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Vocabulary words for later middle ages chapters
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| excommunicate | cast out from the church |
| Crusades | the crusades were a long series of wars between Christians and Mulims in Southwest Asia |
| Holy Land | Europeans called Palestine the Holy Land because it was the region where Jesus had lived, preached, and died |
| clergy | church officials |
| friars | people who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked in the general public |
| natural law | a law that governed now the world operated |
| Magna Carta | a document listing the rights that the king could not ignore |
| Parliament | the highest law-making body in the United Kingdom today |
| Black Death | a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 |
| heresy | religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings |
| Reconquista | the efforts to retake Spain from the Moors |
| Spanish Inquisition | an organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain suspected for secretly practicing their own religion |