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476
Fall of Western Roman Empire
732
Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
800
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
1054
Great Schism
1096-1270
Crusades try to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims
1215
Signing of Magna Carta in England
1337-1453
Hundred Years' War
1347-1351
Black Death devastates Europe
Feudalism
A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
Manorial system
An economic system in the Middle Ages that was built around large estates called manors
Code of Chivalry
Social codes of knighthood that originated in France in the Middle Ages; associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honour and of courtly love; came to known as 'gentlemanly conduct.'
Charlemagne
King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate, though started an intellectual revival.
Holy Roman Empire
A medieval and early modern central European Germanic empire, which often consisted of hundreds of separate Germanic and Northern Italian states. In reality it was so decentralized that it played a role in perpetuating the fragmentation of central Europe.
Guilds
Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests
Battle of Tours
[732 CE] European victory over Muslims. It halted Muslim movement into Western Europe.
Scholasticism
This sought to synthesize the beliefs and values of Christianity with the logical rigor of Greek philosophy. Often associated with St. Thomas Aquinas.
Thomas Aquinas
(Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology
Crusades
A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.
Black Death
The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Vikings
Scandinavian peoples whose sailors raided Europe from the 700s through the 1100s
Longships
Narrow boats that allowed the vikings to sail down thin rivers, and pillage inland villages
Hundred Years' War
Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. (1337-1453)
Magna Carta
[1215 CE] a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John "Lackland" of England was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom
