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33 Cards in this Set
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Lords & vassals
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lord - landowner
vassal - person who receives land from lord |
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Knights
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men who defended their lords' land
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Fief
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granted land
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Castles
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the place where the Kings, Queens, Lords, & Knights lived
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Serfs
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people who could not leave the place they were born
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monks, friars, & nuns
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monks - lived in monasteries
fraiars - owned nothing and lived by begging nuns - women who worked with the sick & poor |
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Manor
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the lord's estate
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Pope
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father of the Church
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Simony
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the buying and selling of religious offices
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Sacraments
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sacred rites
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tithe
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church tax
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monastery & convent
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monastery: the place where the monks lived
convent: the place where the nuns lived |
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excommunication
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christians that disobeyed the church
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The Crusades
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Holy Wars... about the holy land
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inquisition
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unifying the country under Christianity
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Papal Curia
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a court created by the pope's advisors
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Gothic Architecture
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a cathedral that reached "up to the heavens"
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stained glass
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windows that were illustrated the stories from the Bible (not many people knew how to read)
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Manual labor
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work that was done by hand
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hierarchy
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the different ranks that people had
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Muslims
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a group of people that were in Jerusalem first
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Germanic tribes
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the people that made the Roman Empire fall
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parish
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to be destroyed
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The Plague
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A DEADLY DISEASE!!!! it killed 1/3 of Europe's population
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Saladin
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a Kurdish warrior and Muslim leader
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Richard I
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the English King was left to lead the Crusades
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Pope Urban II
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a person who convinced everyone to go into war
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Council of Constantine
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3 popes that were chosen by the court to attempt to end the Great Schism
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Flying buttress
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arks that transferred weight to the exterior walls
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ribbed vault & pointed arch
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vaults: supported the roof's weight
arches: framed the stain glass windows |
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feudalism
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it is an economic and political system based on land and protection
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feudal contract
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an agreement when the lord would give land to the vassal in exchange for protection
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decentralization
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land that was spread from 1 King to many different Lords; grandsons fighting and invasions
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