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Medieval Times Vocab
flashcards for Medieval Times Unit in Social Studies
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04/17/2011

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Patriarch
Definition
A Roman Catholic bishop next in rank to the pope with purely titular or with metropolitan jurisdiction.
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Caliph
Definition
The ruler of the Islamic Ummah.
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Crusader
Definition
A participant in one of the Crusades
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Serf
Definition
A person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
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Vassal
Definition
A person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
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Clergy
Definition
The group of body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinquished from the laity.
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Troubadour
Definition
One of a class of medieval lyrics 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. Compare trouvère.
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Sunni
Definition
The largest branch of Islam
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Shiite
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A member of one of the two great religious divisions of islam that regards Ali.
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Parliament
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An assemblage of the nobility, clergy, and commons called together by the British sovereign as the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom
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Saladin
Definition
Commander & vizier in Egypt.
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Charlemagne
Definition
King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814.
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Scheherazade
Definition
Fictional sultan's wife who narrated The Thousand and One Nights.
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Seljuk Turks
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A tribe of Tartars from Central Asia who established a powerful empire in Persia in the 11th century.
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Koran (Qur’an)
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The sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad.
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Christendom
Definition
The worldwide community of Christians
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Kaaba
Definition
A cubed shaped building. The most sacred site in Islam.
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Bubonic Plague
Definition
In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China.
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Mosque
Definition
A Muslim house of worship.
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Minaret
Definition
A tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
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Fief
Definition
Inheritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a lord to a vassal who held seisin in return for a form of allegiance.
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Chivalry
Definition
The qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry.
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Guild
Definition
An association of craftsmen in a particular trade.
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Monastery
Definition
A complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer.
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Pilgrimage
Definition
A very long journey or search of great moral significance.
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