SS Lesson 4 Feudalism Vocab

to continue to exist

• live

• survive

• struggle

• thrive

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

• democracy

• communism

• socialism

• feudalism

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

• Charlemagne

• Henry VIII

• William Wallace

• Martin Luther

to continue in the same way

• unchangeable

• stagnation

• plateau

• maintain

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

• indentured servant

• slave

• serf

• houseworker

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

• farm

• field

• landscape

• fief

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

• code of the knights

• chivalry

• code of Hammurabi

• gallantry

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

• reign

• rule

• sovereignty

• dominion

the use or purpose of something

• useful

• function

• task

• basis

a series of actions that produce a certain result

• procedure

• operation

• undertaking

• process