PEOPLE AND SOCIETY
He was the leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 C.E., who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire
Who is Charlemagne?
It's the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection
What is feudalism?
It's a deadly contagious disease caused by bacteria and spread by fleas; also called the Black Death
What is the bubonic plague?
It's the city on the eastern edge of Europe, which Constantine made the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 C.E.
What is Constantinople?
It's a sacred rite of the Christian religion
What is a Sacrament?
Its the the medieval knight's code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women
What is Chivalry?
It's a peasant who could not leave the lord's land on which he or she was born and worked
What is a serf?
It's the percentage that you would have of dying if you had septicemic plague.
What is 100%
It's the name for the Eastern Roman Empire, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia; it lasted from about 500 to 1453 C.E.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
It's a person who holds beliefs that are contrary to a set of religious teachings
What is a heretic?
It's the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking
What is natural law?
It's land land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service
What is a fief?
It's a person who works for a master in a trade or craft in return for training
What is an apprentice?
It's the Christian religion that developed out of early Christianity in the Byzantine Empire
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
It's the body of people, such as priests, who perform the sacred functions of a church
What is the clergy?
It is a body of rulings made by judges or very old traditional laws that become part of a nation's legal system
What is common law?
It was who owned land to have peasants work on.
What is a lord?
It's an organization of people in the same craft or trade
What is a guild?
It's in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the bishop of an important city.
What is a patriarch?
It's the Christian church headed by the pope in Rome
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
It's the legal concept that an accused person cannot be jailed indefinitely without being charged with a crime
What is Habeas Corpus?
It's what a house or mansion with a large plot of land that had serfs and knights was known as.
What is a manor?
It's a written grant of rights and privileges by a ruler or government to a community, class of people, or organization
What is a charter?
It's what the city of Constantinople was known as.
What is a trading hub?
It's to cause a person to suffer because of his or her beliefs
What is to persecute?