SS Chapter 15 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fiord | steep sided valley |
| missionary | person who travels to carry the ideas of a religion to others |
| excommunicate | to declare that a person or group no longer belongs to a church |
| concordat | agreement between the Pope and the ruler of a country |
| feudalism | political system based on bonds of loyalty lords and vassals |
| vassal | worked for a Lord and in return was given protection |
| fief | service and loyalty |
| knight | a noble warrior who fought on horseback |
| serf | peasant laborer bound by law to the lands of a noble |
| guild | medieval business group formed by crafts people and merchants |
| Grand jury | convicts a person of a crime |
| trial jury | group of people who decide if a person is innocent or guilty of a crime |
| clergy | given authority to conduct religious services |
| Magna Carta | Great Charter |
| Mass | Catholic worship service |
| heresy | accepted the Spartans |
| anti-semitism | people who hated the Jews |
| Theology | the study of religion and God |
| scholasticism | faith is studies of religion |
| vernacular | everyday language used in a country or region |
| plague | disease that spreads quickly and kills many people |
| Reconquista | Iberian Peninsula |
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