The Rise of Europe

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  1. 2. establishing one of many Germanic Kingdoms. Conquered the former Roman province of Gaul, which later became the kingdom of France converted to Christianity and allied pope
  2. 6. wandering poet or singer of Medieval Europe
  3. 7. sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic Church
  4. 11. salaried worker employed by a guild master
  5. 12. spent 46 years fighting Muslims in Spain, Saxons in the north, Avars & Slavs in the east,& Lombards in Italy
  6. 18. money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise
  7. 19. first of friars was founded by him; wealthy Italian. Devoted himself to preaching the Gospel & taught his own example of good works
  8. 20. young person learning a trade by a guild master
  9. 21. having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters; nonreligious
  10. 24. rallied Frankish warriors and because of this at the battle of Tours christian warriors triumphed
  11. 25. germanic tribe that conquered present day France & neighboring lands in the 400's
  12. 26. body of laws of a church
  13. 28. excommunication of an entire region, town, or kingdom
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  1. 1. code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages
  2. 3. exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey church law
  3. 4. battle in 732 in which the Christian Franks led by Charles Martel defeated Muslim armies & stopped the Muslim advance into Europe
  4. 5. exchange of pledges between lords & vassals
  5. 8. peasant bound to the lord's lands
  6. 9. rules drawn up by Benedict, a monk, regulating monastic life
  7. 10. loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service & other support to a greater lord
  8. 13. lord who was granted land in exchange for service & loyalty to a greater lord
  9. 14. written doc that set out rights & privileges of a town
  10. 15. association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to uphold standerds of their trade & to protect their economic interests
  11. 16. lords estate, which included one or more villages & the surrounding lands
  12. 17. claim of medieval popes that they had authority over all secular rulers
  13. 22. monk who traveled from place to place preaching to the poor
  14. 23. someone who would pay rent to a lord to farm part of the lord's land
  15. 27. estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service & loyalty