Unit 5A Early Medieval Europe

Acculturation

• create a new society by blending cultural traditions.

• preserve original cultural traditions without change.

• reject all foreign cultural influences.

• maintain cultural traditions separately without blending.

The term Romans used for all the peoples beyond their northern borders.

• Germanic

• Celtic

• Slavic

• Hunnic

Not Romanized.

• Barbarian

• Roman

• Civilized

• Cultured

The injured were compensated according to their social status after a perceived wrong.

• Wergild

• Tithe

• Baliff

• Skald

The set of administrative structures associated with the government of the Catholic Church.

• Papacy

• Diocese

• Parish

• Feudalism

Various tribes adopted the Celtic language and culture.

• Germanization

• Romanization

• Hellenization

• Celtization

To believe in many gods.

• Monotheistic

• Manytheistic

• Polytheistic

• Solotheistic

Epic poems written to boast about one’s deeds and battle exploits.

• Wergild

• Haiku

• Skald

• Sonnet

The time used to refer to the British Isles after the fall of Rome.

• Dark Ages

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Industrial Age

A collection of practices that bound lesser lords to greater lords through land and privileges given in return for personal and military support.

• Feudalism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Monarchism