The Middle Ages: Europe and Japan

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  1. 3. Men that devoted their lives to the church by praying, meditating, and running institutions
  2. 6. A man who received honor and land in exchange for serving a lord as a soldier.
  3. 8. religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus
  4. 10. leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire
  5. 12. one group of Germanic tribes who flooded into the Roman Empire and later revolted, weakening the empire
  6. 14. servant to the knight; second stage in becoming a knight
  7. 15. Communities of monks who devoted lives to the church
  8. 16. Japanese noble in Feudal Japan. the military commanders and the actual rulers of Japan for many centuries
  9. 17. economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection
  10. 20. Wealthy landowners in Feudal Japan
  11. 21. King of the Franks and Holy Roman emperor in Western Europe. Built a massive empire.
  12. 24. "free" person who does farm work for wealthy landowners
  13. 25. ritual suicide in Japan demonstrated courage and was a means to restore family honor
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  1. 1. Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia
  2. 2. Byzantine emperor; he reunited the parts of the Roman empire, simplified Roman laws with a new code of laws
  3. 4. the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.
  4. 5. Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half. Capital is Constantinople
  5. 7. land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service
  6. 8. Roman Emperor between 306 and 337 Legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire and moved the capital to Byzantium
  7. 9. a boy servant or attendant, the first step in becoming a knight
  8. 10. medieval knight's code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women
  9. 11. a wandering samurai who had no lord or master
  10. 13. peasant who could not leave the lord's land on which he or she was born and worked
  11. 14. Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.
  12. 18. provided land and protection to their vassals. Loyal to the King. Powerful land owners.
  13. 19. a Germanic tribe that conquered present-day France and neighboring lands in the 400s.
  14. 22. A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables
  15. 23. a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he or she owes allegiance and loyalty