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CHAPTER 9
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1) UNDER GERMANIC LAW, IF AN ACCUSED PERSON WAS
UNHARMED AFTER A PHYSICAL TRIAL, OR ORDEAL, HE OR SHE
WAS PRESUMED INNOCENT.
2) SAINT BENEDICT FOUNDED A COMMUNITY OF MONKS THAT
ESTABLISHED THE BASIC FORM OF MONASTICISM IN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
3) THE CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE WAS A REVIVAL OF LEARNING
AND CULTURE.
4) THE VIKINGS WERE MADE PART OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION BY
THE FRANKISH POLICY OF SETTLING THEM AND CONVERTING
THEM TO CHRISTIANITY.
5) THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT A LORD COULD GIVE TO A VASSAL
WAS A PIECE OF LAND.
6) CHIVALRY WAS A CODE OF ETHICS THAT KNIGHTS WERE
SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD.
7) IN 1066, WILLIAM OF NORMANDY INVADED ENGLAND, SOUNDLY
DEFEATING KING HAROLDʼS FORCES AT THE BATTLE OF
HASTINGS.
8) THE MAGNA CARTA WAS A DOCUMENT THAT EVENTUALLY WAS
USED TO STRENGTHEN THE IDEA THAT A MONARCHʼS POWER
WAS LIMITED, NOT ABSOLUTE.
9) SALADIN LED THE MUSLIM FORCES TO RETAKE JERUSALEM
FROM THE CRUSADERS.
10)THE VENETIAN LEADERS OF THE FOURTH CRUSASDE SAW AN
OPPORTUNITY TO NEUTRALIZE THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND
DIVERTED THEIR ARMY TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
11)UNDER EARLY GERMANIC LAW, A WRONGDOER HAD TO PAY
WERGILD, OR “MONEY FOR A MAN,” TO THE FAMILY OF THE
PERSON HE INJURED OR KILLED.
12)GREGORY I, ALSO KNOWN AS GREGORY THE GREAT
STRENGTHENED THE POWER OF THE PAPACY AND THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
13)CHARLEMAGNE ESTABLISHED THE MISSI DOMINICI, WHO WERE
TWO MEN WHO WERE SENT OUT TO LOCAL DISTRICTS TO
ENSURE THAT THE COUNTS WERE CARRYING OUT THE KINGʼS
ORDERS.
14)AT THE HEART OF FEUDALISM WAS VASSALAGE, WHICH MEANT
WARRIORS SWORE LOYALTY TO A LORD, WHO IN TURN TOOK
CARE OF THEIR NEEDS.
15)THE FEUDAL CONTRACT WAS A SET OF UNWRITTEN RULES
THAT DETERMINED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A LORD AND
HIS VASSAL.
16)WHILE THE LORD WAS AWAY AT WAR OR COURT, MANAGEMENT
OF HIS ESTATE FELL TO THE LADY OF THE CASTLE.
17)THE DOMESDAY BOOK WAS THE FIRST CENSUS SINCE ROMAN
TIMES.
18)PHILIP II AUGUSTUS GREATLY INCREASED THE POWER OF THE
FRENCH MONARCHY BY WAGING WAR ON THE RULERS OF
ENGLAND AND GAINING CONTROL OF NORMANDY, MAINE, ANJOU,
AND AQUITAINE.
19)JUSTINIANʼS CODIFICATION OF ROMAN LAW RESULTED IN THE
BODY OF CIVIL LAW.
20)THE PUSH FOR THE CRUSADES CAME WHEN EMPEROR ALEXIUS
I ASKED FOR AID.
21)WERGILD IS AN AMOUNT OF MONEY PAID BY A CRIMINAL TO THE
FAMILY OF THE PERSON HE HAD KILLED OR INJURED.
22)GREGORY I STRENGTHENED THE POWER OF THE PAPACY.
23)COUNT WAS GERMAN NOBLE WHO ACTED AS THE KINGʼS
REPRESENTATIVE IN A CERTIN LOCAL AREA.
24)MAGYARS WERE PEOPLE FROM ASIA WHO SETTLED ON THE
PLAINS OF HUNGARY.
25)VASSALAGE IS THE HEART OF FEUDALISM.
26)FIEF IS A GRANT OF LAND MADE TO A VASSAL.
27)DOMESDAY BOOK WAS THE FIRST CENSUS SINCE ROMAN
TIMES.
28)PHILIP IV CREATED THE FIRST FRENCH PARLIAMENT.
29)JUSTINIAN CODIFIED ROMAN LAW, RESULTING IN THE BODY OF
CIVIL LAW.
30)RICHARD THE LIONHEART NEGOTIATED A SETTLEMENT WITH
SALADIN TO ALLOW CHRISTIANS ACCESS TO JERUSALEM.
31)ORDEAL WAS A MEANS OF DETERMINING GUILT UNDER
GERMANIC LAW.
32)BENEDICT FOUNDED A COMMUNITY OF MONKS THAT BECAME
THE MODEL FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC MONASTICISM.
33)CHARLEMAGNE CREATED THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE.
34)VIKINGS WERE NORSEMEN OF SCANDINAVIA.
35)VASSAL IS A MAN WHO SERVED A LORD IN A MILITARY CAPACITY.
36)A KNIGHT WAS A HEAVILY ARMORED CAVALRY SOLDIER.
37)MAGNA CARTA GAVE WRITTEN RECONGNITION TO THE MUTUAL
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN KINGS AND VASSALS .
38)WILLIAM OF NORMANDY WON THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS.
39)SALADIN LED THE MUSLIM FORCES DURING THE THIRD
CRUSADE.
40)POPE INNOCENT III INITIATED THE FOURTH CRUSADE.