World History test
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penguingirl125 on January 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 limited monarchy | government in which limits are set on a ruler's powers-as in England |
| Absolute Monarchy | government where monarchy/ruler has complete power-as in france |
| Duchy/Duke | the divisions in German lands after the break up of Charlamagne's Empire; they were lands ruled by Dukes. |
| Domesday Book | the first census and a record of property of English people for the purpose of taxation |
| Bayu Taperstry | records the history of the Norman Conquest |
| Tower of London | built as a fortress by William the Conqueror near the Thames River; built in 1078 |
| Emperor of Roman | in 962 Otto I was crowned, _____, by the Pope |
| Cardinals | the Church Council that is made of a group of clergymen responsibe for selecting the pope. this was created to end political involvement if appointments of Popes |
| Depose | Power the Pope has to remove emperor for the throne |
| excommunicate | to expel someone from the church |
| heresy | holding beliefs the church considers wrong |
| inquisition | a Church court that searched for suspected heretics and put them on trial |
| friar | monks who did not live in the monasteries but wandered amoung the people preaching, begging, and doing good works |
| layan | people oustide the the clergy who organized a religious order that carried out the policies of the the Pope |
| Reconquest | 500 year struggle to regain Spain from the Muslims |
| Curriculum | course of study |
| scholastic | medival philospers |
| Thomas Aquinas | 13th century Scholastic; member of the Dominican order of Monks, said both reason and Christian teachings came from God |
| Roger Bacon | 1214-1294-great medival scienst; English monk philosopher, said thinks were neglecting science, he predicted boats without oars and airplanes |
| astrology | attempt to predict events on earth by looking at the movement of stars and planets |
| alchemy | search for magic formulas that would turn lead into gold |
| mortality play | character represent human virtues |
| vernacular | in your own local language |
| Beowulf | oldest literary work in a vernacular language based on Danish legend, 1st written in 700's in Anglos-saxon |
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