Joven and Josh's World History Exam notes:)
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| medieval | latin for "middle age"
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| feudalism | loosly organized system-powerful local land lords
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| vassals | pledged service loyalty
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| fief | estate
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| chivalry | code of conduct
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| troubadours | wandering poets
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| serfs | bound to the land
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| sacraments | sacred rites
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| tithe | tax equal to a tenth
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| secular | worldly
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| friars | monks--isolated monasteries
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| antisemitism | prejudice against jews
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| guilds | merchants and artisans
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| middle class | standing between nobles and peasants
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| apprentice | trainee
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| when I move | you move, just like that
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| common law | legal system based on custom and court rulings
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| magna carta | treaty to lose power--supposed to give some rights to lower class
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| annul | invalidate, cancel out
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| crusade | holy war
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| schism | split
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| religious toleration | allowing people to worship as they please
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| vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people
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| flying butress | stone supports that stood outside the church/mooning someone from an airplane
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| illumination | artistic decoration of books
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| epidemic | outbreak of rapid disease OH NOOO!
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| inflation | rising prices
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| longbow | developed by British devastating to the french
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| black death | bubonic plague, disease spread by rats killed LOTS of people (like 1/4 entire population)
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| plague | disease that spreads throughout population
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| cartographer | map maker dude
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| astrolabe | instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars
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| caravel | improved type of sailing ship in the 1400s
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| scurvy | disease caused byt he lack of vitamin C in someone's diet
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| circumnavigate | travel all the way around the earth
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| matrilineal | term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traved through the mother. think MATRIMONY. M=mama
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| outpost | distant military station
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| knock knock | who's there?
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| humanism | intellectual movement based on studying classical and cultural stuff, yo
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| perpective | distant objects smaller than those close to viewer
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| indulgence | lessening amount of time somebody had to spend in purgatory
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| recant | take back what you say
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| predestination | idea that god had long ago determined who would gain salvation
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| compromise | acceptable middle ground
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| scapegoat | blame their problems
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| ghetto | poor living
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| hypothesis | possible explanation
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| scientific method | step-by-step process of discovery
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| gravity | single force that keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun
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| conquistador | name for the spanish explorers who claimed lands in teh americas for spain int he 1500s and 1600s
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| immunity | natural protection
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| alliance | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense
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| viceroy | representative who ruled one of spain's provinces in the americas in the king's name; one who governed india in the name of the british monarch
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| yabba dabba | doo
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| plantation | large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there
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| monopoly | complete control of a product or business by one person or group
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| encomieda | right the spanish government granted to its american colonists to deman labor or tribue from native americans
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| peon | worker forced to labor for a landlord to pay their debts
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| peninsulare | member of the highest class in spain's colonies in the americas
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| creole | person in spain's colonies in the americas who was an american-born descendant of spanish settlers
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| mestizo | native american and european descent
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| mulatto | african and european descent
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| revenue | money taken in through taxes
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| triangular trade | colonial trade route among europe and its colonies; the west indies and africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
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| repeal | cancel, do away with
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| joven | is going to ACE this test, I know it!
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| bye bye | happy Joven
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