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- 5. This involves the withholding of certain sacraments and clerical offices from certain persons and even territories, usually to enforce some type of obedience.
- 8. The code of honorable behavior for medieval knights.
- 9. Germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul.
- 13. The property or fee granted to a vassal for his maintenance by his lord in return for services.
- 15. A system of promises and obligations that governed the relationship between lords and vassals.
- 16. a long period of history from 500 AD to 1500 AD.
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- 1. Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people.
- 2. A large estate (like a village) owned by a knight or lord.
- 3. A knight who promised to support and to be loyal to a lord in exchange for land.
- 4. A person who is learning a trade from skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period of time at low wages.
- 6. a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814.
- 7. Any of the Scandinavian pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in 8th-11th centuries.
- 10. The poorest of the peasant class, and were a type of slave.
- 11. A series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win the Holy land back from Muslim control.
- 12. A medieval organization of craft workers or tradespeople.
- 14. When a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the sacraments of a church, and the rights of the church membership.