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Knight
Vassal
Feudalism
Monarch
Maya
Aztec capital that is called
Mexico city today
Chivalry
Crusades
Pope
Monk
Nun
Roman Catholic Church
Manor
Serf
Peasant
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Pope Urban II
Fief
Black death
Charlemagne
Vikings
Clovis
Franks
Excommunication
defensive
Primary
Bantu
Matrilineal
Oral
Kush
Aksum
Swahili
Great Zimbabwe
Timbuktu
Marco Polo
Diamond Sutra Book
Kamikaze
Zen
Hurricane
Middle Ages in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Americas Vocabulary
Definition
1. capital of Mali that became great center of African and Muslim learning. Name means
“very far away”
2. Japanese warrior class
3. Their migrations are the largest and longest migrations in human history
4a. Typhoon
4b. Tenochtitlan
4c. quipu
5. Most widely spoken language in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
6. In ancient times was called this and they once conquered Egypt. Today their kingdom
is present Day Sudan
7. Bubonic plague
8. ancestry traced from mother instead of father
9. Traditions and stories passed down by word of mouth
10. Ferocious robbers, thieves, killers who invaded Europe from the Northern
Scandinavian lands and did not wear horns on their helmets
11. World’s earliest printed book
12. the city in the holy land that Crusaders fought to own and control
13. To defend or protect your own lands and area or ideas or team or family
14. It was called this in ancient days but is named Ethiopia today
15. the Land where Jesus walked and lived
16. Japanese worship of the forces or spirits of nature
17. code of samurai behavior called “the way of the warrior”
18. He united the Franks by war, First King of Franks, Excellent military leader, Converted
to Christianity, brutal and merciless in war
19. Often have to work four days a week for the lord as rent and three days for
themselves. Short, hard lives
20. The system of loyalties and protections during the Middle Ages.
21. land grant-what the lord gives vassals in exchange for military support
22. A King is called this
23. Originally were from a Germanic tribe that settled in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Today they are called the French
24. large farms controlling the land around them and protecting it in turn
25. The belief that knights should be pious, fair, brave, loyal, gallant, respectful to
women of his class
26. nobles who get land for supporting the Lord or a king
27. Invented gunpowder
28. He was responsible for the Renewal of the Roman Empire and its order in the Middle
Ages
29. A typhoon is called this in Japanese. It means divine wind
30. Form of Buddhism
31. Greatest Korean Emperor who ordered the Korean alphabet to be developed
32. A 60 acre fortress built by the Shona people to protect their gold trade
33. Caused an economic depression in Egypt, by giving so much gold away that gold lost
all its value, as he went on pilgrimage to Mecca
34. the warrior class in Medieval Europe
35. First or most important
36. Head or father of the catholic church
37. Men who withdraw from life to spend their time working, in monasteries ,and
praying for the world
38. Women who withdraw from life to spend their time working, in convents ,and
Shinto
Junks
Samurai
Sejong Yi
Bushido
The Chinese
Mansa Musa
Mecca /Makkah
Monasticism
The real Lion King in Africa
Medieval
Olmec
Used by the Inca to keep
records though they did not
have writing
praying for the world
39. man who traveled to china and wrote a book about it which inspired Christopher
Columbus to look for a sea route to China and instead found North America
40. war against the “infidel” or Muslims living in the holy land in what is today Israel
41. He called for a war against Islam in the Holy Land and promised forgiveness of all sins
if one fought in it
42. Holy city for the Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Muslims go on pilgrimage there.
43. Sundiata
44. The act of kicking a Roman Catholic out of the communication of saints alias the
church
45. withdrawing from the world and following a life of self-denial and strict rules
46. the poorest and lowest social class of people in the European Middle Ages
47. “Middle” in Latin
48. Chinese ships
49. earliest known of the American civilizations
50. Only Native American group to develop writing that looked like hieroglyphs
51. The Christian Church in the West is called this in the Middle Ages