Feudal Europe: Key Terms and Concepts
Explore the medieval world of Feudal Europe with terms like Chivalry, Manor, and Vassal. Learn about society, land control, and crusades in this historical quiz.
Feudal Europe: Key Terms and Concepts
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The selling or buying of a position in a Christian church • Simony
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters. • Secular
A person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals. • Lord
A medieval merchant-class town dweller • Burghers
A lord’s estate in feudal Europe • Manor
A person who received a grant of land from a lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and services. • Vassal
A compromise between representatives of the Church and the emperor • Concordat of Worms
A family’s payment of one-tenth of its income to a church • Tithe
A code of behavior for knights in medieval Europe, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion • Chivalry
A system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted. • Three field system
An estate granted to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system in medieval Europe • Fief
The everyday language of people in a region or country • Vernacular
A unified body of law formed from rulings of England’s royal judges that serve as the basis for law in many English-speaking countries today, including the United States • Common Law
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes in France • Estates General
One of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims • Crusade
“Great Charter”-a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by King John • Magna Carta
A medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members’ wages and prices • Guild
A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation • Parliament
A deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people • Bubonic Plague
The appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles • Lay investiture