| A | B |
|---|
| mayor of the palace | government officials |
| count | local officials |
| feudalism | highly decentralized government that stressed alliances of mutual protection. |
| fief | estates with peasants |
| vassal | noble who served a lord of the next higher rank. |
| tournaments | mock battles between knights. |
| chivalry | a knights code of conduct. |
| manorialism | a system of agricultural production. |
| serfs | people who were bound to the manor. |
| sacraments | church rituals |
| abbot | monastery head |
| cardinals | high church officials. |
| heresy | denial of basic church teachings. |
| excommunication | expulsion from the church. |
| friars | wandering preachers |
