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Middle Ages

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Feudalism   the system of service between a lord, vassals, knights, and serfs  
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Magna Carta   a contract that placed limits on the king's powers and provided freemen with rights  
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Crusades   a Holy War started by Christians against the Muslims to gain control of the Holy Lands  
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Vernacular   everyday spoken language of a region, "slang"  
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Heresy   Ideas that go against church teachings  
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The Plague   a pandemic that spread quickly and killed many people during the Middle Ages  
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Renaissance   renewal or rebirth of ideas, art, literature, and architecture from Ancient Rome and Greece  
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Mercenary   a soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country  
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secular   related to worldly (rather than religious) things  
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Humanism   emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual; reason is the path to knowledge  
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Reformation   a religious movement that created a new form of Christianity known as protestantism  
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Indulgence   a pardon, or forgiveness, of a sin that could be purchased from a priest  
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Martin Luther   a monk who spoke out against the corruption in the Church  
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