Soc Test 2
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- Feudalism
- as the Carolingian kings lost power, a new system of government based on land ownership and personal loyalty devolped
- vassal
- the person who recieved land from a lord
- Manorial system
- Part of the Manor was set aside for the lord and the rest divided among the peasants, who paid the owner ren in goods, services or money. If the lord sold the manor, the peasants or serfs we sold with it
- sacraments
- belief that all Christians accepted, baptism, confirmation, penance, the Holy Eucharist, extreme unction, matrimony and holy orders
- Saint Francis
- founder of the Franciscan order, stressed vows of poverty and gentleness to all creatures
- Saint Dominic
- also took vows of poverty and stressed missionary work among the common people
- Black Death
- A disease caused by fleas that lived on black rats, called this because corpses of the victims turned a dark color
- Guilds
- the economic life of the towns was regulated by organizations called guilds
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Roger Bacon
- an English monk who felt that learning should be based on observation not just faith or pure reason
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- son of the winder merchant, best story = The Canterbury Tales
- Mecca
- the religious capital of Saudi Arabia. Muslims turn toward Mecca when praying and go there on pilgrimagges
- Muhammad
- Arab prophet, founder of Islam
- Five Pillars
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1. There is no God but God
2. Pray five times a day facing towards Mecca
3. Fast during the daylight hours
4. Give money to the poor
5. make a pilgrimage atleast once in a persons lifetime - Koran
- God’s revelations to Muhammad were written down in the Koran, the Muslim holy book
- Islam
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means submission to god.
the religion of the Muslims - Mosque
- Churches of Islam, a place or prayer and study
- Shiites
- members of the sect of Islam which believes that Muslim leadership passed from Muhammad to his son-in-law
- Sunnis
- Muslims who follwed Sunna, the example and teachings of Muhammad
- Ghengis Khan
- Mongol conqueror of central Asia
- Church Fathers
- early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church
- Alaric
- king of the visigoths
- fief
- the parcel of land granted, whether large or small
- Crusades
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"Marked with the Cross"
Jews who didn't believe in Christianity