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6th SS - Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | City state of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Missionaries | People who traveled all over Europe to spread their religious views |
| Indulgences | Documents bought from the Chruch that freed the buyers from punishment of their sins |
| Revolution | a great and often violent change |
| Serfs | Group of people who were not free but had to do whatever work their feudal lord required. |
| Vassals | Nobles who swore loyalty to the king |
| Consuls | the chosen representatives of the people of Rome |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The writer of the Canterbury Tales |
| Guilds | the "workers organizations" of the Middle Ages |
| Pax Romana | The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Ceasar Augustus |
| Socrates | Greek philosopher |
| Fuedal Diagram | Kind, Lord, Knight, Serf |
| Renaissance | Middle ages ended and the pre-modern period began |
| Johannes Gutenberg | inventor of movable type |
| Charter | Written document that granted priviledges and freedoms to city residents |
| These type of writers reached a wider audience by writing in the language they spoke every day. | Renaissance Writers |
| This person landed in the America's but thought he sailed to the East Indies | Christopher Columbus |
| Who defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War. | Sparta |
| Why was Greece called the "Golden Age"? | Organized religion, great literature likes plays and dramas, new architecture like large columns, 1st people with a constitution, 1st with a democracy, 1st to discover major advancements in technology and science. |
| What happened during the Protestant Reformation? | People started to questions religion. Popes and religious people were getting rich from selling indulgences. |
| This person was the first to critcize the Catholic Church because he thought it was corrupt. | Martin Luther |
| Another early protestant leader from France. His followers were called Huguenots. | John Calvin |
| Protestant followers from England were called? | Puritans |