 | Term | Definition |
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clergy |
ordained members of the church |
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excommunication |
the act that deprives someone of membership in the church |
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vows |
a promise or agreement |
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chivalry |
qualities such as honor, courtesy, loyalty, and fair treatment |
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monasticism |
to live alone |
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fief |
land from an estate |
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charlemange |
pepins son, fuler of the former western empire, ruled for 48 years, began in 768 |
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oath of fealty |
a feudal oath of loyalty sworn to a lord in exchange for an award of land |
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self-sufficient |
don't need anything from the outside world |
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religious order |
a group of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance withtheir specific religious devotion |
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epic poem |
tells a story, very long |
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manor |
the castle and estate of a feudal lord |
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"ora et labora" |
prayer and work |
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flying buttress |
invention that jutted out from the outside walls like an arched bridge and transferred the outward thrust of the walls and columns to the ground. |
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gothic |
the style that cathedrals used to be built: very bright, emerged during middle ages |
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jesuits |
member of society of jesus |
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jousting |
a game played by knights on horses |
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tithe |
a tenth of ones income contributed voluntarily to a church |
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diocese |
church district |
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abbot/abbess |
ran religious communities |
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monastery |
a place where a community of religious people, particularly monks, live |
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carolingian miniscule |
a type of writing that was very small and developed at the time of charlemange |
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vassal |
a person who recieves land and protection froma feudal lord in return for loyalty to that lord |
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knight |
ana armed mounted soldier of the feudal period who gives military service to a lord |
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hierarchy |
a group of people, organized or classified by the rankand authority |
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celibacy |
one of the vows that religous people take: no sex or marrage |
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charles martel |
charlamanges grandfather |
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illuminated manuscript |
very decorative, made by monks. e.g. first letter of a book |
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serf |
a member of the lowest feudal class, bound to the land and whoever owned the land |
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cavalry |
part of military force that serves on horseback |
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rose window |
colorful window at back of church |
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gargoyle |
a statue on churches to ward off the evil had symbolism |
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bushido |
a japenese religon that samurias believed in |
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chain mail |
armor made out of chains |
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feudalism |
a political and economic system in which large landholders or lords gave protection to people in return for their service to the landholder |
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pharaoh |
an ancient egyptian king |
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hieroglyphics |
an ancient egyptian form of writing |
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cataract |
natural dam |
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sphinx |
half human half lion |
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papyrus |
an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the nile delta |
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Tutankhamen |
king of egypt during 18th dynasty tomb was found intact in 1922 by howard carter |
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rosetta stone |
stone that had greek, hieroglyphics and demotic characters making it possible to crack |
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jean francois champollian |
cracked the code to rosetta stone |
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delta |
a triangular formed by deposits at the mouth of a river |
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silt |
rich soil |
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dynasty |
a sequence of rulers from the same family |
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natron |
salt that they used to dry out body |
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hatshepsut |
queen of egypt from 1495-1475 b.c. |
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howard carter |
discovered tutankhamen |
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embalming |
to treat a corpse with preservities to keep it from decay |
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canopic jars |
jars that kept organs and things preserved |
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herodotus |
greek historian called egypt the gift if the nile |
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giza |
where great pyramaid is west bank of nile |
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1st step in mummification |
the brain was pulled through the nose |
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2nd step of mummification |
they took the organs out and stored them in canopic jars |
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3rd step of mummification |
took the heart out but put it back in because they thought it was the source of intelect and emotion |
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4th step of mummification |
cavities were filled with sawdust and spices to preserve the body |
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5th step of mummification |
they dried the body out using natron |
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6th step of mummification |
they washed the body |
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7th step of mummification |
they bandaged the body |
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8th step of mummification |
the pastes were put on so you could see the contour in the face |
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3 field method |
1 third of land was used for spring 1 third of land for autum planting and 1 third of the land fallow |
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