Vocabulary-Dark Ages (Western Medieval Europe) OLD

Time period in European history also known as the Middle Ages, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Kinship Group

• Medieval

• Ordeal

• Periodization

• Wergeld

Community of people related to one another who share common customs, beliefs & traditions

• Kinship Group

• Medieval

• Ordeal

• Periodization

• Wergeld

Combining different pieces into a new whole

• Comitatus

• "Dark Ages"

• Polytheism

• Synthesis

• Vulgar

Payment made to family of the victim; meant to stop blood feuds

• Kinship Group

• Medieval

• Ordeal

• Periodization

• Wergeld

Difficult trial or experience

• Kinship Group

• Medieval

• Ordeal

• Periodization

• Wergeld

Group of Germanic warriors bound together by their loyalty to a chief or king

• Comitatus

• "Dark Ages"

• Polytheism

• Synthesis

• Vulgar

Of or relating to the common people

• Comitatus

• "Dark Ages"

• Polytheism

• Synthesis

• Vulgar

Period in the Early Middle Ages when learning and civilization declined

• Comitatus

• "Dark Ages"

• Polytheism

• Synthesis

• Vulgar

Belief in many gods and goddesses

• Comitatus

• "Dark Ages"

• Polytheism

• Synthesis

• Vulgar

Process of dividing the past into distinct, descriptively named blocks of time for the purpose of the study and analysis of history

• Kinship Group

• Medieval

• Ordeal

• Periodization

• Wergeld