Chapter 8 (AP World History) Flashcards

7889222548	Aristocracy	a class of hereditary nobility in medieval Europe; a warrior class who shared a distinctive lifestyle based on the institution of knighthood, although there were social divisions within the group based on extremes of wealth	0
7889239242	Demesne	the part of a manor retained under the direct control of the lord and worked by the serfs as part of their labor services	1
7889248847	Fief	a landed estate granted to a vassal in exchange for military services	2
7889253667	Manor	an agricultural estate operated by a lord and worked by peasants who performed labor services and paid various rents and fees to the lord in exchange for protection and sustenance	3
7889271724	Missi dominici	officials sent by some Frankish kings and emperors to supervise provincial administration.	4
7889285724	Monogamy	the practice of being married to one person at a time	5
7889290217	Primogeniture	an inheritance practice in which the eldest son receives all or the largest share of the parents' estate	6
7889331425	Scriptoria	writing rooms for the copying of manuscripts in medieval monasteries	7
7889337690	Serf	a peasant who is bound to the land and obliged to provide labor services and pay various rents and fees to the lord; considered unfree but not a slave because serfs could not be bought and sold	8
7889351719	Subinfeudation	the practice whereby a lord's greatest vassals subdivided their fiefs and had vassals of their own, which in turn subdivided their fiefs, and so on down to simple knights, whose fiefs were too small to subdivide	9
7889364997	Tithe	a portion of one's harvest or income, paid by medieval peasants to the village church	10
7889381799	Vassalage	the granting of a fief in exchange for providing military services to the lord and fulfilling certain other obligations such as appearing at the lord's court when summoned and making a payment on the knighting of the lord's eldest son	11