Social Studies-Medieval Times
This i sfor people who go to Greater Atlanta Christian School and have Mr. Williams as a 6th Grade Social Studies teacher. It is for the upcoming vocabulary test.
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- Baghdad
- is the capital of Iraq
- mosaic
- a picture made from bits of colored stone of glass
- clergy
- the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the Christians
- catholic
- all-embracing
- orthodox
- in religion, supported and accepted by traditon
- monastery
- the community of persons living in such a place
- monarchy
- a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarchy
- nation-state
- a country with a strong central government and a single ruler and usually a common history and culture
- coat-of-arms X
- a surcoat or tabard embroidered with heraldic devices, worn by medieval knights over their armor
- crusader
- a Christian solider who fought to free the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks in the Middle Ages
- manor
- a large block of land made up by forests, meadows, a farmland, a village, a church, and a house or castle of the noble who owned it all
- fief
- a fee or feud held of a feudal lord
- Palestine
- the Holy Land
- Kaaba
- a Muslim shrine
- Hundred Years War X
- the series of wars between England and France, 1337-1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais.
- Scheherazade
- every day he would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded
- Koran (Qur'an)
- the holy book of Islam
- Allah
- God
- Muslim
- a follower of Islam
- caliph
- a "sucessor" to Muhammad
- King John (MC)
- King of England
- fuedal system
- a system of trading loyalties for protection oin the Middle Ages
- Christendom
- the community of Christians from all different kingdoms and nations
- Constantinople
- the largest city and formal capital of Turkey
- Middle Ages
- the period of European history that lasted from about 500 A.D. to 1500
- jihad
- a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims
- Joan of Ark
- "the Maid of Orleans" was a 15th century virgin saint and national heroine of France
- patriarch
- a church leader
- Magna Carta
- the document that the English Nobles forced King John to approve in 1215, limiting the King's power and protecting the right of people
- Seljuk Turks
- a Turkic and Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to 14th centuries
- Islam
- the religion of Muslims, based on belief in one God, Allah
- knight
- a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages
- Theodora
- Emprees and wife of Justinian 1 of the Byzantine Empire; her influence helped women gain rights
- Pope Urban 2
- born around 1035 to a noble family in northern France
- Muhammad
- Arab prophet and founder of Islam
- medieval
- Middle Ages
- convent
- a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior
- Peter the Hermit
- was a priest of Amiens, and a key figure during the First Crusade.
- Crusades
- A holy war
- excommunicate
- to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence
- icon
- a holy picture of Jesus Christ or the saints
- vassal
- in the Midde Ages, a noble who agreed to perform services for the king in return fo being given the use of the land
- mosque
- an Islamic house of worship
- Shiite
- a group of Muslims who stayed loyal to the decendants of the 4th caliph, Ali, during the 8th century
- Charlemagne
- ("Charles the Great") a.d. 742-814, king of the Franks 768-814; as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 800-814
- Holy Land
- the region of Palestine
- Medina
- a city in Western Saudi, Arabia
- parliament
- the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons
- troubadour
- one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love
- pilgrimage
- any long journey, esp. one undertaken as a quest or for a votive purpose, as to pay homage
- saladin
- sultan of Egypt and Syria 1175-93: opponent of Crusaders
- Fuedalism
- the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- Justinian Code
- a set of laws, written by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, that served the Byzantine Empire for hundreds of years
- apprentice
- a person who works for another in order to learn a trade
- Jerusalem
- an ancient holy city and a center of pilgrimage for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; divided between Israel and Jordan 1948-67
- Sunni
- a group of Muslims who accepted the changing dynasties of the Muslim Empire uring the 8th century
- Hagia Sophia X
- a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century
- hegira
- A flight to escape danger
- tenant
- someone who pays rent to a landowner
- pope
- the leader of the Roman Catholic Church
- bubonic plague
- a deadly sickness spread throughout Europe in the 1340s by the fleas on rats; also called the black death
- minaret
- a tower on top of a mosque, from which the faithful are called to prayer
- serf
- a peasant who worked on a manor
- chivalry
- the rules and customs of medieval knighthood
- Orleans
- a city in and the capital of Loiret, in central France,: English siege of the city raised by Joan of Arc 1428. 109,956
- Runnymede
- a meadow on the S bank of the Thames, W of London, England: reputed site of the granting of the Magna Charta by King John, 1215
- guild
- any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members, and that sometimes constituted a local governing body