Medieval Europe Vocab Quiz

Feudalism

• the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service

• a share of the produce nobles shared

• A type of military guild

• An act the kings of medieval Europe wrote

Vassal

• a lord's right hand man

• a holder of land by feudal tenure on certain conditions

• an individual that writes a contract to obtain land

• an assistant to the king of the empire

Knight

• a mercenary that fought to obtain money

• someone who goes on missions to assasinate their enemies

• a man who served his soverign or lord as mounted soldier in armor

a source of income granted to a person (called a vassal) by his lord in exchange for his services.

• vassal

• fief

• patrician

• guilds

the duty to provide the fief for his vassal, to protect him, and to do him justice in his court

• feudal contract

• serf

• chivalry

• knight

the medieval knightly system

• chivalry

• manorialism

• lord

• feudalism

a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate

• establishment

• manor

• guild

• monastery

a servant or laborer of olden times who was treated as part of the land worked on and went along with the land if it was sold

• lord

• serf

• patrician

• vassal

someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler

• chaucer

• lord

• chivalry

• shogun

very old-fashioned or primitive

• theology

• shinto

• inquisition

• medieval