World History Chapter 10 Vocab

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Procurator

An official in charge of a province

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Plague

An epidemic disease

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Inflation

A rapid increase in prices

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Bishopric

A group of christian communities, or parishes, under the authority of a bishop

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Monasticism

Practice of living the life of a monk

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Missionary

A person sent out to carry a religious message

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Wergild

The value of a person in money depending on social status. A fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she injured or killed

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Feudalism

Political and social order that developed during the middle ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for their service

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Vassal

A man who served a lord in a military capacity

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Knight

a member of the heavily armored cavalry

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Chivalry

The ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold

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Carruca

A heavily wheeled plow with an iron plowshare

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Serf

A peasant legally bound to a lord’s land who had to provide labor services, pay rents, and be subject to the lords control

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Patrician

A wealthy, powerful land owner

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Bourgeoisie

The middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people

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Common Law

a uniform system of law that developed in England based on court decisions and on customs and usage rather than on written law codes; replaced law codes that varied from place to place

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Magna Carta

the “great charter” of rights, which king john was forced to sign by the english nobles in 1215

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Idolitary

The worship of religious images

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Craft Guilds

an association of workers of the same trade for mutual benefit.

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Fief

a plot of land granted by a lord to a vassal (subordinate) in exchange for loyalty and services, typically military service, within the feudal system of medieval Europe

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Crusades

a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. anted to gain back the city of Jerusalem.

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Christianity

monotheistic religion, professing that Jesus was raised from the dead and is the Son of God, whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible and chronicled in the New Testament.

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Mongols

Their conquests reshaped medieval Europe by disrupting kingdoms, altering trade routes, and spreading new technologies and ideas.

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Tournaments

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William of Normandy

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Lord or Noble

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Manor

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Parliamentary Government