Geschiedenis chapter 5

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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