Middle Ages2.0

Made official by a public ceremony; a man performed an act of homage to his lord; Loyalty to one's lord was the chief virtue

• vassal

• Serf

• Monk

• Great Schism

• the plague

A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

• Serf
• Vikings
• lord
• Monk
• the plague

A man who devotes his life to a religious group, often giving up all he owns.

• Monk
• Charlemagne
• Vikings
• Serf
• knights

Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia

• Vikings
• William the Conqueror
• Charlemagne
• Maya
• Serf

800 AD crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy. His palace was at Aachen in central Europe

• Charlemagne
• Monasteries
• William the Conqueror
• Mansa Musa
• Vikings

duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England

• William the Conqueror
• Great Schism
• Monasteries
• Atilla the Hun
• Charlemagne

Communities of monks

• Monasteries

• Convents

• Great Schism

• William the Conqueror

Communities of nuns

• Convents
• the plague
• houses
• Great Schism
• Monasteries

A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351

• sandwiches

• Hundred Years War

• The Black Plague

• Convents

• Great Schism

1054, Pope in Rome and Patriarch in Constantinople kick each other out of their churches. Christianity splits into Catholic and Greek Orthodox.

• Great Schism
• Guilds
• Hundred Years War
• the plague
• Convents