Unit 5 Vocabulary
______1. Crusades
______2. Jerusalem
______3. Manor
______4. Feudalism
______5. Vassal
______6. Serf
______7. Peasant
______8. Lord
______9. Fief
______10. Excommunication
______11. Charlemagne
______12. Pope Gregory VII
______13. King Henry IV
______14. Black Death
______15. Medieval
A) A peasant bound to the lord’s land in Medieval Europe
B) A holy city for Christians, Jews, and Muslims; the sight of the First Crusade
C) Leader of the Catholic Church in the 11th Century that insisted the Church should be the only force choosing Church officials
D) A lord’s estate that included one or more villages and the surrounding lands
E) A series of wars from the 1000s through the 1200s in which European Christians tried to win control of the Holy Land from Muslims
F) Refers to exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to follow Church law
G) The time period in history between ancient and modern times; Middle Ages
H) Those people that worked on a lord’s manor farming the land in exchange for guaranteed food, housing, and land
I) Holy Roman Emperor from Germany who wanted the right to grant people with offices in the Catholic Church; as a result he is excommunicated from the Church
J) Loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord
K) An epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 1300s and kills as many as 25 million people
L) Also known as Charles the Great; strives to create a united Christian Europe; is crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD
M) An estate (piece of land) granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty
N) A lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord
O) In the Feudal System, these people were powerful leaders who had land and presided over lesser peoples such as vassals and knights.