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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Botan History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to have a lot of importance | Significant |
| to make public display | Demonstrate |
| a promise that some condition will be fulfilled | Guarantee |
| to make something possible or easy to do | Enable |
| an estimate that is almost exact | Approximate |
| achieving a goal in spite of the odds against success | Nonetheless |
| to change place, position, or direction | Shift |
| religious officials, such as priests, given authority to conduct religious services | Clergy |
| In feudalism, a noble who held land and served a higher ranking official, and in return was given land | Vassal |
| hatred of Jews | anti - Semitism |
| all steps one must take to reach a goal | Process |
| to mention as an example | Instance |
| to gain something by planning or effort | Obtain |
| a written or printed paper giving proof of something or information about something | Document |
| to keep out of a group | Exclude |
| to leave or give up completely | Abandon |
| work a person regularly for pay | Job |
| medieval way of thinking that tried to bring together reason and faith in studies of religion | Scholasticism |
| everyday language used in a country or region | Vernacular |
| medieval business group formed craftspeople and merchants | Guild |
| group that decided whether an accused person was innocent or guilty | Trial Jury |
| steep sided valley that is an inlet of the sea | Fjord |
| under feudalism, the land a lord granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or loyalty | Fief |
| belief that differs from or contradicts the accepted teachings of a religion | Heresy |
| Christian struggle to take back the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims | Reconquista |
| political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals | Feudalism |
| to declare that a person or group no longer belongs to a church | Excommunicate |
| a noble warrior who fought on horseback in the Middle Ages | Knight |
| agreement between the pope and the ruler of a country | Concordat |
| a disease that spreads quickly and kills many people | Plague |
| group that decided whether there was enough evidence to accuse a person of a crime | Grand Jury |
| peasant labor bound by law to the lands of a noble | Serf |
| Catholic worship service | Mass |
| the study of religion and God | Theology |