Social Studies Chapter 9
Terms
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- Courser
- Battle horse.
- Patriarch
- A church leader.
- Apprentys
- Medieval for apprentice.
- Nation-State
- A country with a strong, central government and a single ruler and usually a common history and culture.
- Icon
- A holy picture of Jesus Christ or the saints.
- Serf
- A peasant who worked on a manor.
- Astrolabe
- An instrument that helped sailors navigate using the position of the stars.
- Catholic
- All-embracing.
- Tenant
- Someone who pays rent to a landowner.
- Shiite
- A group of Muslims who remained loyal to the descendants of the fourth caliph, Ali, during the eighth century.
- Qur`an
- The holy book of Islam.
- Justinian Code
- A set of laws, written by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, that served the Byzantine empire for hundreds of years.
- Contract
- A written agreement.
- Magna Carta
- The document that English nobles forced King John to approve in 1215, limiting the king's power and protecting the rights of the people.
- Tenth Worthy
- Tenth greatest knight of all time, so deemed by his countrymen.
- Orthodox
- In religion, supported and accepted by tradition.
- Wroth
- Medieval for upset.
- Mischief
- Damage.
- Tilting
- Charging on horseback with a lance to knock an opponent to the ground.
- Islam
- The religions of Muslims, based on belief in one God, or Allah.
- Feudal System
- A system of trading loyalties for protection in the Middle Ages.
- Sunni
- A group of Muslims who accepted the changing dynasties of the Muslim Empire during the eighth century.
- Muslim
- A follower of Islam.
- Middle Ages
- The period off European history that lasted from about A.D. 500 to 1500.
- Palfrey
- Regular riding horse.
- Monopoly
- Complete control or ownership.
- Crusader
- A Christian soldier who fought to free the Holy Land from Muslim Turks in the Middle Ages.
- Mosque
- An Islamic house of worship.
- Minaret
- A tower on top of a mosque, from which the faithful are called to prayer.
- Caliph
- A "succesor" to Muhammad.
- Manor
- A large block of land made up of forests, meadows, farmland, a village, a church, and the house or castle of the noble who owned it all.
- Pope
- The leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Bubonic Plague
- A deadly sickness spread throughout Europe in the 1340s by fleas on rats; also called the Black Death.
- Steppe
- Semi-dry plain that produces some grasses and thorny plants.
- Christendom
- The community of Christians from all kingdoms and nations.
- Mosiac
- A picture made from bits of colored stone or glass.
- Vassal
- In the Middle Ages, a noble who agreed to perform sevices for the king in return for being given the use of land.