social studies- medevil times...unfortunately...not the resteraunt...
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- Paul
- a religious leader who preached to gentiles as well as jews and helped to establish and strengthen the christian religon
- peasant
- a small farmer, tenant, sharecropper, laborer: a country person
- oath
- a solemn promise, often carrying the threat of punishment if broken
- script
- written letters and words
- William the Conqueror
- the duke who conqured england and became its king
- crucify
- to put to death by nailing or tying to a cross
- serf
- a person legally tied to the land
- ritual
- a rigid set of rules tobe followed exactly
- feudal
- the social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord
- apostle
- one of the twelve early followers to Jesus
- bridle
- a harness with a bit and reins for a horse
- waterwheel
- a large wheel turned by running water to provide power
- overland
- across land rather then sea
- Leif Ericson
- an explorer who landed somewhere on the coast of north america
- strait
- narrow passage linking two bodies of water
- monarch
- in medieval times, an all-powerful ruler of a nation or empire
- missionary
- someone who goes or is sent on a special errand: often for the purpose of spreading a religion
- patriarch
- a religous leader of teh church of constantinople
- Mohammed
- the prophet and founder of the moselm religon
- drought
- a long period without rain orother precipitation
- duke
- a noble of the highest hereditary rank
- manor
- a large medival estate with farmalands, village, and teh home of the owner, who collected goods and services from teh villagers
- icon
- a painting of a saint or holy person
- Pope
- highest officialof the Roman Catholic Church
- plague
- a seriouse disease, often causing death, that spreads rapidly among people
- blacksmith
- one who works with iron, making and mending tools and horseshoes
- persecute
- to harm or injure
- miller
- one who runs machinery for grinding grain into flour
- convert
- to change someone's belief from one religon to another
- bishop
- a high ranking church officer
- testimony
- statement made for the purpose fo proving something
- unify
- to bring together into one whole
- Justinian
- a great Byzantine emperor
- paradise
- heaven, or a place of lasting and perfect happiness
- knight
- a high-ranking solider of the Middle Ages who recieved this title from a sovereign
- ordeal
- a difficult, perhaps even painful or dangerous test
- Constantine
- an emperor who allowed christianity to be preached freely among his people
- scythe
- a tool with a long curved blade and long handle used for cutting grass and grain
- Charlemagne
- the king who was crowned emperor of the holy roman empire in 800 A.D.
- Constantinople
- the capitol of the Byzantine empire
- frontier
- the area beyond the boarder of a country
- Jesus Christ
- One whose teachings and life form teh basis of the Christian religion
- steppe
- a large treeless plain, found especially in southeast Europe or Asia
- raid
- an attack