chapter 13 vocabulary.
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| 248384186 | middle ages | the medieval period | 0 | |
| 248384187 | franks | germanic people who settled in the rome province of gaul | 1 | |
| 248384188 | monastery | a religeous community of men who have given up their posesions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship | 2 | |
| 248384189 | secular | concern with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 3 | |
| 248384190 | carolingian dynasty | a dynasty of frankish rulers lasting from 651 to 987 ad | 4 | |
| 248384191 | charlemagne | charles the great | 5 | |
| 248384192 | lord | land owner | 6 | |
| 248384193 | fief | granted land to land owners | 7 | |
| 248384194 | vassal | person recieving a fief | 8 | |
| 248384195 | knight | mounted horsemen who pleged to defend their lords' lands in exchange for fiefs | 9 | |
| 248384196 | serf | people who could not lawfelly leave the place where they were born | 10 | |
| 248384197 | manor | the lords estate | 11 | |
| 248384198 | tithe | church tax | 12 | |
| 248384199 | chivalry | a complex set of ideas | 13 | |
| 248384200 | tournament | mock battles | 14 | |
| 248384201 | troubadour | traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts of europe | 15 | |
| 248384202 | clergy | including bishops and priests fell under popes athority | 16 | |
| 248384203 | sacrament | important religious ceremonies | 17 | |
| 248384204 | canon law | church law | 18 | |
| 248384205 | Holy Roman Empire | first known as the roman empire of the german nation | 19 | |
| 248384206 | lay investiture | a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials | 20 |
