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WorldHistory Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age |
| Renaissance | the term means rebirth and in this context it refers to a revival of art and learning |
| vernacular | everyday language |
| utopia | "no place" an ideal place |
| Johann Gutenburg | developed a painting press that incorporated number of technology in a new way |
| Patron | a person who supports artists especially |
| perspective | shows 3 dimensions on a flat surface |
| humanism | renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements |
| steppe | dry grassland of Eurasia provides home |
| clan | large group of people related to a common ancestor |
| Genghis khan | leader who bought together the Mongol clans |
| Marco Polo | traveler from Venice who served Kublai Khan for 17 years |
| 5 pillers | |
| muslim | follower of the religion Islam |
| jihad | "striving" can refer to the inner struggle against evil |
| caliph | highest political and religious leader in a Muslim government |
| nomad | person with no permanent home, moves from place to place |
| oasis | place of water, food, and shade in the middle of the ocean |
| allah | one god of Islam |
| quran | holy book of Islam |
| lay | appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles |
| mono | one, single |
| poly | many |
| theo | god |
| minaret | tower from which Muslims care called to prayer |
| tournament | staged battle for entertaining audiences and training knights |
| clergy | religious officials |
| sacrament | important religious ceremony |
| Holy Roman Empire | kingdom originally made up of what is now Germany and Italy |
| analysis | ability to see parts and relationship |
| synthesis | use parts to create a new whole |
| knowledge | recalling information |
| serf | peasant who could not lawfully leave the place where he or she was born |
| manor | lords estate |
| tithe | church tax; usually 1/10 of a peasant familys income |
| chivalry | code of behavior for knights |
| lord | landowner |
| fief | land granted by a lord to a vassal |
| vassal | person receiving a fief from a lord |
| knight | warrior on horseback who promised to defend his lords, lands, in exchange for a fief |
| monastery | religious community of people devoting their lives to worship and prayer |
| secular | concerned with worldly things |
| charlemagne | powerful Frankish rulers who built a huge empire |
| cultural borrowing | taking ideas, traditions, from another culture and made it their own |
| kami | divine spirits that dwelled in nature |
| middle ages | period of European history from 500 to 1500 |
| archipelago | island group |
| bushido | code that samurai lived by " way of the warrior" |
| samurai | Japanese warrior who served a lord |
| shinto | japans earliest religion |
| Golden horde | the army of mongol tartars that overran eastern Europe |
| justinians code | body of Roman law collected and organized by Justinian around 534 ad |
| plague | an epidemic disease that causes high mortality |
| crusades | holy war |
| ethnic group | relating to races or groups of people with common culture of food |
| feudalism | the feudal system or its principals and practices |
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