Significant Terms
What is the Domesday Book?
First census in Europe since Roman times.
The clergy
What is the First Estate?
Territory settled by Oleg the Viking in the tenth century.
What is Kievan Rus?
A man who served a lord in a military capacity.
What is a vassal?
A peasant legally bound to the land who had to provide labor services, pay rents, and be subject to the lord's control.
What is a serf?
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
A multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages.
Townspeople and peasants.
What is the Third Estate?
Contest where knights could show their fighting skills.
What is a tournament?
The unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal.
What is the feudal contract?
Wealthy, powerful landowner.
What is a patrician?
What is the Norman Conquest?
The overthrow of the government of England in 1066 by forces under the leadership of William the Conqueror.
Nobility
What is the Second Estate?
He defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087)
Who is William the Conqueror?
The ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold.
What is chivalry?
Agricultural estate that a lord ran and peasants worked.
What is a manor?
What is the Magna Carta?
Gave written recognition to the mutual rights and obligations between kings and vassals.
A social or political class.
What is an estate?
Converted the Eastern Slavs to Orthodox Christianity.
Who is Cyril?
A grant of land made to a vassal.
What is a fief?
Uniform legal system based on court decisions and on customs and usage rather than on written law codes.
What is common law?
What is Parliament?
Representative government that emerged in 13th century England. It was composed of two knights from every county, two people from every town, and all the nobles and bishops throughout England.
The middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people.
What is the bourgeoisie?
Member of the heavily armored cavalry.
What is a knight?
Political and social order that developed during the Middle Ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service.
What is Feudalism?
A member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD.
What is Magyar?