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    Andres Robles

    A.P. World History P.2


    Western Europe During the Middle Ages

    Aachen

    The capital of the Carolingian Empire.

    Al-Andalus

    Islamic Spain.

    Albigensian Crusade

    The attack and systematic killing of Cathars, a religious group accused of heresy, in southern France.

    Capetian

    Early French dynasty that started with Hugh Capet.

    Carolingians

    Germanic dynasty that was named after its most famous member, Charlemagne.

    Cathars

    Medieval heretics, also known as the Albigensians, who considered the material world evil; their followers
    renounced wealth and marriage and promoted an ascetic existence.

    Cathedral Schools

    Schools organized by bishops and archbishops in France and northern Italy whose liberal arts curricula often offered
    instruction in law, medicine, and theology.

    Chivalry

    European medieval concept, a code of conduct for the knights based on loyalty and honor.

    Christianity

    Religion emerging from Middle East in the first century C.E. holding Jesus to be the son of God who sacrificed
    himself on behalf of mankind.

    Crusades

    Campaigns by Christian knights to seize the holy lands that led to trade with Muslims and the importation of Muslim
    ideas regarding science and mathematics.
    Fief

    A grant of land from a lord to a vassal.

    Guilds

    Socially significant groups of craftspeople who regulated the production, sale, and quality of manufactured goods.

    Hanseatic League

    Association of trading cities in northern Europe linked by major rivers to the Mediterranean.

    Heavy Plow

    Device of the sixth century permitting the turning of heavy northern soils, rotating crops, and increased agricultural
    production.

    Holy Roman Empire

    Central and western European kingdom created at the Treaty of Verdun in in 843 and lasting until 1806.

    Investiture

    One aspect of the medieval European church versus state controversy, the granting of church offices by a lay leader.

    Islam

    Monotheistic religion of the prophet Muhammad (570-632); influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad
    was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture; the Qu'ran is the holy
    book of Islam.

    Muslim

    A follower of Islam.

    Oprichnina

    A Russian term meaning the "land apart," Muscovite territory that the Russian Tsar Ivan IV (r. 1533-1584)
    demanded to control; the tsar created a new class of nobles called the oprichniki for this territory.

    Relics

    Revered artifacts from saints that inspired pilgrimages to cities such as Rome, Compostela, and Jerusalem.
    Sacraments

    Christian rite mediating or symbolizing divine grace.

    Schism

    Divide that occurs between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in 1054 as a result of political tensions
    and ritual and doctrinal differences.

    Scholasticism

    Medieval attempt of thinkers like St. Thomas Aquinas to merge the beliefs of Christianity with the logical rigor of
    Greek philosophy.

    St. Petersburg

    New capital built by Peter the Great in 1703. Known as the "window on the west," the city served as headquarters
    for the navy and government.

    Table of Ranks

    Bureaucratic reform enacted by Peter the Great allowing social mobility for civil servants by merit and service.

    Teutonic Knights

    Crusading European order that was active in the Baltic region.

    Three Estates

    Term for the social classes of the spiritual estate (clergy), the military estate (feudal nobles), and the estate of
    peasants and serfs.
    Troubadours

    Minstrels and storytellers, often patronized by aristocratic women, who drew inspiration from the love poetry of
    Muslim Spain.

    Vinland

    The area of modern Newfoundland colonized by Vikings led by Leif Ericsson.

    Waldensians

    Twelfth-century religious reformers who criticized the Roman Catholic church and who proposed that the laity had
    the right to preach and administer sacraments; they were declared heretics.

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