| A | B |
|---|
| Middle Ages | the time in European History that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| Secular | concerning worldly rather than spiritual matters (things) |
| Charlemagne | Charles the Great, ruled the Kingdom in 771 |
| Lord | in feudal Europe, a person who controls land and could therefore grant estates to vassals |
| tithe | a family's payment of one-tenth of its income to a church |
| vassal | a person who received a grant of land from a lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and services |
| knight | mounted horsemen who pledged to defend their lord's land in exchange for fiefs |
| serf | a peasant (poor person) legally bound to live on a lords estate |
| manor | a lord's estate in Feudal Europe |
| fief | an estate (land) granted (or given) to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system |
