Early Middle Ages

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  1. 3. Political system of government based on the granting of land
  2. 4. sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic Church
  3. 6. an ethnic group centered in present-day Hungary. Stole people from towns for slavery
  4. 10. served as mayor of the palace for Frankish kingdom. Halted the last great Muslim advance into Europe (Battle of Tours, 732)
  5. 12. having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters;nonreligious
  6. 13. political founder of the kingdom of the Franks. His kingdom was the most powerful in Gaul. One of the first Germanic kings to convert to Christianity
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  1. 1. king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor. United peoples, conducted a long series of successful military campaigns, spread Christianity, made effective political procedures, and supported cultural renewal
  2. 2. European noble who served as a mounted warrior
  3. 5. exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church law
  4. 7. a peasant bound to the lord's land
  5. 8. an estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty
  6. 9. a lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord
  7. 11. economic system that functions by people working the land and paying taxes