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Things can get kind of tricky if you don't understand the terms used to reference things during the middle ages. Here's a helpful list of terms to be the epitome of Medieval knowledge!
Medieval Europe Terms
- Feudalism - The political/military system of the Middle Ages where protection is provided in exchange for land
- Fief/fiefdom - A grant of land made to a vassal
- Manor/Manorialism - The basic unit or rural organization in the Middle Ages, an economic system with self-sufficient agricultural estates
- Lords - Aristocrat that has control of the fief
- Vassals - The receiver of the fief, which makes him indebted to the lord
- Serfs - Agrarian labor force which was bound to the land
- Peasant - Bottom of the Feudal system; had to pay rent for his land to his lord and pay a tax to the church called a tithe
- Great Schism of 1054 - Split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographic lines. led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
- 5 Pillars of Islamic Faith - Prayer, charity, pilgrimage, fasting, belief
- Caliphate - Religious and political leader of the Islamic faith after Muhammed
- Indulgences - Payment made to the Catholic Church to excuse one from sin
- Magna Carta- A collection of laws that limited the power of the king
- Hundred Year War - fight over the Land of Burgundy that belonged to an English king. French wants land back. French lose and cannot get English out of land
- Joan of Arc - used by French Dauphin to be crowned. received visions of saints during the Hundred Years War