HWH Unit 4 Vocabulary

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Worship of one god

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Monotheism

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Class of Chinese officials who passes civil service exams to work in the bureaucracy

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Scholar-gentry

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A division over a difference of opinion, generally used in the case of split over religious differences

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Schism

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A form of political organization that is characterized by a relationship between a lord and a vassal where the lord exchanges land for military service from the vassal

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Feudalism

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Holy wars fought to recapture the Holy Land from its Muslim rulers; participants were promised salvation.

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Crusades

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Nobles; given land by their rulers in exchange for military service; had their own small armies of knights

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Lords

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Signed by King John of England in 1215; guaranteed all freemen the right to a trial by jury and forced the king to obtain consent of the nobles for most new taxes.

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Magna Carta

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A religious leader in the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Patriarch

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Religious leader of the Roman Catholic Church

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Pope

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Collection of all existing Roman laws, organized into a single code.

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Code of Justinian