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| capital | property and/or money borrowed to use for investments |
| trials by ordeal | legal system used to determine whether someone was innocent or quilty |
| castle | a fortress which protected the people in a community living situation, the home of a lord |
| chivalry | a code of behavior that consistent of being loyal and being respectful |
| lord | a person who controlled all land within a manor |
| page | a 7 to 14 year old who was an assistant to a manor's lord, child was beginning knight training |
| vassals | a person who owes loyalty and services to another |
| knight | a noble relied on this person to provide protection |
| feudalism | system of services & rewards used in medieval Europe, based on land ownership |
| squire | a 14 to 21 yr. old training to be a knight, learningi about chivalry & battle tactics |
| serf | person requited to serve a lord, lowest level in Medieval society, tied to the land |
| fief | a piece of land upon which one lived, property given to a lord by a monarch |
| manor | a community on propety owned by a lord, includes a village, castle, fields, homes for serfs |
| secular | having to do with worldy non-religious matters |
| tithe | a required donation to the church which comes out to be 10% of a person's income |
| benedictine rules | policies that determined monastic ways, vows of poverty, chastity, purity and obedience |
| anti-semitism | prejudice against people of the Jewish faith |
| interdict | excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, an entire town, region or kingdom |
| sacrament | a sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic church |
| canon law | the body of laws within the religious community |
| simony | the act of buying or selling benefits of and positions in the church |
| clergy | people that led a monastic way of life in the church |
| excommunication | expelled from the Roman Catholic church because the church decides that you broke a serious rule |
| charter | a contract that allowed merchants to set the rules of trade and commerce |
| guilds | organizations that represented and aided artisans and skilled workers |
| agricultural revolution | a time in history when farming became a vital part of the economy and merchants emerged as a powerful class in part of because of this |
