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Chapter 14 terms nb

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Crusades A series of wars carried out by European Christians to gain control of the Holy land from their Muslim rulers
Holy Land Region that included Jerusalem and the area around it considered holy by Jews, Christians and Muslims
Pope Urban II x
Saladin x
Richard the Lion-Hearted x
Hanseatic League An organization of North-German cities and towns that organized and controlled trade throughout northern Europe
credit an arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time
guilds associations of people who worked at the same craft or trade during the Middle Age
apprentice a person who learns a skill under a master of the trade
journeyman a skilled worker who was paid wages by the master of a guild
Gothic a style of church architecture developed during the 1100's characterized by tall spires and flying buttresses
flying buttress an arched stone support on the outside of buildings which allows builders to construct higher walls
illumination the process of decorating a written manu-script with pictures or designs
Hildegard of Bingen x
troubadours traveling singers who entertained people during the Middle Ages
Geoffrey Chaucer x
Dante Alighieri x
Thomas Aquinas x
Scholasticism in the Middle Ages the theological and philosophical school of thought that attempted to reconcile faith and reason
heresy an opinion that goes against the teachings of a church
inquisitions institution of the Roman Catholic Church that sought to eliminate heresy by seeking out and punishing heretics
friars members of certain Roman catholic religious orders
Hundred Years War war fought between France and England for control of the French Throne
Joan of Arc x
Wars of the Roses civil war for the English crown between the York and Lancaster families
Henry VII x
Black Death a terrible outbreak of bubonic plague that swept through Europe beginning in 1347
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