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