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Better Middle Ages test 6j (CBS)

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  • Nobles are ____ _____ who in turn leased land to lesser nobles called ____
    Land lords and vassals
  • Who were men who went into the wilderness to avoid the temptation of the world and lived a godly life of denial and seclusion
    Ascethics
  • _________ was 90% of Europe’s people who did all the work.
    Serfs and peasants
  • Who was a Frankish statesman and military leader
    Charles Martel
  • ______ was the king the of the Franks from 752 until his death and the younger son of Charles Martel and first of the ________
    Pepin the Short, Carolingian
  • _____reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned as emperor by _________
    Charlemagne pope Leo III
  • What was the guilt or innocence thing to tell if you were telling the truth called
    The ordeal or trial by fire
  • What oath was the code of chivalry?
    Oath of honorable behavior taken by knights
  • At age 14-served a knight learned to use a weapon ride a horse etc.
    Squire
  • At age 7 -learned manners in the lords manor
    Page
  • What was a varying complex of land that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe
    The Holy Roman Empire
  • __________a covered walkway-the cloistered life
    Cloister
  • ___________latin for bother-traveling monks bounded by St Francis of Assisi - the Franciscan friars
    Friars
  • What were the soldiers of the Middle Ages and were considered to be vassals
    Knights
  • The lord’s estate was called a _______. The lord lived in the _______ ___________.
    Manor and manor house.
  • Monks took oaths of _____________
    Poverty, chastity and obedience
  • What is fief or feud?
    Land
  • __________is Greek for alone. A member of the monastery,
    Monk
  • What were they given if they became a knight?
    Spurs and the title of sir
  • At age 21, a squire took the _________to become a __________
    Accolade and knight
  • Who was the head of a monastery?
    An Abbott
  • __________is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who had also received the title of Emperor of the Romans from the Pope
    The Holy Roman Emperor
  • Who set up the first monastery?
    St Anthony
  • What was family identification?
    The coast of arms
  • What was the system where the strong protected the weak?
    Feudalism
  • __________took oaths of silence
    Trappist monks
  • At age 7 -learned manners in the lords manor
    Page
  • What is a Feudal contract?
    An agreement between the land lord and a vassal based on mutual obligation
  • _____ was considered to be the founding figure of the European Middle Ages
    Charles Martel
  • Who was the oldest son of Pepin the Short
    Charlemagne
  • Who is called the father of Europe
    Charlemagne
  • What were built on safest part of the estate and built so it was hard to attack and easy to defend
    Castles
  • Who is a monastic who developed rules for the monastic life?
    A Benedict
  • Who is at the top of the feudalism pyramid?
    The king
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