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| 233748968 | middle ages | time period between 500 to 1500 ce | 0 | |
| 233748969 | the early middle ages | 500 to 1000 ce | 1 | |
| 233748970 | the high middle ages | 1000 to 1500 ce | 2 | |
| 233748971 | feudalism | a complex system of political and military loyalities that linked lord together | 3 | |
| 233748972 | manoralism | an economic system in which peasants were tied to the land to supply labor to their lords | 4 | |
| 233748973 | the franks | looked like the group that would unite all of western europe under one king | 5 | |
| 233748974 | clovis | ruler from 481 and 511 | 6 | |
| 233748975 | carolingian family | clovis's descendants lost control of the frankish realm to charles mantel of the carolingian family | 7 | |
| 233748976 | charlemagne | conquered most of mainland western europe, temporarily unifying it | 8 | |
| 233748977 | vikings | raiders from scandinavia | 9 | |
| 233748978 | missi dominici | the sovereign's envoy | 10 | |
| 233748979 | manorialism | both economic and political obligations between lord and peasant laborers | 11 | |
| 233748980 | serfs | people who lived on and were tied to self-sufficent agricultural estates (manors) | 12 | |
| 233748981 | barter | the exchange of goods directly | 13 | |
| 233748982 | canon law | rules for behavior that first filled the void of political authority | 14 | |
| 233748983 | excommunicate | seperate them from the church and its sacraments | 15 | |
| 233748984 | interdict | excommunicated all people within a ruler's realm | 16 | |
| 233748985 | the holy roman empire | established in 962, remained an area of england that was feudalist until 1450 | 17 | |
| 233748986 | limited government | limits on the power of the ruler | 18 | |
| 233748987 | magna carta | a document that nobles forced king john of england to sign the guarnteed rights to nobility | 19 | |
| 233748988 | parliments | were created to give nobility to and the clergy a voice in policymaking | 20 | |
| 233748989 | the hundred year war | during the 14th and 15th century between the king of france and england over the territories the english king had in france | 21 | |
| 233748990 | crusades | series of attacks in the middle east | 22 | |
| 233748991 | saladin | muslim general | 23 | |
| 233748992 | hanseatic league | used to facilitate trade as more towns purchased charters from kings and severed their feudal ties to lords on rural manors | 24 | |
| 233748993 | guilds | associations of people who worked in the same occupation | 25 | |
| 233748994 | usury | the charging of interest for the use of money | 26 | |
| 233748995 | ghettos | small urban areas where jews were put | 27 | |
| 233748996 | progoms | anti-semitic mob action | 28 | |
| 233748997 | scholasticism | the attempt to reconcile the beliefs and values of christianity with the logic reasoning of greek philosophy | 29 | |
| 233748998 | vernacular language | important development in medieval writing, around the 13th century | 30 | |
| 233748999 | renaissance | rebirth | 31 | |
| 233749000 | byzantine empire | the time period where the western roman empire fell and the eastern roman empire remained for the next 1,000 years | 32 | |
| 233749001 | sasanid empire | a major political threat to the byzantine empire | 33 | |
| 233749002 | heretical | false, often to be considered dangerous | 34 | |
| 233749003 | caesaropapism | caesar and the pope | 35 | |
| 233749004 | justinian | important byzantine emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 ce | 36 | |
| 233749005 | hagia sophia | church of holy wisdom | 37 | |
| 233749006 | theodora | had a great influence over her husband, justinian, who followed her advice | 38 | |
| 233749007 | cyrillic | writing system developed by two byzantine missionaires | 39 |
