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Davidoff Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Missi dominici | The lords messengers, they kept track of different parts of charlemagne's empire. |
| Feudalism | It is a political system in which land is granted by the lord to his vassals. |
| Fief | the name of the land given from a lord to his vassal |
| Vassal | in feudalism, the person the land is givn to is called the vassal (knight, the noble class) |
| Chivalry | A code of honor for the knights it said they had to protect anyone weaker like children or women. |
| Primogeniture | the policy of all land and money going to the first born son |
| excommunicate | they might be kicked out for going against the church |
| Crusades | A series of battles where the christians from europe tried to regain the holy land from the muslims. |
| Plague | aka- the black death, Carried by rats and fleas killed many people during the middle ages. |
| Heretic | Someone who denies or rejects the views or the rules of the church. |
| Petrarch | Famous for his oems about Laura |
| Leonardo da vinci | Painted the Mona Lisa and Last Supper |
| Michelangelo | Painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Raphael | Famous for "Madonnas" |
| Rembrandt | Realistic portraits |
| Dante | Wrote " The Divine Comedy" and "The inferno" about the layers of heaven and hell |
| Chaucer | Wrote Canterbury Tales |
| Cervantes | Wrote Don Quixote |
| Shakespeare | Famous for many plays and poems including Romeo and Juliet, a midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth |
| Reformation | A time when people tried to reform the Catholic Church. |
| Counter Reformation | When the Catholic Church decided to change |
| Church of England | Protestant Church formed by King Henry the VIII |
| Rennaisance | Rebirth |
| Scientific Rvolution | a time period when people began to question and test old ideas. |
| Copernicus |