Middle Ages

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What event launched Europe into the Dark Ages/Middle Ages?

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The overthrow of the last Roman emperor in 476 A.D.

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What is significant about Charles Martel?

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he won the Battle of Tours in 732, which halted the advance of the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate into Western Europe

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Period of European history from 500 to 1500

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Middle Ages

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Religious community of people devoting their lives to worship and prayer

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Monastery

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Powerful Frankish ruler who built a huge empire

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Charlemagne

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Landowner

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Lord

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Land granted by a lord to a vassal

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Fief

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Person receiving a fief from a lord

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Vassal

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Warrior on horseback who promised to defend his lord's land in exchange for a fief

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Knight

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Peasant who could not lawfully leave the place where he or she was born

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Serf