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  1. 4. member of a Central Asian ethnographic group of closely related tribal peoples who live mainly on the Mongolian Plateau and share a common language and nomadic tradition.
  2. 6. A historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity
  3. 7. Carta he first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
  4. 8. a series of armed conflicts fought between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages.
  5. 12. the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code
  6. 14. a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
  7. 15. an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate.
  8. 18. the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.
  9. 19. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
  10. 21. a western European people during the Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
  11. 22. he dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
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  1. 1. a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD.
  2. 2. the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
  3. 3. a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty
  4. 5. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
  5. 7. relating to the Middle Ages.
  6. 9. modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic.
  7. 10. a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English.
  8. 11. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
  9. 13. a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834.
  10. 16. the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law.
  11. 17. a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East.
  12. 20. a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and lands rented to tenants.
  13. 21. an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.