The Roman Catholic Church
A _____ leads services and instructs people how to live and worship.
Priest
This person tended his lord’s fields and could not leave the manor without his lord’s permission.
Serf
He was the first Frankish king.
Clovis
Castles served as both homes and _____ fortresses.
Military
Henry II developed England’s _____ system by taking control over cases that had been handled locally before his time.
Legal
This person is the patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope
This was a person received a portion of a fief in exchange for service to a lord.
Vassal
He was a mayor of the palace who united the Franks and defeated the Muslims at Tours.
Charles Martel
English ______ started a revolt that led to the signing of the Magna Carta.
Nobles
The influence of the Magna Carta can be seen in the US Constitution and Bill of these.
Rights
This leader made an alliance with the Roman Catholic Church that affected politics and religion for several centuries.
Pepin the Short
Under the feudal system, these people had much power and peasants had little freedom.
Lords
This man was crowned emperor of a revived Western Roman Empire.
Charlemagne
This king was unpopular because he imposed heavy taxes and he abused power.
King John
A trial by this used local people and their knowledge of a case to help decide the outcome of a trial.
Jury
The Benedictine Rule was a set of rules for these people to follow.
Monks/Nuns
A boy pursuing knighthood could become a page when he was ______ years old.
Seven
This leader gave conquered Lombard lands to leaders of Roman Catholic Church.
Pepin the Short
At age fourteen, a page became a squire, a servant to a knight. He could become a knight at this age.
Twenty-one
Tying an accused person up and throwing him into deep water to see if he would sink or float was an example of trial by this.
Ordeal
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that this sacrement removes original sin.
Baptism
Famine, plague, war, the growth of towns, and the Crusades all helped to weaken feudalism by limiting the power of this group of people?
Nobles
This leader inherited Charlemagne’s empire; divided it among his sons
Louis the Pious
Significant accomplishment of Charlemagne’s reign included expanding the borders of the Frankish Empire and this.
Education
William the Conqueror began a new royal line called this.
The Normans