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- 5. Also known as the medieval period, the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD and the beginning of the Renaissance in the fourteenth century.
- 6. 800 AD crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy. His palace was at Aachen in central Europe
- 7. a Germanic tribe that conquered present-day France and neighboring lands in the 400s
- 9. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
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- 1. A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
- 2. A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
- 3. In feudal Europe, a person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals
- 4. land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service
- 5. a place where the monks or nuns live work and study
- 8. A man who received honor and land in exchange for serving a lord as a soldier.