Vocabulary
Another name for servant
What is a vassal?
This person hired the army to protect the king.
What is the lord?
His hair did this
What is glowed in the sun?
The leader of the whole church
Who is the pope?
The code that defined a knight's life
What is chivalry?
The buying and selling of church offices
What is simony?
This person was a vassal to God.
What is the king?
Trial by ordeal was changed to this
What is trial by jury?
The only way that the king used religion in his favor/
What is the Divine Right Theory?
Knights were between what two groups on the feudal pyramid?
What are the lords and the serfs?
This completely ruined your eternal and social life!
What is excommunication?
How vassals were paid
What is by land (or fiefs)?
He was the ONE KING who opened these, and was not just worried about money!
What are schools?
This person advises the pope
Who is the cardinal?
These people are "knights" of today
Who are notable people who have made large and important contributions?
A piece of land loaned to a vassal
What is a fief?
This part of the feudal manor was used to give the fallow soil nutrients
What is waste?
He made this form of standardized money
What are silver coins?
What most popes were interested in before the great reform
What is power?
First, a young knight in training was called this
Speaking or acting in a way that goes against the Catholic Church
What is heresy?
Land that is on a "break" from crops, but will be used later in the rotation
What is fallow?
He always wore this over his armor
What is a bright blue cape?
This is the main difference between the church pyramid and the feudal pyramid
What is there is room for mobility in the church?
The next step of knight training was called this
What is a squire?