Feudalism - Also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, and cultural customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries., Manorialism - Also called manorial system, seignorialism, or seignorial system, political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord., Crusades - a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups, Indulgences - the full or partial remission of temporal punishment for sins after the sinner confesses and receives absolution, Bubonic plague - Also known as The Black Death, it killed more than 25 million people in fourteenth-century Europe., Magna Carta - Issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law., Serf - An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate., Monk - A man who has dedicated his live to religion, partly by giving up some aspects of regular, worldly life., Hagia Sophia - It represents a brilliant moment in Byzantine architecture and art. It was the principal church of the Byzantine Empire in its capital, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire - The longest-lasting medieval power, the eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived for nearly 1,000 years., Justinian’s Code - A legal code. It consisted of the various sets of laws and legal interpretations collected and codified by scholars under the direction of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.,

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