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• Feudalism


  The system in 10th-13th century European medieval societies where a social hierarchy was established based on local administrative control and the distribution of land into units (fiefs). A landowner (lord) gave a fief, along with a promise of military and legal protection, in return for a payment of some kind from the person who received it (vassal).
• Feudalism


  • Decentralized, the political and economic, social system in medieval europe
  • Society is based on the feudal pyramid where the king is the top, nobles, kights, and vassals
  • The nobility - lands from the crown in exchange of military services
  • The kings gave fife, the knights fought the nobles and the king, and gain food
  • Farmer:provide works and food to gain food and protection
  • Advantage: self-contain
  • Negative: Lords may have more power, serfs and peasants had low social status
• Imperial coronation


  The act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head. Crown an emperor
• Religious figures


  • Bishop
  • Pope
  • Monk
  • Nun
• Charlemagne promoted the mix of Germanic, Romantic, and Christian culture
• Cathedral


  A church that is the official seat of a diocesan bishop
• Missi Dominici


  Two religious figures that Charlemagne used to check out lords' power
• Monasticism is a way of living that's religious, isolated from other people, and self-disciplined
• Germanic Law


  Also provided a means of determining guilt or innocence: the ordeal. The ordeal was based on the idea of divine intervention: divine forces (whether pagan or Christian) would not allow an innocent person to be harmed
• Demesne


  The land in the manor that is worked by peasant and serfs
• Fief


  The land that the Lords gives to vassiles
• Homage


  Swear loyalty
• Vassal


  Given land
• Lord


  Give land
• Serf


  Workers that are bonded to the land. Slave, low class worker
• Manorialism


  A self-sufficient economy: everything that is necessary for life was created in the manor, including church, court, land, harvest field, house
• Fallow


  The land that farmer does not plan crops on for the purpose that they want to make sure the nutrition
• 1. crop system


  Agriculture system that has the feature of self-containing. People
• Guild


  The university as we know it—with faculty, students, and degrees—was a product of the High Middle Ages. The word university is derived from the Latin word universitas (yoo-nee-VAYR-see-tahss), meaning a corpora-tion or guild, and referred to either a corporation of teach-ers or a corporation of students. Medieval universities were educational guilds or corporations that produced educated and trained individuals.
• Monarch


  A ruler who has been given a high rank or position, often a king or queen.
• Emperor


  A ruler who has authority over many other rulers or over a large empire.
• Crown


  A symbol of authority and power, often made of precious metals and adorned with jewels.
• Imperial coronation


  The act of placing a crown on an emperor's head, symbolizing their authority and power over an empire.
• Germanic law-Leges Barbarorum
• Chapters


  • Cell Growth and Division (Chapter 10)
  • Introduction of genetics (Chapter 11)
  • DNA (Chapter 12)
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis (Chapter 13)
  • Human Heredity (Chapter 14)
  • Genetic Engineering (Chapter 15)
  • Darwin's Theory of Evolution (Chapter 16)
  • Evolution of Populations (Chapter 17)
  • Classification (Chapter 18)
  • History of Life (Chapter 19)
  • Plant structure and function (Chapter 23)
• Genetics


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