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| 136067408 | Latin West | Historians' name for the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange in the period ca. 1000-1500 | 0 | |
| 136067409 | three-field system | A rotational system in which each year the farmers would use 2/3 of their land for crops and planted oats in the other third which rejuvenated the soil and could be used to feed the horses | 1 | |
| 136067410 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-14th century, carrying off vast numbers of persons | 2 | |
| 136067411 | water wheel | A mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery | 3 | |
| 136067412 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the 14th century | 4 | |
| 136067413 | guild | An association of craft specialist or of merchants that regulated the business practices of its members and the prices they charged; trained apprentices; denied outsiders and all Jews membership | 5 | |
| 136067414 | Gothic cathedral | Large churches originating in 12th century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows | 6 | |
| 136067415 | Universities | Degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Those that appeared in Latin West from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universities | 7 | |
| 136067416 | Scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the 13th century | 8 | |
| 136067417 | humanists (Renaissance) | European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the 15th century and later | 9 | |
| 136067418 | printing press | A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink | 10 | |
| 136067419 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon | 11 | |
| 136067420 | Hundred Years War | 1337-1453; Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families | 12 | |
| 136067421 | new monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450-1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits | 13 | |
| 136067422 | reconquest | Beginning in the 11th century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492, the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms | 14 |
