Medieval Europe

related to the Middle Ages, the time period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. in Europe

• Dark Age

• Classical Period

• Pre-Columbian

• Medieval

the early middle ages, a difficult time during which people focused on survival

• Dark Age

• Classical Period

• Pe-Columbian

• Golden Age

a political and social system in which a powerful lord offered protection to a vassal in return for military service

• federalism

• feudalism

• medieval

• excommunication

people from present-day France that first began feudalism

• Visigoths

• Romans

• Franks

• Vandals

a grant of land made to a vassal

• fief

• province

• guild

• homage

special honor or respect shown publicly

• allegiance

• chivalry

• guild

• homage

loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause

• allegiance

• chivalry

• guild

• homage

the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold

• allegiance

• chivalry

• vassal

• homage

young nobleman acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself

• apprentice

• squire

• vassal

• serf

a man who served a lord in a military capacity

• apprentice

• squire

• vassal

• serf