Unit 5~ Middle Ages

Germanic people who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century

• Franks

• Ostrogoths
• Huns
• Vandals

Of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father

• Bourbon
• Merovingian
• Habsburg
• Carolingian

French-German-Italian Empire begun by Charlemagne

• Holy Roman Empire
• Frankish Empire
• Napoleonic Empire
• Carolingian Empire

King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor

• Francis II

• Fernindad III

• Charlemagne

• Otto the Great

Landowner, "landlord"

• lord

• tenant
• real estate agent
• property manager

a piece of land held under the feudal system

• serfdom
• manor
• vassal
• fief

a person holding a fief

• vassal
• monarch
• serf
• lord

originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry

• knight
• princess
• duke
• squire

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

• serf
• noble
• vassal
• peasant

the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)

• mansion
• villa
• cottage
• manor