Social Studies Test #9-10
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Augustas | Rome's first emperor |
| Citizens | The people who could participate in the government |
| Aqueducts | Human made channels that carried water from distant mountain ranges into Rome or other cities |
| Diocletian | He took power in the late 200s |
| Constantine | He was the emperor after Diocletian left power and he reunited the two halves of the Roman empire for a short period |
| 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 |
| Attila | He was the leader of the Huns and he was a brilliant leader and a scary enemy |
| Corruption | The decay of peoples value |
| Justinian | He was an emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 and reuniting the empire was his passion |
| Theodora | Was the husband of Justinian and helped him make good choices |
| Byzantine Empire | The society that developed in the eastern Roman empireafter the west fell was called __________ |
| Mosaics | Pictures made with pieces of colored stone or glass |
| Eurasia | The landmass that include both Europe and Asia |
| Topography | Refers to the shape and elevation of the land in a region |
| Middle Ages | A period lasted about 500 to about 1500 |
| Medieval | Another name for the middle ages |
| Patrick | He was the first misionaries to travel to northern Europe |
| Monks | Were religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities |
| Monasteries | Communities of monks |
| Benedict | Most European monasteries followed a set of rules created in the early 500s by an Italian monk |
| Charlemagne | He was a brilliant warrior and a very strong king. |
| Knights | Warriors who fought on horse back |
| Vassal | A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land. |
| Feudalism | Historians call this system of promises that governed the relationship between lords and vassals |
| William the Conqueror | In 1066 he and his knights sailed to England and defeated the english king and he became king. |
| Manor | The large estate owned by a knight or lord was _________ |
| Serfs | workers who were tied to the landon which they lived |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | A french women who had great political power. |
| Chivalry | Europeans called their code of honorable behavior for knights. |
| Haiku | A short three-lined poems of 17 syllables that describes nature scenes. |
| Excommunicate | Casted out of the church |
| Pope Gregory VII | In 1073a new pope came to power in Rome |
| Emperor Henry IV | Trouble arose when Gregory disapproved of a bishop chosen by the whole Roman |
| Crusades | Were a long series of wars between Christians and muslims in the Southwest Asia |
| Holy Land | The place where jesus had lived, preached, and died. |
| Pope Urban II | The Pope of the Roman Catholic church |
| King Richard I | He was the only one that stayed in the holy land |
| Saladin | The leader of the muslim forces. He was a brilliant leader. |
| Clergy | Church officials |
| Religious Order | Is a group of people who didicate their lives to religion and follow common rules. |
| Francis of Assisi | Franciscans named for their founders Dominic de Guzman and____________ |
| Friars | People who belonged to religious order but lived and worked among the general public |
| Thomas Aquinas | Is the Dominican philosopher |
| Natural Law | A law governed how the world operated and its called _____________ |
| Magna Carta | This document listing rights that the king could not ignore |
| Parliament | In time the councildeveloped into __________ the law making body that governs England today |
| Hundred Years' War | A long conflict between England and France that came to be called ___________ |
| Joan of Arc | Is a pheasent girl that rallied the french troops |
| Black Death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 |
| Hershey | Religious ideas that opposed accepted the church teaching are called ______________ |
| Reconquista | Efforts to retake Spain from the Moors |
| King Ferdinand | He married Queen isabella in 1469 and later became king |
| Queen Isabella | Married Ferdinand in 1469 and later became queen |
| 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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