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18 Cards in this Set
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Barter |
To exchange goods without using money |
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Clergy |
People of the church (bishops, priests, etc.) |
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Code of Chivalry |
Strict rules of conduct followed by medieval knights |
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Excommunication |
The power to expel someone from the Christian Church, which kept them out of heaven |
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Fallow |
When land is left unplanted so that it can renew its nutrients |
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Fief |
A parcel of land that is granted from a lord to a vassal |
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Feudalism |
A political system based on the bonds of loyalty between a lord and a vassal |
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Guilds |
Groups of people who did the same type of job. Ex: carpenters, bakers, masons |
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Homage |
The ceremony in which a vassal pledged loyalty to a lord |
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Lord |
A person who granted lands to others who would then owe him labor, taxes, & military service |
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Magna Carta |
document signed by King John I of England granting rights to his nobles |
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Manors |
self-sufficient medieval communitie |
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Monasteries |
isolated communities of monks |
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Monks |
men who gave up all worldly possessions to live a completely religious life outside of society |
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Nobility |
the land-owning upper class of medieval times |
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Secular |
non-religious |
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Serf |
a lower-class peasant who was tied to the land |
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Vassal |
someone who was granted land by a lord, to whom they then owed labor, taxes |
