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| 255952867 | three-field system | a system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farm land was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted. | 0 | |
| 255952868 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 1 | |
| 255952869 | water wheel | a wheel that rotates by direct action of water -used during the Middle Ages | 2 | |
| 255952870 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. (p. 401) | 3 | |
| 255952871 | gulid | an association of tradespeople made up of merchant | 4 | |
| 255952872 | Gothic cathedral | a style of architecture that was popular in medieval europe. Included rose windows, stained glass, flying buttresses, and gargoyles | 5 | |
| 255952873 | 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 | 6 | |
| 255952874 | printing press | a machine that mechanically prints pages invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1454; first book was Gutenberg Bible; changed private and public lives of Europeans; used for war declarations, battle accounts, treaties, propaganda; laid basis for formation of distinct political parties; enhanced literacy, people sought books on all subjects [very important] | 7 | |
| 255952875 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411) | 8 | |
| 255952876 | Hundred Years War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. 1337- 1453 | 9 | |
| 255952877 | new monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits. | 10 | |
| 255952878 | reconquest | the 500-year struggle by Spanish Christian kingdoms to recover Spain from the Muslims (late 1000s) | 11 |
