EUROPE GEOGRAPHY

• Europe had forests with valuable timber that covered most of the land.
• Europes location and resources helped the people living there.
• Europe extends from modern day Portugal to China.
• Sea and Ocenas had good recources as well.
• Europe used it to trade and to also youse transportation.

CHARLEMEGIN

• Was a French King.
• Defeated rebel nobles.
• Was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
• Supported education and built schools.
• Had a very strong government.

VIKINGS

• Raided and traded.
• Acted as mercinaries.
• Eventualy made settlements in Canada.
• Settled in wide ranging colinies.

FEUDALISM

• Nobles would gain land for military services.
• Peasants had to live on there lords land.
• A lord was a noble who owned land.
• Peasants gave things to their nobles in exchange for protection.

KNIGHTS

• A person with knighthood from a monarch.
• They were almost the rank of nobles.

SERFS

• A serf worked on his nobles estate.
• Would work two to three days.
• They could not be traded with the land.

MONKS AND MONASTARIES

• A monasterie was like a church
• Monks would live inside the monastaries
• Monastaries could have many monks to one.
• A monk was like a preacher.

VASSALS

• A serf on mutual obligation.
• They acted like serfs and peasants.

THE MANOR SYSTEM

• The way lords organized land for more goods
• The lords lived in manor houses.
• Serfs lived in houses made of mud bricks
• Serfs would complete the work along the land.
• Serfs would go to church.

MIKE LOWE