17.2-17.3

A Christian king who in the 700s built a huge empire by conquering modern day France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and northern Spain. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned Emperor of the Romans.

• St. Patrick

• Franks

• Benedictine

• Charlemagne

Communities where monks lived

• Franks

• monasteries

• missionaries

• Castles

In the 480s a powerful group under the leadership of Clovis conquered Gaul.

• Monks

• Charlemagne

• Franks

• Magyars

religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities

• monks

• monasteries

• missionaries

• Franks

another name for the Middle Ages. From Latin means “middle age”

• Charlemagne

• missionaries

• medieval

• monks

A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land

• serfs

• lord

• vassal

• monarch

A system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals.

• fiefs

• feudalism

• serfs

• Bushido

The large estate owned by a knight or lord

• vassal

• monasteries

• manor

• serf

workers who were tied to the land on which they lived

• vassal

• monks

• serfs

• fiefs

warriors who fought on horseback

• monks

• knights

• serfs

• lords