingdom / King / Queen
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A state or government having a king or queen as its head.
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Lord
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A person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
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Knight
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A mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
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Serf
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A person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
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Vassal |
(In the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant. |
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Chivalry |
The sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy,generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms. |
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Pope/Papacy |
A person considered as having or assuming authority or a position similar to that of the Roman Catholic pope.
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Excommunicate |
To cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence. |
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Holy Roman Emperor |
The ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Bishop of Constantinople
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Is first among equals, or first in honor among all Eastern Orthodox bishops. |
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The Great Schism |
The division or conflict in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were rival popes at Avignon and Rome. |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
The body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox. |
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Pope Gregory VII |
Pope from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085. |
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Emperor Henry IV |
Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany (1056–1106) who struggled for power with Pope Gregory VII. |
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First Crusade
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It started as a widespread pilgrimage in western Christendom and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Land taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant.
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Second Crusade
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The second major crusade launched from Europe as Catholic ('Latin') holy war against Islam.
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Third Crusade
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Also known as The Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin.
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Holy Land / Jerusalem
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Region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, in what is now Israel and Palestine, revered by Christians as the place in which Christ lived and taught, by Jews as the land given to the people of Israel, and by Muslims.
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