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The Crusadez
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Serfs | Agricultural workers that belong to the manor |
| Manors | Self sufficient farming estates |
| Piety | Dutifulness in religion |
| Holy Land | The area of Palestine held spiritually important to Christians, Muslims, and Jews |
| Hierarchy | A ruling body of clergy organized into ranks |
| Papacy | the office of the pope |
| Bishop | high ranking official who supervises the Catholic churches |
| Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Crusades | A series of four holy wars to drive the Muslims out of Palestine |
| St. Francis of Assisi | founded the order of the Friars, Franciscan Monks |
| Iquisition | A trial held by the Catholic Church to get rid of Heretics |
| Heresy | A belif that contridicted the teachings of the church |
| Monastery | A place of residence occupied by many monks |
| Papal Infallibility | The belif that the pope was excused from error |
| Sacrament | One of the church's ceremonies in which you obtain grace from god |
| Schism | A division within the Catholic church |
| Clergy | ordained people of the church |
| Saladin | Most famous Muslim leader of the 1100's who defeated the armies of the 2nd crusade |
| Richard the Lion Hearted | The King of England who left top to join the crusade |
| Reconquista | beginning in the 11th century a military campaign to drive out the muslims from spain |
| Byzantine Empire | Eastern Roman empire that began Constantine moved the capital out of Rome |
| Black Death | the outbreak of the Bubonic plague |
| Joan of Arc | French peasant girl whose vision and work French fortunes and led to history |
| Marco Polo | Traveled east to the orient bringing back spices fireworks etc. |
| Charlemagne | was the first in western europe to bear the title emperor in over 300 yrs |
| feudal system | a system of plitical organization prevailing in medieval europe |
| Medieval | means middle age |
| Fief | a grant of land in return for a pledge to provide military service |
| Vassal | a kings noble followers |
| Holy Roman Empire | a loose federation of mostly german states and pricipalities headed by the emperor lasting from 962-1806 |
| Monks | A man belonging to a religious order livng in a monestery |
| Pilgrimage |