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At about 15, a boy who is training to become a knight reaches rank and remains there until he becomes a knight.
What is squire or page.
100
A boy who is learning a trade job from a master craftsman.
What is apprentice?
100
Germanic tribe that overtook and then united most of France and western Germany.
What are the Franks?
100
Arabic word meaning God. Part of the faith of Islam.
What is Allah?
100
The beginning of the Middle Ages.
What is the Dark Ages?
200
Religious workers including, bishops, priests, nuns, and monks.
What is clergy.
200
After seven years of working as an apprentice, a boy can now get paid for his work.
What is a journeyman?
200
A group that ook control of the Roman territory in North Africa.
What are the Vandals?
200
A religion founded on the life and teachings of Jesus. It was an important influence of the Middle Ages.
What is Christianity?
200
A job skill.
What is a trade?
300
The working people of the Middle Ages. They sometimes remained free, but often became serfs who were bound to the lord of the manor.
What is peasants?
300
Small communities of religious workers who lived and worked together?
What is monasteries?
300
Germanis tribe that conquered the southern part of England.
What are the Saxons?
300
A follower of the Islam religion.
What is a Muslim?
300
About 1,000 years from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (about 1450)
What is Middle Ages?
400
Religious workers who lived in monastaries and devoted their lives to prayer. They copied books by hand before the printing press was invented.
What are monks?
400
The set of rules followed by the knights for honorable behavior.
What is chivalry?
400
Medieval inhabitants of Spain and Portugal. Gernearlly referring to anyone of North African or Arab descent originally from what is now Morocco?
What are Moors?
400
A part of the world in which Christianity prevails.
What is Christendom?
400
The period from the fall of the Roman Empire (476) to the Renaissance (about 1450). Also called the Middle Ages.
What is Medieval?
500
Generallythought to mean anyone who lived beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Romans called the Scottish people this.
What are barbarians?
500
A present of money, goods or land given by the bride's father or her husband. A large one attracts rich landholders.
What is dowry?
500
A tribe of people who came from the Ukraine. They conquered most of Italy, Greece and the Western Balkans.
Who are the Ostrogoths?
500
A series of military conflicts waged by Christians against Muslim countries of the Middle East from 1095-1291. The Conflicts were sanctioned by the pope in the name of Christendom. The goal was to recapture Jerusalem from Muslim rule.
What is Crusades or "War of the Cross"?
500
Means "rebirth" and is the beginning of modern history. It is the period that spanned the 14th to 16th centuries and marks an era of revived learning.
What is the Renaissance?