Terms : Hide Images
| 7766366687 | Abbess | the head of a convent or monastery for women | 0 | |
| 7766379737 | Abbot | the head of a monastery | 1 | |
| 7766385407 | Arianism | a Christian heresy that taught that Jesus was inferior to God; though condemned by the Council of Nicaea in 325, it was adopted by many of the Germanic peoples who entered the Roman Empire over the next centuries | 2 | |
| 7766404398 | Caliph | the secular leader of the Islamic community | 3 | |
| 7766409694 | Celibacy | complete abstinence from sexual activity; many early Christians viewed this as the surest way to holiness | 4 | |
| 7766418151 | Curiales | city councilors in Roman cities who played an important role in governing the vast Roman Empire | 5 | |
| 7766427128 | Diocese | the area under the jurisdiction of a Christian bishop; based originally on Roman administrative districts | 6 | |
| 7766436648 | Federates | German troops enlisted in groups to fight as allies for the Romans | 7 | |
| 7766448946 | Iconoclast | a member of an eight-century Byzantine movement against the use of icons, which it condemned as idolatry | 8 | |
| 7766463021 | Jihad | "striving in the way of the Lord;" in Islam, the attempt to achieve personal betterment, although it can also mean fair, defensive fighting to preserve one's life and one's faith | 9 | |
| 7766478434 | Major Domus | the chief officer of the king's household in the Frankish kingdom | 10 | |
| 7766487753 | Monasticism | a movement that began in early Christianity whose purpose was to create communities of men and women who practiced a communal life dedicated to God as a moral example to the world around them | 11 | |
| 7766505450 | Petrine Supremacy | the doctrine that the bishop of Rome (the pope), as the successor of Saint Peter (traditionally considered the first bishop of Rome), should hold a preeminent position in the church | 12 | |
| 7766527923 | Tetrarchy | rule by four; the system of government established by Diocletian (284-305) in which the Roman Empire was divided into two parts, each ruled by an "Augustus" assisted by a "Caesar" | 13 | |
| 7766549197 | Theme | an administrative unit in the Byzantine Empire that combines civil and military responsibilities | 14 | |
| 7766561785 | Wergeld | "money for a man;" in early Germanic law, a person's value in monetary terms, paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person who had been injured or killed | 15 |
