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MR. Guaron
world history test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nuns | female member of a religious order (especially Catholic) |
| Fief | A unit of land held by a vassal from a lord in return for military service |
| Feudal contact | |
| tournaments | series of athletic competitions or games culminating in a championship match |
| common law | law which is determined by judges, method of lawmaking that began in England; unwritten law, law that is based on past legal decisions |
| magna carta | British constitutional charter which limited the power of kings and was signed by King John I in 1215; constitution ensuring rights and liberties |
| chivalry | complicated code of behavior/ethics for knights, based on telling the truth, keeping one's word and protecting those weaker than oneself |
| wergild | If property was stolen, or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay wergild to the victim's family or to the owner of the property. |
| Abbess | woman who is the superior of a convent, woman who is in charge of a convent |
| clergy | people who work in religious ministry (rabbis, priests, etc.) |
| schism | division into two factions, separation into opposing parties |
| patriarch | male head of a church; male head of a family |
| knight | medieval warrior; man who holds an honorary nonhereditary rank |
| estate | extensive piece of land usually with a large house on it; person's property, wealth, possessions; status, social standing, rank |
| vassal | tenant-farmer, one who gave total allegiance to a feudal lord in return for protection and the right to occupy and cultivate land, serf; subordinate; servant, enslaved person |
| bishopric | diocese; office or position of bishop |
| monastery | community of monks, residence of a community of monks |
| crusades | medieval military expedition by European Christians to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims; |
| monk | hermit, male member of a religious order |
| pope | head of Roman Catholic church, Bishop of Rome, pontiff |
| feudalism | political and social system of medieval Europe in which vassals were protected by lords whom they served in times of war |
| scriptoria | writing room (especially in a monastery) |
| missionary | of or pertaining to a mission; characterized by the desire or intention to convert others; pertaining to a religious mission |
| infidels | one who does not accept a particular religion; one who has no religion, heathen, non-believer |
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