| A | B |
|---|
| people from Scandinavia who raided villages in Europe | Vikings |
| a plague that swept across Europe and Asia and killed millions of people | Black Death |
| hatred of Jewish people | anti-semitism |
| English king who signed the Magna Carta in 1215 | King John |
| a noble who served a lord of a higher rank | vassal |
| A warrior in armor who fought on horseback | knight |
| land granted to a vassal, or knight | fief |
| a young French peasant who led soldiers in the Hundred Years’ War | Joan of Arc |
| called for a meeting of people from different parts of England, which came to be called the Parliament | Edward I |
| a person who worked the lord’s land | serf |
| decided whether an accused person was guilty or innocent | trial jury |
| decided whether a person could be accused of a crime | grand jury |
| religious beliefs that conflict with Church teachings | heresy |
| a disease that spreads quickly and kills many people | plague |
| a Church court that tried heretics | Inquisition |
| an everyday language such as German, English, Spanish, French, etc. | vernacular |
| war fought between England and France over Normandy | hundred Years War |
| holy war launched by Catholics against Muslim Turks | Crusades |
| Two important farming inventions of the Middle Ages that made turning over soil faster | wheeled plow & horse collar |
| group of rules that knights had to follow | Code of Chivalry |
