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Middle Ages
Term | Definition |
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Feudalism | the system of service between a lord, vassals, knights, and serfs |
Magna Carta | a contract that placed limits on the king's powers and provided freemen with rights |
Crusades | a Holy War started by Christians against the Muslims to gain control of the Holy Lands |
Vernacular | everyday spoken language of a region, "slang" |
Heresy | Ideas that go against church teachings |
The Plague | a pandemic that spread quickly and killed many people during the Middle Ages |
Renaissance | renewal or rebirth of ideas, art, literature, and architecture from Ancient Rome and Greece |
Mercenary | a soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country |
secular | related to worldly (rather than religious) things |
Humanism | emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual; reason is the path to knowledge |
Reformation | a religious movement that created a new form of Christianity known as protestantism |
Indulgence | a pardon, or forgiveness, of a sin that could be purchased from a priest |
Martin Luther | a monk who spoke out against the corruption in the Church |