Quizlet social studies- medevil times...unfortunately...not the resteraunt...

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  1. apostle: one of the twelve early followers to Jesus
  2. bishop: a high ranking church officer
  3. blacksmith: one who works with iron, making and mending tools and horseshoes
  4. bridle: a harness with a bit and reins for a horse
  5. Charlemagne: the king who was crowned emperor of the holy roman empire in 800 A.D.
  6. Constantine: an emperor who allowed christianity to be preached freely among his people
  7. Constantinople: the capitol of the Byzantine empire
  8. convert: to change someone's belief from one religon to another
  9. crucify: to put to death by nailing or tying to a cross
  10. drought: a long period without rain orother precipitation
  11. duke: a noble of the highest hereditary rank
  12. feudal: the social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord
  13. frontier: the area beyond the boarder of a country
  14. icon: a painting of a saint or holy person
  15. Jesus Christ: One whose teachings and life form teh basis of the Christian religion
  16. Justinian: a great Byzantine emperor
  17. knight: a high-ranking solider of the Middle Ages who recieved this title from a sovereign
  18. Leif Ericson: an explorer who landed somewhere on the coast of north america
  19. manor: a large medival estate with farmalands, village, and teh home of the owner, who collected goods and services from teh villagers
  20. miller: one who runs machinery for grinding grain into flour
  21. missionary: someone who goes or is sent on a special errand: often for the purpose of spreading a religion
  22. Mohammed: the prophet and founder of the moselm religon
  23. monarch: in medieval times, an all-powerful ruler of a nation or empire
  24. oath: a solemn promise, often carrying the threat of punishment if broken
  25. ordeal: a difficult, perhaps even painful or dangerous test
  26. overland: across land rather then sea
  27. paradise: heaven, or a place of lasting and perfect happiness
  28. patriarch: a religous leader of teh church of constantinople
  29. Paul: a religious leader who preached to gentiles as well as jews and helped to establish and strengthen the christian religon
  30. peasant: a small farmer, tenant, sharecropper, laborer: a country person
  31. persecute: to harm or injure
  32. plague: a seriouse disease, often causing death, that spreads rapidly among people
  33. Pope: highest officialof the Roman Catholic Church
  34. raid: an attack
  35. ritual: a rigid set of rules tobe followed exactly
  36. script: written letters and words
  37. scythe: a tool with a long curved blade and long handle used for cutting grass and grain
  38. serf: a person legally tied to the land
  39. steppe: a large treeless plain, found especially in southeast Europe or Asia
  40. strait: narrow passage linking two bodies of water
  41. testimony: statement made for the purpose fo proving something
  42. unify: to bring together into one whole
  43. waterwheel: a large wheel turned by running water to provide power
  44. William the Conqueror: the duke who conqured england and became its king