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Medieval Europe
Term | Definition |
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plague | a disease that spreads quickly and kills many people |
Scholasticism | a new way of thinking where one would use reason to explore questions of faith |
missionaries | people sent out to teach their religion |
concordat | an agreement between the pope and a ruler of a country |
excommunicate | to exclude a person from church membership |
knight | warriors in armor who fought on horseback and wore coats of mail |
serf | peasants who worked for lords |
fjords | steep-sided valleys that are inlets of the sea |
Anti-Semitism | hatred of Jews |
theology | study of God and religion |
vassal | a noble who served a lord of higher rank |
fief | land granted to a vassal by a lord |
vernacular | everyday language |
trial jury | decided whether or not an accused person was innocent or guilty |
grand jury | decided whether or not people should be accused of a crime |
mass | Catholic worship service |
clergy | people who had been ordained as priests |
guild | business groups |
Feudalism | a social order where land-owning nobles governed and protected the people in return for services (ex: fighting or farming) |
Reconquista | "reconquest" or to take back |
heresy | religious beliefs that conflict with church teachings |