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| 11141946928 | Gudrid and Thorfinn Karlsefni | A couple originally from Iceland who settled in about 1000 in Greenland and then Canada and later returned to Iceland. Had a brief settlement in N. America but ran into problems with the Indians |  | 0 |
| 11141971741 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half. Constantine move capital. |  | 1 |
| 11141988575 | patriarch | Highest church official in Eastern Roman Church |  | 2 |
| 11141994395 | pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church in the west |  | 3 |
| 11142004172 | Justinian Corpus of civil law | He simplified Western Roman law into the Justinian code. Basis for western legal system |  | 4 |
| 11142019563 | plague | (n.) an easily spread disease causing a large number of deaths; a widespread evil; struck the Byzantine empire during Justianś reign and medieval Europe |  | 5 |
| 11142030307 | iconoclasts | people who opposed the use of icons (pictures) in worship of Jesus and Mary (violated 2nd commandment). Part of a greater argument with the western Roman church that led to the Great Schism |  | 6 |
| 11142042620 | Frankish Kingdom | The homeland of the Franks, including much of modern-day France, Germany, and the land in between. |  | 7 |
| 11142047155 | Wergeld | man payment-Compensatory payment for death or injury set in many barbarian law codes. Put a value on human life (pregnant women had higher value)-meant to prevent endless killing |  | 8 |
| 11142087681 | war-band | The most important social unit among Germanic-speaking peoples. In times of war, warriors formed bands behind a leader, who gave them horses, armor, a place to live, and a share of plunder. |  | 9 |
| 11142095031 | Merovingian Dynasty | a Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750-clovis converted to Christianity |  | 10 |
| 11142106901 | Carolingian Dynasty | Important aristocratic family that overthrew the Merovingian rulers-most powerful ruler was Charlemagne |  | 11 |
| 11142129268 | Vikings | one of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western Europe from the eighth through the tenth century. |  | 12 |
| 11142136342 | Longboat | Mighty warship that could weigh up to 20 tons yet be used in 3 feet of water-sail or oars-fastest in world at the time |  | 13 |
| 11142162798 | Danelaw | Northeastern region of England ruled by the Vikings (Scandinavians) between 866-954 |  | 14 |
| 11142179754 | The Vineland Sagas | Erik the Red´s sagas-in Old Norse-recounts events around 1000 | 15 | |
| 11142195263 | skaelings | Viking name for Native Americans in Canada and main where the Scandinavians had settlements |  | 16 |
| 11142213620 | Bjarni Herjolfsson | The first European, according to The Vinland Sagas, to sail to the Americas, most likely sometime in the 990s. | 17 | |
| 11142215251 | Rus | Origin of the word Russia, thought to refer to Vikings who settled the region in the ninth century C.E. |  | 18 |
| 11142233985 | Slavs | A people from the forests north of the Black Sea, ancestors of many peoples in Eastern Europe today. |  | 19 |
| 11142240079 | principality of Kiev | A new state that began as a trading post on the Dnieper River and evolved into a principality around 900. | 20 |
