History of Western Europe 1

late 400s to early 500s elaborates rules: work, prayer, scholarship, self denial discipline; gives leaders almost total control

Defined Christianity 1st to write down Christian beliefs; Christ is divine; epistles

late 3rd early 4th cent.

vassal vows to be loyal until death

vassal vows to be the lords man

Latin for payment in kind(good/ Services)

step lower than lord

peasants who are not free to leave farms

Scared book of Islam

Consists of both the Qur'an and the Hadith

on sattle for horses allowed knights to wear heavier gear so they wouldn't fall off the horse

lower case lettering; took up less room on paper; standerized writing late 700s

mid-late 700s helps pope when pope is at war; gained support from pope(land)

Periodic "Checker uppers"