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| 11221727842 | Serf | A peasant who is bounded to the land he or she works. | 0 | |
| 11221737601 | Benefice | in medieval Europe, a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal. | 1 | |
| 11221747282 | Reconquista(Reconquest) | The recapture of Muslim-held lands in Spain by Christian forces; it was complete in 1492. | 2 | |
| 11221753137 | Hanseatic League | although Europe experienced an unfavorable balance of trade with the East, several trading cities in northern Europe capitalized on regional commerce that formed this league. By the 13th century, this trade association was active in the Baltic and North Sea regions. | 3 | |
| 11221756874 | William the Conqueror | in 1066, the Duke of Normandy, arrived in England from his Normandy province. Rather than following a complex structure of lords and vassals, he imposed a feudal structure that required all vassals to owe their allegiance directly to the monarchy. | 4 | |
| 11221763224 | The Crusades | between Western and Eastern worlds between Christianity and Islam to try to retake the Holy Land from the Seljuk Turks, Western Europeans were exposed to the larger and more prosperous urban areas of the Byzantine Empire. These wars introduced the West to sugarcane, spices and luxury goods such as porcelain, glassware, and carpets from the Eastern world. Trade between east and west increased, although unbalanced because the East didn't want Western goods. | 5 | |
| 11221766642 | Chivalry | a knight's code of honor in medieval Europe. | 6 | |
| 11221769680 | Excommunication | the practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices. | 7 | |
| 11221769681 | Feudalism | was an economic, political and social system. Throughout most areas of Western Europe, nobles or landlords offered benefices, or privileges, to vassals in exchange for military service in the lord's army or agricultural labor on the lord's estate. | 8 | |
| 11221784932 | 4th Crusade | merchants from Venice expressed their intense rivalry with Eastern merchants by looting the city of Constantinople. | 9 |
