World History Vocab Ch 9

Under Germanic law, a wrongdoer paid money to the injured family

The push for the Crusades came when

A man who separates himself from society and dedicates his life to God

Kush declined because of the rise of

The grant of land to a vassal

Who founded a community of monks

Set of unwritten rules between lord and vassal?

Which city was the first great trading states in West Africa?

Who led the Muslim forces to retake Jerusalem from the crusaders?

A person sent to carry out a religious message

The heart of feudalism was

Who created the Carolingian Empire?

Mali's famous trading city

A special class of ____ believed they had power to foretell events

First Germanic king to convert to Christianity

The official religion of Axum by around 300 CE was

Under Germanic law, if accused person was unharmed after physical trial, or __, he was innocent

Which is not a vow made by a monk

Knights pledge their loyalty to this leader in the system of feudalism

People of Ghana often traded their gold for..

Mali was established in the mid-thirteenth century by

Axum owned much of its prosperity to

A man who served a lord in a military capacity

Gregory I was known as

An English government institution is what?

Bantu communities were based on

The head of the convent is called

What was the trading state in upper Niger River valley

Which leader during the 800s was known as Charles the Great because he unified much of Europe?