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| 251417532 | Abbess | head of a convent for nuns | 0 | |
| 251417533 | Abbot | head of a monastary | 1 | |
| 251417534 | Anti-Semitism | hostility toward or discrimination against | 2 | |
| 251417535 | Benfice | in the Christian Church, a position, such as a bishopric, that consisted of both a sacred office and the right of the border to the annual revenes from the position | 3 | |
| 251417536 | Black Death | the outbreak of plague (mostly bubonic) in the mid-fourteenth century that killed from 25 to 50 percent of Europe's population | 4 | |
| 251417537 | Chivalry | the ideal of civilized behavior that emerged among the nobility in the eleventh and twelfth centuries under the influence of the church; a code of ethnics knights were expected to hold | 5 | |
| 251417538 | Commercial Capitalism | economic system in which people invested in trade and goods in order to make a profit | 6 | |
| 251417539 | Common Law | law common to the entire kingdom of England, imposed by the king's courts beginning in the twelfth century to replace the customary law used in country and feudal courts that varied from place to place | 7 | |
| 251417540 | Demesne | the part of a manor retained under the direct control of the lord and worked by the serfs as part of their labor services | 8 | |
| 251417541 | Diocese | the area under the jurisdiction of a christian bishop | 9 | |
| 251417542 | Fief | a landed estate granted to a vassal in exhange for military services | 10 | |
| 251417543 | Gothic | architectural style that reached peak in thirteen century, marked by ribbed vaults, pointed arches, and flying buttresses | 11 | |
| 251417544 | Great Schism | the crisis in the late medieval church when there were first two and then three popes; ended by the Council of Constance | 12 | |
| 251417545 | Guild | an association of pople with common interests and concerns, especially people working in the same craft | 13 | |
| 251417546 | Heresy | a teaching different from the official of universal beliefs of the church | 14 | |
| 251417547 | Lay Investiture | the practive in which a layperson chose a bishop and invested him with the symbols of both his temporal office and his spiritual office | 15 | |
| 251417548 | Liberal Arts | the seven areas of study that formed the basis of education in medieval and early modern Europe | 16 | |
| 251417549 | Manor | an agricutural estate operated by a lord and worked by peasants who performed labor services and paid various rents adn fees to the lord in exchange for protection and sustenance | 17 | |
| 251417550 | Missi Dominici | "messengers of the lord king", two officials who were sent out by Charlemagne to ensure that the counts were following the King's orders | 18 | |
| 251417551 | Monasticism | key to spread of Christianity in Europe, group of monks living together to devote time to religious and social service, influence of Saint Benedict | 19 | |
| 251417552 | Pograms | massacres, as in the pogroms launched against the Jews of Germany in 1351 | 20 | |
| 251417553 | Renaissance | French for "rebirth", intellectual and artistic movement launched in Italy and spread out to rest of Europe | 21 | |
| 251417554 | Rhetoric | the art of persuasive speaking, in the Middle Ages, one of the Seven Liberal Arts | 22 | |
| 251417555 | Romanesque | populr architectural style seen in cathedrals in the eleventh and twelfth centurties, built in basilica shape | 23 | |
| 251417556 | Scholasticism | the philosophical and theological system of the medieval schools which emphasized rigorous analysis of contradictory authorities | 24 | |
| 251417557 | Serf | a peasant who is bound to the land and obliged to provide labor services and pay various rents and fees to the lord, considered unfree but not a slave | 25 | |
| 251417558 | Subinfeudation | the practice in which a lord's greatest vassals subdivided their fiefs and had cassals of their own | 26 | |
| 252370941 | Three-field system | in medieval agriculture, the practice of dividing the arable land into three fields so that one could lie fallow while the others were planted in winter grains and spring crops | 27 | |
| 252370942 | Vassal | a person granted a fief, or landed estate, in exchange for providing military services to the lord and fulfilling certain other obligations | 28 | |
| 252370943 | Wergeld | "money for a man" in early Germanic law, a person's value in monetary terms, which was paid by a wrong-does to the family of the person who had been injured or killed | 29 | |
| 252370944 | Yersinia Pestia | bacteria that caused the Black Death | 30 |
