Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Chapter 2 Vocabulary Words

WILLIAM THE CONQUERER AND THE FEUDAL SYSTEM

  • Anglo-Saxon
  • feudal contract
  • vassal
  • housecarls
  • cavalry
  • lance
  • propaganda
  • Normandy
  • allegiance
  • homage
  • lord of the manor
  • freeholder
  • monarch (king)
  • greater nobel (baron)
  • lesser nobel 
  • minor nobel 
  • commoner
  • freeholder/serf

MEDIEVAL LIFE & CUSTOM

  • shire
  • thatching
  • fletching
  • demesne
  • bailif
  • self-sufficient
  • sustainable
  • fallow
  • crop rotation (pg. 48)
  • fertile
  • wattle and daub
  • vermin
  • louse
  • drought
  • Lammas
  • troubadour
  • obligation

BELIEF AND DEVOTION

  • relic
  • skeptical
  • excommunicated
  • tithe
  • chastity

THE LAW

  • prosecute
  • judge
  • to try
  • ordeal
  • treason
  • canonize
  • shrine

CRUSADES

  • Holy Land
  • Crusades
  • Saladin
  • Muslim
  • Christian
  • atrocity (pg. 64)

ROYAL POWER & DEMOCRACY


  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • King John
  • Magna Carta
  • King Richard

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