Ch 12 Christianity Test
5th grade history ch 12 test
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- Middle Ages
- the 1,000 year period after the fall of Rome
- purgatory
- place of suffering where the souls of penitent sinners were believed to remain after death to be cleansed of sin and made ready for Heaven
- 95 Theses
- Martin Luther's list of reasons why the sale of indulgences was wrong
- catacombs
- underground passages used as cemeteries and hiding places by the Roman Christians
- Bible
- first book printed by Gutenberg
- pope
- head of the Roman church
- Apostle Paul
- first great missionary of the Christian church
- indulgence
- certificate from the pope believed to excuse a person from penance and shorten his stay in purgatory
- Johann Gutenberg
- inventor of the printing press
- hermits
- secluded monks who lived all alone in acave or hut
- Colosseum
- outdoor arena where the gladiators fought
- Inquisition
- a special court used to find and kill heretics
- martyrs
- Christians willing to to give up their lives rather than deny the Lord
- printing press
- most important invention in the history of the world
- friars
- monks who traveled and taught
- monastery
- place where monks live
- armor
- protection worn by knights
- nuns
- church women who lived together in convents
- penance
- expressions of sorrow over sin
- serfs and peasants
- people who worked the land in the Middle Ages
- pilgrimage
- long trip taken for religious purposes
- gladiators
- armed fighters of the Colosseum
- moat
- deep ditch of water around a castle
- Nero
- persecuted the Christians of Rome and made it a crime to be a Christian
- lords
- landowners of the Middle Ages
- A.D.
- means "in the year of our Lord"
- Constantine
- claimed to conquer by a cross he had seen in the sky
- kinghts
- trained warriors dressed in armor
- John Wycliffe
- first person to translate the entire Bible into the English language and known as the "Morning Star of the Reformation"
- monks
- men who kept the Bible safe from invaders, kept themselves from the world and promised to live a life of poverty and never marry and also wrote out copies of the Bible by hand