history vocab
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junebaby92596 on May 4, 2009
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chapter 15 section 1,2,4,5 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fjord | steep sided valleys that are inlets to the sea |
| missionary | people who are sent out to teach thier religion. |
| excommunication | to exculde a person from a chruch membership |
| concordant | an agreement between the pope and the ruler of the country |
| clovis | king of the franks that was converted into a catholic |
| charles martel | the most powerful mayor who wanted to unite asll the frankish rulers under his rule |
| charlemagne | charles the great |
| otto I | the stronger king of germany |
| greagory the great | pope gregory the first |
| fuedlism | a political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and thier vassals |
| vassal | in fuedalism a noble who held land from and served a higher ranking lord and in return was given protection |
| fief | under fuedlism the land a lord granted toa vassal in exchange for military service and loyalty |
| knight | in the middle ages a noble warrior who fought on horse back |
| serf | a peasent laborer bound by law to the lands of a noble |
| guild | a medival business group formed by crafts people and merchants |
| francis of assisi | the monk who created the first order of friars and the franscisions |
| thomas aqinas | a domincain friar and priest who was one of scholastisims champions |
| mass | the catholic worship service |
| heresy | religouis beliefs that conflict with church teachings |
| antisemitism | hatred of jews |
| theology | the study of relgion and god |
| scholastisim | a type of study were you reason to explore questions of faith |
| verncular | everyday language |
| joan of arc | a french peasent girl who was visited by saints and told things and was acputured and taken to the english inquistion and was guilty of heresy and was burned at stake |
| isabella of castille | the princess who married ferdinad of aragon and they combined that land to make spain |
| ferdinad of aragon | prince of aragon who married princess of castille and they combhined thier land to make spain |
| plague | a disease that spreads quickly many people |
| reconquista | re conquest |
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