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Baptism
Making yourself Christian by a priest who puts you in water
Hermits
a person living in solitude as a religious discipline.
Serfs
an agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on their lord's estate.
Monastery
A castle were monks and nuns devote their life to god
Scripture
he sacred writings of Christianity contained in the Bible
Feudal system
A system of promising loyalty in exchange for pieces of land
Manor system
A system where lord provided protection in exchange for services
Church fathers
They wrote books and created rule on how to live as a good Christian.
Pagan
Someone who is not Christian
Middle Ages
Dark ages, from the fall of rome untill renaissance.
Monks and nuns
People who convert their lives to god and live in a monastry
Franks
People of the frankish empire
Relics
Pieces that are perceived to be the belongings of saints or martyrs. They claimed it had magic powers.
Bedouin
a nomadic Arab of the desert.
Revelations
Receiving messages from god
Quran
Holy book of Islam
Prophet
Someone who recieves relevations
Islam
The monotheistic religion which has Muhammad as prophet
Hijrah
Muhammad fled from mecca to medina, first year of Islam calender
Muslims
People who believe in Islam.
Ummah
The Muslim society
Caliph
successor of the prophet Muhammad
Karls
The free men in Norse society
Jarls
A Viking chief
Thralls
A slave in Norse society
Valhalla
A place where they worshipped soldiers after dead
Raiding
short surprise attack
Norsemen
People van Scandinavia
Vikings
Norsemen who sail out to plunder
Normandy
A piece of land ruled by Rollo
Jihad
Striving to live to Gods rules.
Assimilation
Adoption pieces of culture
Kaaba
Gebedshuis in Mekka, Saudi-Arabië
Stereotype
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of someone
Longship
a long, narrow warship, powered by both oar and sail with many rowers, used by the Vikings and other ancient northern European peoples.
3rd century
Christians move to the Egyptian desert in isolation
5th century
Great Migration Period
476
Fall of Rome
511
Clovis gets baptized
754
Boniface gets killed at Dokkum
622
Muhammad flees to Medina (Hijrah)
570
Muhammad born in Mecca
732
Battle of Poitiers
840
Charlemagne dies
911
Rollo receive fief from French king
1002
Leif Erikson sailed to Newfoundland (Canada)
Atilla the Hun
Leader of the hun tribe
Clovis
Eerste koning van de Franken
Simeon Stylites
De pilaarheilige
Willibrord
The missionary who went to Frisia
Boniface
A imporant pope and missionary
Charles Martel
Military leader
Charlemagne
The king who made up the Feudel system
Muhammad
Prophet of Islam
Leif Erikson
First Europian to discover America
Rollo
The first Norsemen to become a vassal of the french king
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