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- Primogeniture
- Rule was passed down to oldest child
- Realism
- A style representing people and objects as they really are
- Plague
- A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease that killed millions
- Simony
- buying and selling of church offices
- Patrician
- A member of the highest class of society in Italian city-states during the Renaissance; an aristocrat
- Capital
- Wealth in the form of money or property given of more wealth
- Caravel
- A swift, maneuverable sailing ship used for exploration by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the 1500s and the 1600s
- Chivalry
- Qualities such as honor, courtesy, loyalty, and fair treatment of the weak, idealized by knights in the Middle Ages
- Republic
- a political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in which supreme power lies in a body of elected citizens
- Nationalism
- belief in Pride of nation
- Patron
- A person who financially supports scholars or artists
- Infidel
- Non-Christians
- Crusade
- The eight wars that the Europeans fought to win the holy land from the muslims
- Scientific Revolution
- new ways of thinking about science and nature
- Dowry
- Money, land, servants, or any other valuable property given by a bride's family to her husband at marriage
- Indulgences
- A corruption where you could buy your way out of doing something religious
- Monopoly
- complete control
- Annulment
- A religious thing where marriage never existed
- Vernacular
- language of the people
- Renaissance
- Revival of attention to classical Greek and Roman art, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread through Europe
- Exact Location
- uses latitude and longitude with location
- Great Schism
- When the church split and had two popes
- Knight
- An armed, mounted soldier of the feudal period who gives service to a lord