Midterm ; Difrancia

The holy church / trinity
'guides'
5-10%
(shepherd's crook)

Knights, nobles, & warriors
'protects'
5-10%
(dog)

the commoners
'work'
80-90%
(sheep)

A loosely organized system of rule in medieval Europe in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords in exchange for service & loyalty

A written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town

In medieval Europe, a peasant bound to the lord's land

In medieval Europe, a commoner free to move from town to town

In medieval Europe, a Lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to greater lord

In medieval Europe, an estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty

The period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages, c.ad 500–1100, during which Germanic tribes swept through Europe and North Africa, often attacking and destroying towns and settlements
 

A Germanic tribe that conquered present day France and neighboring lands in the 400s

Code of conduct for knights

Head of the Roman Catholic church

In the middle ages, an association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to uphold standards of their trade and to protect their economic interests

Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters ; nonreligious

Rules drawn up in 530 by Benedict, a monk, regulating monastic life. The rule emphasizes obedience, poverty, and chastity and divides the day into periods of worship, work, and study

In the Roman Catholic Church, excommunication of an entire region, town, or kingdom

A period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism

A period of the development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering in medieval Europe