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Middle ages and Early russia

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