Middle Ages Vocabulary

Feudal System

• Structure of society in which lords owned land (a fief) and a manor house in return for service to the king and had serfs work it

• The bubonic plague that struck Europe in the Middle Ages and killed half of the population

• Henry II created a unified system of law common to all of England in 1154

• Term for the peasants bound to work the lord’s land in the feudal system

Common Law

• Term for the leader of Russia-it comes from “Caesar”

• The bubonic plague that struck Europe in the Middle Ages and killed half of the population

• Henry II created a unified system of law common to all of England in 1154

• the series of military campaigns to conquer the “Holy Lands” controlled by various Muslim empires in the Middle Ages

Serfs

• Term for the leader of Russia-it comes from “Caesar”

• Term for the peasants bound to work the lord’s land in the feudal system

• Structure of society in which lords owned land (a fief) and a manor house in return for service to the king and had serfs work it

• the series of military campaigns to conquer the “Holy Lands” controlled by various Muslim empires in the Middle Ages

Crusades

• The bubonic plague that struck Europe in the Middle Ages and killed half of the population

• Term for the code knights were to live by which included doing the right thing, treating women right, and protecting his people

• The series of military campaigns to conquer the “Holy Lands” controlled by various Muslim empires in the Middle Ages

• Term for the peasants bound to work the lord’s land in the feudal system

Chivalry

• Term for the code knights were to live by which included doing the right thing, treating women right, and protecting his people

• Henry II created a unified system of law common to all of England in 1154

• Structure of society in which lords owned land (a fief) and a manor house in return for service to the king and had serfs work it

• Term for the leader of Russia-it comes from “Caesar”

Black Death

• Term for the code knights were to live by which included doing the right thing, treating women right, and protecting his people

• the series of military campaigns to conquer the “Holy Lands” controlled by various Muslim empires in the Middle Ages

• Term for the peasants bound to work the lord’s land in the feudal system

• The bubonic plague that struck Europe in the Middle Ages and killed half of the population

Czar

• Structure of society in which lords owned land (a fief) and a manor house in return for service to the king and had serfs work it

• Henry II created a unified system of law common to all of England in 1154

• Term for the leader of Russia-it comes from “Caesar”

• Term for the code knights were to live by which included doing the right thing, treating women right, and protecting his people