Vocabulary - Early Middle Ages

period that came after the Western Roman Empire fell; 500-1500

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Ice Age

• Reformation

means "middle age" in Latin; refers to the culture of the Middle Ages

• purge

• medieval

• mediocre

• Mad Max

brilliant warrior and strong leader of the Franks

• Charlemagne

• The Hammer

• Suleyman

• Mansa Musa

follower of a polytheistic religion

• polygon

• pragmatic

• polytheistic

• Pagan

large community of Christians spread across the world

• Christendom

• denomination

• globalization

• revival

noble who received land from other noblemen in return for their services

• fief

• vassal

• recipiant

• squatter

estate (land) granted by a lord to a vassal

• fief

• parcel

• acreage

• manor

knights code of conduct by which to live by

• Chivalry

• Ten Commandments

• Manners

• culture

agricultural estate of a medieval lord

• manor

• castle

• pasture

• crop share

not pertaining to the Church; non-Church

• secular

• clandestine

• scientific

• prominade