| Definitions | See Category #1 | Feudalism Economy | Feudalism military service | Justice | 
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					  What is a scriptorium?					 
					
					 This is the location where monks hand copied important texts, such as the Bible. 
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					  Who are the Cluniacs?					 
					
					 This religious group was created amidst rising corruption in the Catholic church in the 10th century. They under direct control of the pope. 
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					  Who are the COTTERS?					 
					
					 These are the "edge-dwellers" in feudal society, the day laborers, those who do the dirty jobs. 
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					  What is 40?					 
					
					 How many days of service did vassals owe their lord? 
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					  Who is the lord?					 
					
					 Who is responsible for justice in feudal society? 
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					  What is simony?					 
					
					 This is the purchase of church positions. 
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					  What is fallow?					 
					
					 This is name of a field, one of three, left empty in medieval agriculture. 
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					  What is self-sufficient?					 
					
					 This is the goal of the manorial economic system. 
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					  Who are peasant farmers.					 
					
					 This group was the most affected by battle. 
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					  What is stocks, pillory, or gallows?					 
					
					 Penalties were severe and resulted in public shaming using one of these three modes of punishments. 
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					  What is sanctuary					 
					
					 This law allowed people to find asylum within cathedrals, as in the Disney classic, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." 
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					  Who are mendicant friars?					 
					
					 We have taken vows of poverty and our name literally translated into begging brothers. 
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					  What is a extraordinary?					 
					
					 Vassals owed these types of payments to their lords, which include ransom, dowry for eldest daughters, building castles through corvee labor, crusading, and hospitality. 
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					  What is summer?					 
					
					 Battles generally occurred in this season. 
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					  What are gibbets?					 
					
					 The dead were hung on these? 
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					  What is compurgation?					 
					
					 This legal practice allowed you to do as you please, so long as you had 12 people willing to declare your innocence. 
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					  What is the Truce of God?					 
					
					 The decree that prevents battle from occurring on holy days and from Wednesday-Sunday, is known as this. 
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					  What is scutage?					 
					
					 The was a tax paid by the wealthy to avoid military service. 
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					  Who is the RCC?					 
					
					 This group attempted to stymie battles by limiting them Mon-Wed. 
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					  What is a sword?					 
					
					 This, which was discussed in class, was convicted of falling on a passerby. 
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					  What is the Hanseatic League?					 
					
					 This group dominated trade in the North Sea from approximately 1300-1500 c.e. 
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					  What is Corvee?					 
					
					 This is a tax paid in labor. 
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					  What is reciprocal?					 
					
					 The economic relationship between lord and vassal this one word but not equal? 
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					  What is particularism?					 
					
					 Off topic: feudal society led to this view which means one had a very limited view of the larger world. 
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					  Who is the lord?					 
					
					 Fines were payable to this person. 
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