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5667202559HominidHumans and other creatures that walk upright0
5667202560CivilizationA complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structures, religion and art1
5667202561PlebianIn the roman republic a social clas made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers2
5667202562TriumvirateA government by 3 people with equal powers3
5667202563HijrahThe journey of Muhammad and his followers to Madinah in 622, which became year of the official calender of Islam4
5667202564HijjA pilgrimage to Makka, one of the requirments of the 5 pillars of Islam5
5667202565FeudalismPolical and social order that developed during the middle ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service6
5667202566VassalUnder feudalism, a man who served a lord in a military capacity7
5667202567ChivalryIn the middle ages, the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; code of ethics knights had to uphold8
5667202568FiefUnder feudalism, a grant of land made to a vassal9
5667202569DowryA gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage, either by the bride's parents to her husband or, in Islamic societies by a husband to his wife10
5667202570Lay investitureThe practice by which secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave the symbols of their office11
5667202571InterdictA decree by the pope that forbade priests from frin giving the sacraments of the church to the people12
5667202572InfidelAn unbeliever13
5667202573Anti-semitismHostility or discrimination against Jews14
5667202574HumanismAn intellectual movement of the renaissance based on the study15
5667202575IndulgenceA release from all or part of punishments for sin by the catholic church16
5667202576PredestinationBelief that God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be damned17
5667202577MercantillismA set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century18
5667202578EncomiendaA system of labor the spanish used in the americas19
5667202579InflationRapid increase in prices20
5667202580Divine right of kingsThe belief that kings recieve their power from God and are responsible to only god21
5667202581PuritansEnglish protestants who thought church needed further reform and sought to simplify forms of worship22
5667202582Natural rightsThe principle set forth by charles darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others23
5667202583AbsolutismPolitical system in which ruler has total power24
5667202584MannerismAn artistic movement that emerged in Italy; marked the end of the renaissance by breaking down principles of balance, harmony, and moderationn25

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