Middle Ages Vocabulary

A period that lasted from AD 500 to 1500

• monks

• monasteries

• Middle Ages

• Benedict

a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land

• fief

• peasant

• vassal

• noble

system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals

• communism

• feudalism

• capitalism

• monarchy

workers who were tied to the land on which they lived and farmed

• knights

• vassals

• serfs

• lords

a person who lives and works on a farm that he or she does not own

• peasant

• knight

• king

• viking

Vocabulary: A grant of land given to a vassal

• Fief

• Feudal Contract

• Chivalry

• Vassal

Vocabulary: Social and Political system of the middle ages

• Fief

• Feudalism

• Feudal Contract

• Chivalry

Vocabulary: A code of ethics all knights were expected to follow

• Fief

• Feudal contract

• Chivalry

• Vassal

Which Church official was the highest authority in the Church?

• Bishop

• Archbishop

• Pope

• Abbott

Which group was the highest in the social hierarchy?

• Knights

• Serfs/Peasants

• Kings/Queens

• Lords/Ladies