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an imperial council that advised the Suitan in the Ottoman Empire |
divan |
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a court established by the Roman Catholic Church in A.D. 1542 to investigate people who may have strayed from the Roman Catholic faith and to strengthen the power of the Church |
Inquisition |
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a disease that struck Western Eurasia in the mid-1300s, in an outbreak known as the Black Death |
Bubonic Plague |
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a weapon that can shoot arrows able to penetrate a knights armor |
longbow |
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the right of people not to be imprisioned unlawfully |
Habeas Corpus |
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a military leader who united Muslims to fight the Christians in Palenstine during the 12th century A.D. |
Saladin |
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the series of campaigns, ending in A.D. 1492, by which Christian armies drove Muslim rulers out of Spain |
Reconquista |
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an Italian scholar who made a synthesis of classical philosophy and Christian theology |
Thomas Aquinas |
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the Turkish leader who founded the Ottoman Empire in the early A.D. 1300s |
Osman |
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a member of an elite fighting force of the Ottoman Empire, made up of many slaves |
Janissary |
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a French peasant girl who lead the French to victory over the English at Orleans in A.D. 1429 |
Joan of Arc |
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a series of military expeditions from Christian Europe to Palestine between the 11th anf 13th centuries A.D. |
crusades |
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a list of rights written by England's nobility and signed by King John in A.D. 1215 |
Magna Carta |
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a member of the Turkish people that controlled central and western Asia from the 11th to the 13th centuries |
Seljuk Turk |
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a group of representatives with some powers of government |
parliament |
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the people with priestly authority in a religion |
clergy |
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