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Aqueducts: Human made channels that carried water from distant mountain ranges into Rome or other cities
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Attila: He was the leader of the Huns and he was a brilliant leader and a scary enemy
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Augustas: Rome's first emperor
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Benedict: Most European monasteries followed a set of rules created in the early 500s by an Italian monk
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Black Death: A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
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Byzantine Empire: The society that developed in the eastern Roman empireafter the west fell was called __________
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Charlemagne: He was a brilliant warrior and a very strong king.
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Chivalry: Europeans called their code of honorable behavior for knights.
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Citizens: The people who could participate in the government
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Clergy: Church officials
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Clovis: He was the king of the Franks by the 480s. He had built a huge kingdom in Gaul. He was also one of the most powerful of all the German kings
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Constantine: He was the emperor after Diocletian left power and he reunited the two halves of the Roman empire for a short period
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Corruption: The decay of peoples value
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Crusades: Were a long series of wars between Christians and muslims in the Southwest Asia
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Diocletian: He took power in the late 200s
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A french women who had great political power.
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Emperor Henry IV: Trouble arose when Gregory disapproved of a bishop chosen by the whole Roman
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Eurasia: The landmass that include both Europe and Asia
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Excommunicate: Casted out of the church
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Feudalism: Historians call this system of promises that governed the relationship between lords and vassals
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Francis of Assisi: Franciscans named for their founders Dominic de Guzman and____________
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Friars: People who belonged to religious order but lived and worked among the general public
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Haiku: A short three-lined poems of 17 syllables that describes nature scenes.
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Hershey: Religious ideas that opposed accepted the church teaching are called ______________
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Holy Land: The place where jesus had lived, preached, and died.
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Hundred Years' War: A long conflict between England and France that came to be called ___________
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Joan of Arc: Is a pheasent girl that rallied the french troops
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Justinian: He was an emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 and reuniting the empire was his passion
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King Ferdinand: He married Queen isabella in 1469 and later became king
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King Richard I: He was the only one that stayed in the holy land
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Knights: Warriors who fought on horse back
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Magna Carta: This document listing rights that the king could not ignore
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Manor: The large estate owned by a knight or lord was _________
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Medieval: Another name for the middle ages
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Middle Ages: A period lasted about 500 to about 1500
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Monasteries: Communities of monks
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Monks: Were religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
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Mosaics: Pictures made with pieces of colored stone or glass
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Natural Law: A law governed how the world operated and its called _____________
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Parliament: In time the councildeveloped into __________ the law making body that governs England today
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Patrick: He was the first misionaries to travel to northern Europe
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Pope Gregory VII: In 1073a new pope came to power in Rome
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Pope Urban II: The Pope of the Roman Catholic church
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Queen Isabella: Married Ferdinand in 1469 and later became queen
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Reconquista: Efforts to retake Spain from the Moors
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Religious Order: Is a group of people who didicate their lives to religion and follow common rules.
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Saladin: The leader of the muslim forces. He was a brilliant leader.
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Serfs: workers who were tied to the landon which they lived
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Spanish Inquisition: An organization of priests that look for and punish anyone in spain suspected of secretly practicing their old religion
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Theodora: Was the husband of Justinian and helped him make good choices
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Thomas Aquinas: Is the Dominican philosopher
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Topography: Refers to the shape and elevation of the land in a region
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Vassal: A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land.
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William the Conqueror: In 1066 he and his knights sailed to England and defeated the english king and he became king.
