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Chapter 8
Vocabs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Exchequer | Treasury, to collect taxes. |
| Common Law | A legal system based on custom and court rulings |
| Jury | group of men sworn to speak the truth. |
| Lay investiture | The emperor or another lay person. |
| Anunul | Invalidate, his marriage |
| Crusade | Holy war, against the Albigensian |
| Schism | Split, between the Roman and Byzantine |
| Levy | Collect, taxes in order to support the Crusades |
| Religious toleration | Policy of allowing people to worship as they chose. |
| Scholasticism | Studied the works of the muslim philosopher |
| Vernacular | every day languages of ordinary people. |
| Epics | Long narrative poems |
| Flying buttresses | stone supports that stood outside the church |
| Illumination | The artistic decoration of books |
| Epidemic | Outbreak of rapid- spreading diseases. |
| Inflation | Rising prices |
| Long bow | A bow wield by archers |