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| 129005810 | 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. | 0 | |
| 129005811 | Three- field System | A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. | 1 | |
| 129005812 | Water Wheel | A mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery. | 2 | |
| 129005813 | Hanseatic Leauge | German towns assuciation to protect trading interests (dominated Europe for 150+ years) | 3 | |
| 129005814 | Guild | Merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. | 4 | |
| 129005815 | Gothic Cathedral | Large churches | 5 | |
| 129005816 | Renaissance | the revival of learning and culture | 6 | |
| 129005817 | Universities | Groups of people devoted to learning | 7 | |
| 129005818 | Scholorasticism | A philosophical and theological system devised to roconcile Aristotellian philosophy | 8 | |
| 129005819 | Humanists | European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the fifteenth century and later. | 9 | |
| 129005820 | Printing Press | A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. | 10 | |
| 129005821 | Great Western Schism | a division in the latin christian church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon | 11 | |
| 129005822 | Hundred Years War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. | 12 | |
| 129005823 | Reconquest of Iberia | Beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms. | 13 | |
| 129005824 | Indulgence | a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin | 14 | |
| 129005825 | Protestant Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | 15 | |
| 129005826 | Scientific Revolution | associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics | 16 | |
| 129005827 | Enlightment | movement that began in Europe in the late 1600s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government; also called the age of reason | 17 | |
| 129005828 | Bourgeosie | middle class | 18 | |
| 129005829 | Joint-Stock Company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. | 19 | |
| 129005830 | Little Ice Age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. | 20 | |
| 129005831 | Deforestation | the removal of trees | 21 | |
| 129005832 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 22 | |
| 129005833 | Balance of Power | an equilibrium of power between nations | 23 |
