World Civ Chapter 14
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isabeldigi on March 21, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 simony | selling of church positions |
| gothic | relation to a style of church architecture that developed in medieval europe; featured ribbed vaults, stain glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires |
| crusade | one of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the muslims |
| lay investiture | the appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles |
| guild | a medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members' wages and prices |
| three field system | a system of farming developed in medieval europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crap, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted |
| burgher | a medieval merchant-class town dweller |
| scholastics | scholars who gathered and taught at medieval european universities |
| commercial revolution | the expansion of trade and business that transformed european economies during the 16th and 17th centuries |
| vernacular | the everyday language of people in a region or country |
| usury | charging interest |
| cathedrals | church where residential bishop has his official seat or throne |
| chivalry | a code behavior for knights in medieval europe, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion |
| town charter | wealthy merchants set them up to gain rights |
| university | an educational institute |
| horsepower | use of horses to plow fields |
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