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Middle Ages

Era in Western Europe known as the Medieval Age (c. 500-1500), divided into Early, High, and Late Middle Ages

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Vikings

Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in northwestern Europe in the 8th-11th centuries

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Fief

Plot of land granted by a lord to a vassal

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Knights

Soldiers serving the king and noblemen

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Clergy

Group of religious officials authorized to conduct religious services

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Gothic

Architectural style with slender columns, pointed arches, and slimness

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Three-field system

Crop rotation leaving one field fallow each season

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Scholasticism

Theology and philosophy system in medieval European universities

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Black Death

Bubonic plague pandemic in Europe from 1346 to 1353

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Renaissance

Artistic movement inspired by classical Greece and Rome

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Humanism

Celebrating human individuality and focusing on secular matters

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Nation-states

Regions with a centralized government and common identity

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Vassal

Noble swearing loyalty to a lord in exchange for land

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Tithe

One-tenth tax for Church support

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Sacraments

Roman Catholic Church's important rituals

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Crusades

Religious wars fought by Christians to reclaim the Holy Land

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Guild

Association of merchants and craftsmen for mutual aid

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Feudalism

Landholding system based on land and service exchange

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Serfs

Bound workers tied to the land they worked on

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Chivalry

Code of knightly honor

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Canon law

Rules governing the Christian Church

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Reconquista

Christian reconquest of Spain

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Magna Carta

Charter establishing rule of law

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Banking

Business of protecting money for others

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Patrons

Supporters of artists

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Lay investiture

Appointment of religious officials by kings

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Lord

Landholder

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Manor

Self-contained world on a lord's land

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Castles

Fortified medieval buildings

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Holy Roman Empire

Roman Catholic empire in Europe

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Spanish Inquisition

Tribunal to eliminate heresy

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Vernacular

Everyday local language

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Parliament

Elected representatives making laws

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Great Schism

Split in Christianity

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Literacy

Ability to read and write

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Printing Press

Invention by Johannes Gutenberg

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Gregory the Great

Developed Roman Catholic Church's power

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Saladin

Muslim leader during the Crusades

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William the Conqueror

Norman Conquest victor in England

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Jan Hus

Heretic burned in Prague

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Thomas Aquinas

Famous scholastic thinker

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Francesco Petrarch

"Father of humanism"

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Thomas More

Humanist promoting free education

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Charlemagne

First Holy Roman Emperor

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Richard the Lion-Hearted

Leader during the Crusades

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Henry II (England)

Reformer of English Common Law

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Joan of Arc

Military leader in the Hundred Years' War

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Michelangelo

Italian Renaissance artist

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Author of "The Prince"

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Ferdinand & Isabella

Unified Spain and completed the Reconquista

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Duchess and Queen of France and England

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Genghis Khan

United Mongol tribes

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Louis IX (France)

King of France during a prosperous period

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Dante Alighieri

Writer of Divine Comedy

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Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance inventor and artist

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Desiderius Erasmus

Humanist leader

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Christopher Columbus

Explorer who discovered the New World

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Urban II

Pope during the Crusades

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Marco Polo

Explorer increasing European interest in Eastern trade

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John Wycliffe

Translator of the Bible

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Geoffrey Chaucer

English poet known for The Canterbury Tales

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Raphael

Italian Renaissance painter

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Christian bishop and theologian

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St

Founder of the Benedictine order