A period that lasted from about 500 to about 1500

A lords estate in feudal Europe

A medieval peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate

Able to produce enough for one's own needs

The eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half

Another name for the Middle Ages

A group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living

Grouping people by wealth or importance,rank or class

Movement up or down the social class ladder

Hard to change social classes;one in which the circumstances of your birth determine the cource of your life

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

Lords divide the land into manors,serfs farm the manors and serfs get protected by lords

A person of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to his king

A person granted land by a feudal lord in return for services

Arrangement between a lord and a vassal

King or Queen

Head of the Roman Catholic Church

Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages

A man who received honor and land in exchange for serving as a soldier

Central to Medieval Europeans lives,united western Europe during Middle Ages

Worldly;not connected to a church of religion

Religious officials

A privileged class holding hereditary titles

Exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey church law

A place previously known as Byzantium which became the capital of the Roman Empire or New Rome

The Cathedral of Holy wisdom in Constantinople,built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian

Powerful ruler of Byzantine Empire during the 500s he expanded the empire and built the Hagia Sophia

Code of laws organized by the Byzantine emperor in the 500s

A Cristian religion that developed out of early Cristianity in the Byzantine Empire

Plague spread by fleas on rats from Asia,killed every 1 in 3 people

A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Cristians to free the Holy Land from Muslin rule

The first ever attempt to limit the power ofthe British King,guaranteed all people certain rights

Large increases in wages and prices throughout Europe