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Anglo-Saxons

Germainc tribes came selled and ruled england till norman conquest

Vikings

Norse seafarers from Scandinavia who raided and settled in various parts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries.

longships

were sleek, fast ships used by the Vikings for exploration, trade, and warfare, designed for both ocean voyages and shallow river navigation.

Rus

a group of Norse traders and warriors who traveled and settled along the volga and dinper rivers of Eastern Europe founded Novgorod and were russia’s namesake

Thralls

Viking slaves

Danelaw

A country made by the great heathen army, ligitimsed by Alfred of wessex where danish laws and customs prevailed

Feudalism

a medival system where vassles would give an oath of fielty and homage to kings in exchange for a fief

Fief

the territory of a lord

Vassal

a subordinate in the feudal system

Homage

A plege of miltary service

oath of fielty

plege of loyalty to ones lord

primgenture

a system of frist born inheritance

manorialism

a medival ecomic system based on the maron house run by a lord where serfs would be givien land in exchange for taxs and mintary service

Manor

A house or seris of building where a lord would lib=ve often lighlty fortified

serf

the pesent in the feudal system

succession crisis

after the death of Edward the confessior, harold godwinson, harold hadrada and duke william of normandy all had a claim to the english throne, ending in the battle of hasting where william the conquer was victories

Domesday book

commissied by william the conquer to asses all the proptery and assets of his new kindom aslo involed send minster out to force pepole to swear oaths

Just war theory

expanded on by thomas aquina