Chapter 11 Matching Exercise

Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.

A representative assembly in England that, by the fourteenth century, was composed of great lords (both lay and ecclesiastical) and representatives from two other groups: shire knights and town burgesses.

The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.

A term initiated by William I to designate feudal vassals who held lands in return for service and loyalty to the king.

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

The law of the church.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

An arrangement in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and required to serve under them in war.

A trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.

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