Dawson Middle Ages Vocabulary

Being kicked out of the Catholic Church! (Very severe punishment!)

• Excommunication

• Heresy

• Monks & Nuns

• Church

Disease that killed millions in the Middle Ages. (Also called Bubonic Plague or Black Death)

• Heresy

• Church

• Black Plague

• Castle

Religious buildings attached to the church.

• Medieval

• Chivalry

• Church

• Abbey/Monastery

Poorest; lowest class; took care of the land and gave most crops to the Lord.

• Serfs

• Middle Ages

• Fief

• Vassal

The most powerful influence on all people in Europe at the time (Catholic)

• Church

• Fief

• Excommunication

• Abbey

Code of behavior the knights lived by

• Heresy

• Monastery

• Medieval

• Chivalry

Religious people who worked in abbeys and monasteries

• Monks/Nuns

• Castle

• Heresy

• Church

10% tax all people in the Middle Ages paid to the church

• Heresy

• Feudalism

• Tithe

• Lords

Soldiers who lived by the Code of Chivalry (gentleman & brave)

Start as a page, the squire, then ______.

• Knight

• Lord

• Monk

• Serf

Someone who is given land in exchange for a promise of service and loyalty to a greater lord

• Vassal

• Lord

• Fief

• Castle