Adapted from "The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History," 5th ed., Chapter 14
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| 292035950 | Latin West | the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange | 0 | |
| 292035951 | three-field system | a rotational system for agriculture in which two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow | 1 | |
| 292035954 | Black Death | an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century | 2 | |
| 292035955 | water wheel | a mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery | 3 | |
| 292035957 | Hanseatic League | an economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany | 4 | |
| 292035959 | guild | an association of men such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests | 5 | |
| 292035962 | Gothic cathedrals | large churches originating in twelfth century France | 6 | |
| 292035963 | Renaissance | a period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture | 7 | |
| 292035965 | universities | degree-granting institutions of higher learning | 8 | |
| 292035967 | scholasticism | a philosophical and theological system devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy in the thirteenth century | 9 | |
| 292035969 | humanists | European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities | 10 | |
| 292035971 | printing press | a mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woordblock or type to paper using ink | 11 | |
| 292035973 | Great Western Schism | a division in the Latin Christian Church when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon | 12 | |
| 292035975 | Hundred Years War | series of campaigns over control of the throne of France | 13 | |
| 292035977 | new monarchies | the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450-1600 | 14 | |
| 292035979 | reconquest of Iberia | beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims | 15 |
