vocab
Ancient history
Time in history up to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D
eras
blocks of time
crusades
A series of military conflicts waged by Christians against the Muslims
Germanic tribes
Included the vandals, Lombards, Alamanni, Goths, Franks and Burgundians Known as barbarians
medieval
The period from the fall of the Roman empire 476 to the renaissance about 1450
Barbarians
Generally thought to mean anyone who lived beyond the borders
circa
Referring generally to an event on a timeline about or around a specific date
dark ages
The beginning of the middle ages
knight
Generally sons of Lords who train to defend the manor and the kingdom
monasteries
Small communities of religious workers who lived and worked together
Bubonic plague/ black plague
Plague caused by bacterium
millenium
1000 yrs
satire
The use of humor, irony or exaggeration
manor
The land owned by a noble, often consisting of a castle, a small village and farmland
monks
Religious workers who lived in monastaries devoting their life to prayer and copied books by hand
chivalry
A set of rules filled by the knights for honorable behavior
christendom
The part of the world in which Christianity prevails
chronology
the order of dates in which events take place
synthesize
to combine or simplify things
normans
groups of Vikings who settled in Normandy, France they adopted the French language
nuance
There is a subtle difference in meaning more layered/complicated
clergy
Religious workers including Bishops, Priests, Nuns, and Monks
feudalism
The system that grants Land to nobles in exchange for loyalty to their king
mitigate
lessen or reduce the amount of
peasants
Working people of middle ages sometimes free but often become serfs bound to Lords of the manor