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Anti-Semitism: prejudice towards the Jewish people for cultural, racial, religious and/or socio-economic reasons
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assimilation: members of minority groups adopting vaules and chara
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auto-da-fe: Portuguese for "act of faith," public ceremony at which sentences were announced against those who had been tried and found guilty by the Inquisition.
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Black Death: popular name for the bubonic plague
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blasphemy: written or spoken words which express contempt or irreverence about God, claiming something due to God only
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blood libel: accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish childeren to make matzo.
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Crusades: 9 wars waged by European Christian rulers between 1096 and 1291.
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edict: formal decree by s pope sealed
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expulsion: act of forcing or driving out people from city or contry.
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foreced baptism: act of converting people aganisy there will.
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ghetto: section or quarter of a city where members of a minority group live becausee of legal, social or economic pressure.
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heresy: position on an article of faith that conflicts with officailly defined teachings
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Inquisition: a religious court insituted by Pope Gregory IX
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Marranos: baptized Jews of Spain and Portugal
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Middle Ages: historical period between the fall of Rome at the end of the 5th century and the start of the Renaissance in the 14th century
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pagan: follower of a polytheistic religion
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papal bull: formal decree by a pope sealed with a round leadon.
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Purim: Jewish festival commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from massacre
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reformation: political and religious event beginning in the 16th century resulting in the division of Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant faiths
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usury: lending of money with an interest charge. Christians were forbidden from practicing so they forced the practice onto the Jews.