Chapter 14
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Holy Land | the region where the site of the Holy Temple of the Jews was located where Jesus had lived and taught
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| Pope Urban II | Leader of the Roman Catholic Church who asked European Christians to take up arms against the Muslims, starting the Crusades
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| Crusades | a series of religious wars launched by the European Christians in the Middle Ages
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| Saladin | Muslim sultan who overthrew the Seljuk Turks and drove the Christians out of Jerusalem, leading to the Third Crusade
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| Richard the Lion-Hearted | King of England who led forces against the army of Saladin during the third Crusade
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| Hanseatic League | a group of cities and towns in northern Germany that worked together to promote and protect trade
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| credit | the promise of later payment for goods bought
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| guilds | trade organizations in which all members set standards and prices for their products
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| apprentice | someone who spent several years with a skilled crafter to learn basic skills of the craft
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| journeyman | a person who has learned the basics of a career as an apprentice but is still learning from masters and has not yet opened his own shop
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| Gothic | building style that used advances in engineering to make churches taller and brighter than earlier churches
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| flying buttresses | supports that helped hold up church walls from the outside, allowing for much higher ceilings and an interior that had no columns
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| illumination | the process of decorating a written manuscript with pictures or designs
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| Hildegard of Bingen | a famous medieval nun who was both a poet and a composer
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| troubadors | wandering singers who performed epics and romances
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| Geoffrey Chaucer | English author of the Canterbury Tales
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| Dante Alighieri | Italian author of the Divine Comedy
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| Thoman Aquinas | influential scholar who argued that classical ideas could be used to improve people's understanding of Christian teachings
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| Scholasticism | a combination of Christian faith and rational thought set forth by Aquinas
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| heresy | beliefs that oppose the church's official teachings
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| Inquisitions | legal procedures supervised by special judges who tried suspected heretics
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| friars | members of religious orders who took vows of poverty and obedience and lived among the people to whom they preached
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| Hundred Years' War | a war between Britain and France that began as a dispute over the throne of France
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| Joan of Arc | peasant girl who led the French into battle during the Hundred Years' War and won several victories before she was captured, tried, and executed by the British
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| Wars of the Roses | conflict between the York and Lancaster families for the English throne
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| Henry VII | nobleman whose rise to king ended the Wars of the Roses and stared a new era in English history
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| Black Death | a devastating plague that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1351
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