Beginning in 911, the ruler of the west Frankish lands gave one band of Vikings land at the mouth of the Seine River, forming a region of France that came to be known as...
Under feudalism, a grant of land made to a vassal.
At the Battle of ......., William of Normandy and his knights defeated King Henry and his foot soldiers.
In Medieval Europe, a wealthy, powerful landowner.
The need for security encouraged the growth of this type of society.
The western Slavs eventually formed the .......... and Bohemian kingdoms.
The ...... Carta, or "Great Charter", gave written recognition to the fact that the relationship between king and vassals was based on mutual rights and obligations.
In the 13th century, they conquered Russia.
Feudalism came to be characterized by a set of unwritten rules known as the feudal.....
This type of law became uniform in all of England and replaced law codes that varied from place to place.
This great ruler died in 814.
Related to the German word that means "a walled enclosure," this refers to the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people.
Unlike earlier plows, this heavy, wheeled plow, drawn by six or eight oxen, easily turned over heavy clay soils.
The southern Slavic peoples included the Croats, the Serbs, and the ............
Italian cities, such as ......., developed a mercantile fleet and became major trading centers in the Mediterranean.
In the 9th and 10th centuries, Western Europe was beset by these.
In the 1000s and 1100s, Europe experienced a revival of ...... and an associated growth of towns and cities.
King John was forced to sign the Magna ....... in 1215.
In Medieval Europe, a peasant legally bound to the land who had to provide labor services, pay rents, and be subject to the lord's control.