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unit 6
Middle ages and Early russia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aprentice | young person who is learning a trade from a master |
| Autocrat | a single ruler with complete autority |
| Bubonic Plaque | a contagious diesease that devistated the world in the 1300's |
| Byzantine Empire | the eastern portion of the roman empire |
| Canon Law | bodys of laws of a church |
| Capital | money for investment |
| Charlemagne | founder of an empire reaching across France, Germany, and part of Italy around 800 A.D. |
| Charter | a written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town |
| Chivalry | the code of conduct followed by the knights during the middle ages |
| Common law | uniform system of justice, developed in england, based on court decisions that became legal principles |
| Constantinople | capital of the Byzantine Empire, called the "New Rome", today the city of istanbul |
| Council of Clermont | council of the Christian Church held in 1095 that sparked the Crusades |
| Crusades | series of religons wars fought between christians and muslims from the late 1000's to the mid 1200's |
| Cyrillic | alphabet that became the written script of Russia |
| Czar | Title of the ruler of the russian empire |
| Epidemic | An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects a large number of people |
| Excommunicate | to be excluded from the roman catholic church as a penakty for refusing to obey church laws |
| Guild | a type of trade association of merchants or aristians that was active in the middle ages |
| Icon | holy image of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or a saint of the orthodox christian church |
| Interdict | in the roman catholic church, exommunication of an entire region, town, or kingdom |
| justinian | byzantine emperor from 527 to 565 who was noted for a code of laws and many beautiful buildings |
| Knight | a noble in middle ages europe, who served as a mounted warrior for a lord |
| Magna Carta | a charter signed by the english king john in 1215 that placed limits on the kings power |
| manorism | an economic system structured around a lord's manor, or estate |
| medieval | a name for the period of the middle ages, from about 500 to the middle of the 1400's |
| missionary | person dedicated to spreading a religion |
| patriarch | the hgihest church official in the orthodox christian religion |
| schism | a permanent division in a church |
| serf | a peasent bound to the lord's land |
| Slavs | eastern european clans who expanded into southern russia |
| Theodora | wife of justinian and champion ofthe rights of women |
| tithe | payment to the church equal to 1/10 of a persons in come |
| trade fair site of regular trading activity in the medieval |