History of Europe

Rome

the exchange of duties and rights between lords

fight for the king and serve them

2nd Answer: To expand that a bit, when a greater noble (was not always a king) granted land to a vassal the vassal could take on a number of responsibilities, including military service, hospitality for the lord and his servants, attendance of the lord's court to give advice and council, and participation in the lord's entourage. In the later middle ages the demands for physical military service could sometimes be converted to a monetary payment. This was known as scutage.

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The battle between the Muslims and the Franks was called the Battle of Tours.

They spoke Norse, which is closest to Icelandic and Faroese.

They were called Jarls

Picts and Scots

Leif Ericson visited Vinland.

education

A+ monasteries

Celtic

The inquisition was set up by the Roman Catholic church, to suppress heresy. In this context, heresy means any acts or dogmas opposing those of the Roman Catholic church. The inquisition was, so to speak, the religious police and besides that an instrument to keep the church pure (orthodox), an instrument of power.

You will find some very good articles on Inquisition at answers.com (for instance by using 1-click answers). The Inquisition is designed to do evil in the name of good. Using it the Church murdered the innocent and enriched itself (or its officers, more properly) with the property it confiscated from them and their families. There is no morally relative argument that can justify the bloody destruction it wrought upon Europe and America, and indeed, in Christian terms, such moral perversity as the Inquisition can only be the product of Satanic influence.

400 years

Guilds offered training in specific fields, in the form of very close individual tutoring, rather than classroom lectures. They were also a method of quality control. The guild would ensure that its members were competent in the particular profession for which the guild was created. The guild could also perform collective bargaining for its members, much as labor unions now do.

Wessex, and subsequently Mercia (which he allowed to be governed by his daughter and her husband Aethelred)

Most middle age people were serfs, or people who worked land owned by a lord. Basically, they worked the land, kept what they needed, and most of the time, the lord took the rest.

Hindus believe ______ allows the soul to reach its highest spiritual level.