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15 Cards in this Set
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Medieval
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Middle Ages - Waves of invaders accross Europe. War, underdeveloped technologies, slow trade, learning virtually ceased.
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Germanic tribes
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Farmers and herders who migrated accross Europe. Ruled by no written laws, were nomads, elected Kings.
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Missi dominici
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Officials who kept control of the provincial rules. Were supposed to administer law fully and justly.
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Treaty of Verdum
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Signed in 843. Splited former Chalemagne empire into three regions.
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Vikings
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Expert sailors from Scandinavia, looted and burne comunities along the coast and rivers of Europe.
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Middle Ages
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500 to 1300 AD
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Early Middle Ages
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500 to 1000 AD
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Monarch
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Greater lord
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Lords
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Dukes and counts, holding the larger fields
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Vassals
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Lesser lords who pledged service and loyalty to greater lords.
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Noblewomen
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Supervised vassals in absence of husband. Managed the household, performed necessary agriculture and medical duties.
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Knigths
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Mounted warrior.trained for war through tournments
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Peasants
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Poorest sector of middle age society. Exchange labor for protection and the rigth to farm for their own.
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Positive - Church on M.A.
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Help sick and poor, social centered, schools, kept peace on feudal system,
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Negative - Church on M.A.
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Economic power, women punished more severely, high political power, more interested on themselves than church, strict.
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