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| Question | Answer |
| Social | Something to do with everyday life |
| Conquest | When a country is taken over by another. For example the Norman Conquest. |
| Economic | Something to do with money and wealth |
| Domesday | The book produced by William the Conqueror in 1088 to document the wealth of England. pronounced 'Doomsday' |
| Peasants | The poorest class of people in the Middle Ages. Sometimes called 'villeins'. |
| Feudal | The medieval system where the King gives land to his followers in return for soldiers. |
| Crusade | A Holy War. In the middle ages, normally between Christians and Muslims. |
| Medieval | The period otherwise known as the 'Middle Ages'. (The Middle of what?) |
| Nobility | The richest and most powerful people under the Monarch. |
| Government | The people in charge of running a country. |
| Treason | The crime of betraying the King of Queen. Always punishable by a painful death! |
| Divine Right | The belief that Kings and Queens are put in place by God and can never be wrong. |
| Monarchy | A country ruled by a King or a Queen (the Monarch). |
| Protestant | A Christian group that 'protests' against the idea that the Pope represents God on earth. |
| Pope | The head of the Catholic Church |
| Clergy | The people who work in the Church (Popes, Bishops, Priests, Monks and Nuns). |
| Purgatory | The halfway place between heaven and hell. Believed in by Catholics, not Protestants. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for the religious beliefs, for example, Thomas Becket. |
| Revolution | A sudden and usually violent change in government. |
| Catholic | A Christian group that believes that the Pope represents God. |
| Civil War | A war fought between people from the same country: e.g. the English Civil War. |
| Indulgence | A document that could be bought from a priest which promised you a place in heaven. |
| Reformation | The period when the Christian Church split into two pieces: Protestant and Catholic. |
| Religious | Something to with Religion, or the Church. |
| Anglo-Saxons | A tribe of people from Germany who settled Britain before the Norman Conquest. |
| Normans | The 'North men' who came from Norway, settled in Normandy, then invaded Britain. |
| Political | Something to do with how the country is run. |
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