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Study Guide #4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| secular | authiority declined |
| missionaries | a person sent on a religous mission |
| monasteries | persverd greco roman culture |
| fief | an estate of land one held on condition of feuldal service |
| vassal | a holder of land by fuedal service tencure on conditions of homage and alligance |
| serf | an agricultral laboror bound the fueldal system to work on his lords estate |
| manor | a large country house with lands |
| self-sufficient | able to provide for your own needs |
| vikings | scandivanian people who radid the coasts of europe from 8th to 11th centuries |
| Magyars | relating to the charistic of hungery |
| Maritime | routes across the indian ocean |
| silk roads | across aisa to the medditerian basin |
| textiles | a tybe of cloth or woven fabric |
| Shinto | ehnic religoin unque in japan |
| Aksum (Axum) | location realtive to the ethopian highlands |
| Great Zimbabwe | capital of the prosphures empire |
| Ghana | a country in west africa |
| Mali | a country in west africa |
| Songhai | a member of the people living manliy in niger and mali |
| Animism | the attribution of the living soul of plants imate objets and natural phenomena |
| Glyph | a hieroglyphic character or symbol |
| Quipu | an ancient inca device for recording information consiting of variously threads knotted in diffrient ways |
| Czar | an emporer in russia before 1917 |
| Magna | a charter of libery and pollictical rights obtianded from king john of enlgand by his rebbies barouns at runnymade in 1215 |
| Parliament | the highest legilative |
| Hundard Years War | a war between france and england |
| Joan of Arc | french herione miletary leader implied by religous visions |
| Reconquista | a spanish and portuesgese word for reconquest |
| Usury | the illegal action or practice of lending money at unresonly high rates of interset |
| credit banking | the total of credit |
| secular | other things that have no religous or spirtual basis |
| renaissance | the rivial of art and literarte |
| humanism | an outlook or system of thought attaching importance to humans |
| Patron | a person who supports artists espiecally financially |
| perspective | an artistic techinqne that creates the apperance of three dimentions on a flat surface |
| vernacular | the everyday language of people in a region or country |
| printing press | a machine for printing text or pictures or plates |
| gutenberg bible | completed by johnnas guntenburg in about 1455 in mainz germany |