christian societies Flashcards

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