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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

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