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| 101236808 | Middle Ages | 500-1500 | 0 | |
| 101236809 | medieval times | 500-1500 | 1 | |
| 101236810 | Early Middle Ages | 500-1000 | 2 | |
| 101236811 | High Middle Ages | 1000-1500 | 3 | |
| 101236812 | feudalism | Complex system of political and military loyalties | 4 | |
| 101236813 | manoralism | economic system in which peasants were tied to the land to supply labor to their lords | 5 | |
| 101236814 | Franks | Group that dominated Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries | 6 | |
| 101236815 | Clovis | First Frankish king, ruler from 481-511; converted to Christianity | 7 | |
| 101236816 | Carolingian family | Powerful Frankish family | 8 | |
| 101236817 | Charlemagne | conquered most of western Europe | 9 | |
| 101236818 | Vikings | Attackers from Scandinavia, began fighting in 793 continued for two centuries | 10 | |
| 101236819 | missi dominici | sovereign's envoys, checked on abuses of power by local lords | 11 | |
| 101236820 | serfs | people who were tied to self-sufficient agricultural estates (manors) | 12 | |
| 101236821 | barter | exchange of goods directly | 13 | |
| 101236822 | Benedictine Rule | rules for monks written in 540 | 14 | |
| 101236823 | canon law | rules for behavior | 15 | |
| 101236824 | excommunicate | separate from church and sacraments | 16 | |
| 101236825 | interdict | excommunicated all people within a realm | 17 | |
| 101236826 | Holy Roman Empire | established in 962 | 18 | |
| 101236827 | Magna Carta | guaranteed rights to nobility | 19 | |
| 101236828 | parliaments | gave nobility and clergy a voice | 20 | |
| 101236829 | Hundred Years War | fought between France and England during 14th and 15th centuries | 21 | |
| 101236830 | Crusades | series of attacks into the Middle East | 22 | |
| 101236831 | Saladin | Muslim general who recaptured land during 12th century | 23 | |
| 101236832 | Hanseatic League | league with cities in northern Germany and souther Scandinavia | 24 | |
| 101236833 | guilds | associations of people who worked in the same occupation | 25 | |
| 101236834 | usury | charging of interest for the use of money | 26 | |
| 101236835 | ghettos | small urban areas | 27 | |
| 101236836 | pogroms | anti-Semitic mob actions | 28 | |
| 101236837 | scholasticism | reconciliation between beliefs and values of Christianity with logical reason | 29 | |
| 101236838 | vernacular languages | common people's language | 30 | |
| 101236839 | Renaissance | 15th-16th century rebirth of culture | 31 | |
| 101237032 | caesaropapism | Religious and political power concentrated in the hands of the emperor | 32 | |
| 101237033 | Justinian | Most important early Byzantine emperor (527-565BCE) | 33 | |
| 101237034 | Hagia Sophia | Church of Holy Wisdom | 34 | |
| 101237035 | Theodora | Empress of Byzantine, wife of Justinian | 35 | |
| 101237036 | Cyrillic writing system | Eastern Orthodox writing created by Byzantine missionaries | 36 | |
| 101237392 | Monsoons | Alternating winds that influence wet and dry seasons around the Indian Ocean | 37 | |
| 101237393 | Stateless society | Common form of social interaction in Africa with no hierarchal government | 38 | |
| 101237394 | Ghana | Western Sudanese state started in the 3rd century | 39 | |
| 101237395 | Mali | Western Sudanese state started in the 13th century | 40 | |
| 101237396 | Songhay | Western Sudanese state started in the 15th century | 41 | |
| 101237397 | Hausa | State that became powerful east of Songhay during the 15th century | 42 | |
| 101237398 | Sundiata | Lion-king leader of Mali | 43 | |
| 101237399 | Griots | Master storytellers of western AFrica | 44 | |
| 101237400 | Swahili Coast | Coast of East Africa | 45 | |
| 101237401 | Great Zimbabwe | Powerful city-state in Swahili | 46 | |
| 101237402 | Ethiopia | Christian state in Swahili | 47 |
