CHAPTER 14&15 HISTORY FINAL TEST!

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vocab for chapters 14&15
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Vassal A knight who has sworn loyalty to a particular lord
Fief A portion of land, given by the lord to a vassal in exchange for the oath of loyalty
Feudalism A European political system that defines the military obligations and relations between a lord and his vassals
Manorialism An economic system that governed rural life in medieval Europe
Serf A peasant who lost his or her freedom and became permanently bound to the land
Heresy An opinion, belief, or action counter to doctrines that church leaders defined as correct
Reconquista Word to describe the long christian crusade to wrest Spain back from the Muslims
Crusades Recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims
Chivalry A code of conduct that was supposed to govern the behavior of a knight
Craft guilds Associations of artisans organized to regulate the quality, quality, and price of the goods produced as well as the number of affiliated apprentices and journeymen
Commercial Revolution The transformation of the economic structure of Europe to a more complex mercantile society
Scholastics Medieval professors who developed a method of thinking, reasoning, and writing in which questions were raised and authorities cited on both sides of a question
Vernacular literature Literature written in the everyday language of a region rather than Latin
Gothic The term for the architectural and artistic style that prevailed in Europe
Black Death The Plague that first struck Europe in 1347, killing perhaps one-third of the population
Renaissance "rebirth", used to describe a cultural movement that began in fourteenth-century Italy
Patronage Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups, and individuals, often to produce specific works or works in specific styles
Humanism study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understand human nature
Christian humanists Humanists from northern Europe who thought that the best elements of classical and Christian cultures should be combined and saw humanist learning as a way to bring about reform of the church and deepen people's spiritual lives
Debate about women A discussion, that attempted to answer fundamental questions about gender and to define the role of women in society
Protestant Reformation A religious reform movement that split the Western Christian Church
Indulgence A papal statement granting remission of a priest-imposed penalty for sin
Diet of Worms A assembly of representatives from the territories of the Holy Roman Empire convened by Charles V in the German city of Worms in 1521
Protestant Applied to all non-catholic western european Christians
Predestination By god's decree, some person are guided to salvation and others to damnation
Jesuits members of the Society of Jesus, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through humanistic schools and missionary activity
Huguenots french Calvinists
Politiques Catholic and Protestant moderates who sought to end the religious violence in France by restoring a strong monarchy and granting official recognition to the HUGUENOTS
Witch-Hunts Campaign against witchcraft in early modern Europe and European colonies in which hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, were trialed, and many of them executed
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