Groups of People
Warrior mounted on horseback.
What is a knight?
Association of people who have a common interest.
What is a guild?
To bring together
What is unite?
What is a monastery?
Sacred rites of Christianity, such as baptism and communion.
What is a sacrament?
People who are trained and ordained for religious services.
Who are clergy?
To move from one place to another in order to live there.
What is migrate?
Physical features of a place.
What is topography?
Self sufficient estate of a medieval lord.
What is a manor?
A person who is believed to be especially holy.
What is a saint?
A peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord.
What is a serf?
From the Latin term for 'Middle Age', related to the Middle Ages
What is medieval?
Order founded to fight heresy and to preach to ordinary people.
What is the mendicant order?
Estate granted by a lord to a vassal.
What is a fief?
What is pagan?
Someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion.
What is a missionary?
Practice of changing the use of fields over time.
What is crop rotation?
System of planting invented in the HIgh Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.
What is a three field system?
Religious community of women known as nuns.
What is a convent?
To switch from one belief system to another.
What is convert?
In medieval Europe, a nobleman who received land from other nobleman in return for his service.
What is a vassal?
Period between ancient times and modern times, roughly between 500 C.E. - 1500 C.E.
What is The Middle Ages?
Code of conduct in medieval Europe that required knights to be brave, loyal and honest.
What is Chivalry?
School, or groups of schools that trains scholars at the highest levels.
What is a university?
Large community of Christians spread across the world.
What is Christendom?