7651992067 | Byzantine Empire | was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople | 0 | |
7651992068 | Orthodox Christianity | refers to the set of doctrines which were believed by the early Christians. A series of ecumenical councils | 1 | |
7652038821 | Justinian's Code | collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from ad 529 to 565 | 2 | |
7652040956 | Hagia Sophia | was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica church, then later changed to a mosque then a museum | 3 | |
7652044541 | Roman Catholic Church | has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity | 4 | |
7652049742 | Great Schism of 1054 | vent that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches | 5 | |
7652049743 | Vladimir | common Russian name that is way too vague thx Mr. Stauffer | 6 | |
7652051886 | Battle of Tours | was fought by Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles Martel against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi | 7 | |
7652053363 | Charlemagne | as King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united much of Europe during the early Middle Ages | 8 | |
7652053364 | Holy Roman Empire | was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 | 9 | |
7652055534 | Vikings | people who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries | 10 | |
7652057060 | Feudalism | was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries | 11 | |
7652057061 | Nobles | is a social class, normally ranked immediately under royalty | 12 | |
7652057062 | Vassals | a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch | 13 | |
7652060547 | Serfs (peasants) | A member of the lowest feudal class, legally bound to a landed estate and required to perform labor for the lord of that estate | 14 | |
7652060548 | Fiefs | was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fee | 15 | |
7652060549 | manors | an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron | 16 | |
7652065158 | Three-field system | a regime of crop rotation that was used in medieval and early-modern Europe | 17 | |
7652065159 | Code of Chivalry | is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220 | 18 | |
7652068827 | Primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn child. | 19 | |
7652071606 | Hanseatic League | was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe | 20 | |
7652071607 | Crusades | were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period | 21 | |
7652074524 | Heresy | is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs | 22 | |
7652076278 | Pope Innocent III | was one of the most powerful and influential popes. He exerted a wide influence over the Christian states of Europe, claiming supremacy over all of Europe's kings | 23 | |
7652077909 | Scholasticism | the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities | 24 | |
7652077910 | Black Death | was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia | 25 | |
7652080671 | William the Conqueror | was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087 | 26 | |
7652083328 | Magna Carta | is a charter to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons | 27 | |
7652083329 | Joan of Arc | is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War | 28 | |
7652086163 | Hundred Years' War | was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet | 29 | |
7652091603 | Isabella & Ferdinand of Spain | was Queen of Castile. She was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their marriage became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson | 30 | |
7652091604 | Spanish Inquisition | was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition | 31 | |
7652094670 | Ivan the Terrible | was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then "Tsar of All the Russias" until his death in 1584 | 32 |
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