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reign |
the period of time during which a king or other monarch rules |
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Christianity |
the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus |
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Charlemagne |
the leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 C.E., who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire |
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feudalism |
the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection |
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fief |
land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service |
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survive |
to continue to exist |
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serf |
a peasant who could not leave the lord’s land on which he or she was born and worked |
