TCI Middle ages vocab

the leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 C.E., who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire

• Christianity

• Charlemagne

• Julius Casear

• fief

to continue in the same way

• quit

• stop

• don't be suspicious...

• maintain

land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service

• fief

• purchase

• house

• manor

the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection

• king

• feudalism

• knight

• queen

the period of time during which a king or other monarch rules

• rain

• knight

• term

• reign

the medieval knight’s code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women

• chivalry

• coward

• fief

• jester

the use or purpose of something

• knight

• function

• useless

• obsolete

a peasant who could not leave the lord’s land on which he or she was born and worked

• beach

• serf

• shells

• knight

the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

to continue to exist

• war

• nag

• survive

• cease