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| 112344048 | Magna Carta | This document, signed by King John of Endland in 1215, is the cornerstone of English justice and law. It declared that the king and government were bound by the same laws as other citizens of England. It contained the antecedents of the ideas of due process and the right to a fair and speedy trial that are included in the protection offered by the U.S. Bill of Rights | 0 | |
| 112344049 | Vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | 1 | |
| 112344050 | Canterbury Tales | English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)/a book written by Geoffrey Chaucer are stories that a group of pilgrims tell to entertain each other as they travel to the shrine of Saint Thoman Becket in Canterbury. Fictional stories | 2 | |
| 112344051 | 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 | 3 | |
| 112344052 | Three-field system | -grew crops on 2/3 of the land and the remaining third in oats | 4 | |
| 112344053 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons -boils in groin and armpit -black skin blotches -foul body odor -severe pain -death in a few days | 5 | |
| 112344054 | Water Wheel | A mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery. It was used in many parts of the world but was especially common in Europe from 1200 to 1900 | 6 | |
| 112344055 | Hanseatic League | A powerful, united group of merchants who controlled a great deal of trade from Sweden to central Europe. They monopolized the northern grain trade, and had exclusive rights to export Scandinavian fish from Denmark to the rest of Europe. | 7 | |
| 112344056 | Guild | A medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people | 8 | |
| 112344057 | Gothic Cathedral/Architecture | Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows | 9 | |
| 112344058 | Renaissance | The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 10 | |
| 112344059 | Universities | In mid 1100's students and teachers organized academic guilds and persuaded politicians to guarantee their rights. Student guilds demanded fair treatment for students from townspeople, who sometimes charged excessively for room and board and called on teachers to provide high-quality instruction. This transformed the cathedral schools. These appear throughout Europe by late 13th century (Paris, Cambridge, Oxford, Salamanca, Naples, and Seville) | 11 |
