Download Chapter 19 Vocabulary Name Medieval Europe/Middle Ages Period

Chapter 19 Vocabulary
Medieval Europe/Middle Ages
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anti-Semitism – hostility toward or discrimination against Jews
(p. 569)
chivalry – the system, spirit, or customs of medieval knighthood
(p. 549)
concordat – agreement between the pope and the ruler of a country
(p. 547)
decimate – kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of
epidemic – a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease in a
community at a particular time
feudalism – the system of service between a lord and the vassals
who have sworn loyalty to the lord; political order; under feudalism,
nobles governed and protected people in return for services
(p. 523, pp. 548-549)
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fief – a feudal estate belonging to a vassal (p. 549)
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fjord – a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes (p. 544)
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grand jury – a group of citizens that meets to decide whether people
should be accused of a crime (p. 558)
10. guild – a group of merchants or crafts people (p. 555)
11. heresy – ideas that go against Church teachings (p. 568)
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knight – armed warriors serving a lord who fought on horseback
(p. 549)
13. lord – a high-ranking noble who had power over others (p. 548)
14. mass – religious worship service of Catholic Christians (p. 568)
15. peasant – lower class of the Feudal Order; farmers (p. 551)
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plague – a disease that spreads quickly and kills many people
(p. 570)
Reconquista – the Christian effort to take back the Iberian Peninsula
(pp. 575)
scholasticism – a way of thinking that combined faith and reason
(p. 565)
serf – a member of the peasant class tied to the land and subject to
the will of the landowner (p. 549)
theology - the study of religious faith, practice and experience
(p. 565)
vassal – a lower-ranking noble under the protection of a feudal lord
(p. 548)
22. vernacular – the everyday spoken language of a region (p.566)