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World His Sem Exam
Joven and Josh's World History Exam notes:)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| medieval | latin for "middle age" |
| feudalism | loosly organized system-powerful local land lords |
| vassals | pledged service loyalty |
| fief | estate |
| chivalry | code of conduct |
| troubadours | wandering poets |
| serfs | bound to the land |
| sacraments | sacred rites |
| tithe | tax equal to a tenth |
| secular | worldly |
| friars | monks--isolated monasteries |
| antisemitism | prejudice against jews |
| guilds | merchants and artisans |
| middle class | standing between nobles and peasants |
| apprentice | trainee |
| when I move | you move, just like that |
| common law | legal system based on custom and court rulings |
| magna carta | treaty to lose power--supposed to give some rights to lower class |
| annul | invalidate, cancel out |
| crusade | holy war |
| schism | split |
| religious toleration | allowing people to worship as they please |
| vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| flying butress | stone supports that stood outside the church/mooning someone from an airplane |
| illumination | artistic decoration of books |
| epidemic | outbreak of rapid disease OH NOOO! |
| inflation | rising prices |
| longbow | developed by British devastating to the french |
| black death | bubonic plague, disease spread by rats killed LOTS of people (like 1/4 entire population) |
| plague | disease that spreads throughout population |
| cartographer | map maker dude |
| astrolabe | instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars |
| caravel | improved type of sailing ship in the 1400s |
| scurvy | disease caused byt he lack of vitamin C in someone's diet |
| circumnavigate | travel all the way around the earth |
| matrilineal | term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traved through the mother. think MATRIMONY. M=mama |
| outpost | distant military station |
| knock knock | who's there? |
| humanism | intellectual movement based on studying classical and cultural stuff, yo |
| perpective | distant objects smaller than those close to viewer |
| indulgence | lessening amount of time somebody had to spend in purgatory |
| recant | take back what you say |
| predestination | idea that god had long ago determined who would gain salvation |
| compromise | acceptable middle ground |
| scapegoat | blame their problems |
| ghetto | poor living |
| hypothesis | possible explanation |
| scientific method | step-by-step process of discovery |
| gravity | single force that keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun |
| conquistador | name for the spanish explorers who claimed lands in teh americas for spain int he 1500s and 1600s |
| immunity | natural protection |
| alliance | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense |
| viceroy | representative who ruled one of spain's provinces in the americas in the king's name; one who governed india in the name of the british monarch |
| yabba dabba | doo |
| plantation | large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there |
| monopoly | complete control of a product or business by one person or group |
| encomieda | right the spanish government granted to its american colonists to deman labor or tribue from native americans |
| peon | worker forced to labor for a landlord to pay their debts |
| peninsulare | member of the highest class in spain's colonies in the americas |
| creole | person in spain's colonies in the americas who was an american-born descendant of spanish settlers |
| mestizo | native american and european descent |
| mulatto | african and european descent |
| revenue | money taken in through taxes |
| triangular trade | colonial trade route among europe and its colonies; the west indies and africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves |
| repeal | cancel, do away with |
| joven | is going to ACE this test, I know it! |
| bye bye | happy Joven |
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