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WorksheetsLate Middle Ages Vocab
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is the definition of crusades?
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
Series of wars between England and France, from 1337 to 1453
Military expeditions undertaken by Christians of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
People with priestly authority in a religion.
What is the definition of habeas corpus?
A member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century.
Law requiring a person to be brought before a judge used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
People with priestly authority in a religion.
A period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession.
What is the definition of parliament?
Group of representatives with powers in government.
A group of individuals who live under religious rules.
A serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever weakness, and the formation of buboes.
A member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
What is the definition of an inquisition?
A member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century.
The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
Law requiring a person to be brought before a judge used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
What is the definition of reconquista?
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
A council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire.
An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland.
A form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
A council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire.
A serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever weakness, and the formation of buboes.
To be cut off from communicating with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church.
Series of wars between England and France, from 1337 to 1453
What is the Black Death?
People with priestly authority in a religion.
A serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever weakness, and the formation of buboes.
A form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century.
An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
The Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.
A council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire.
Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
What is the Holy Land?
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
A region in what is now Israel and Palestine, revered by Christians as the place in which Jesus Christ lived.
During the Ottoman empire, a community a group abiding by the laws of Muslim Sharia, Christian Canon law, or Jewish Halakha) that was allowed to rule itself under its own laws.
A group of individuals who live under religious rules.
What is papacy?
The “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
People with priestly authority in a religion.
The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
During the Ottoman empire, a community a group abiding by the laws of Muslim Sharia, Christian Canon law, or Jewish Halakha) that was allowed to rule itself under its own laws.
What is the definition of religious order?
The “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
A group of individuals who live under religious rules.
Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
Law requiring a person to be brought before a judge used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
What is the Great Schism?
A period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession.
Series of wars between England and France, from 1337 to 1453
Military expeditions undertaken by Christians of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
A member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century.
What is the definition of millets?
People with priestly authority in a religion.
During the Ottoman empire, a community a group abiding by the laws of Muslim Sharia, Christian Canon law, or Jewish Halakha) that was allowed to rule itself under its own laws.
The Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.
Series of wars between England and France, from 1337 to 1453
What are janissaries?
People with priestly authority in a religion.
A member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
Group of representatives with powers in government.
A member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century.
What is the definition of divan?
A council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire.
Series of wars between England and France, from 1337 to 1453
Military expeditions undertaken by Christians of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
To be cut off from communicating with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church.
What is the definition of buboes?
A serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever weakness, and the formation of buboes.
A form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century.
A member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland.
What is the definition of excommunicate?
A period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession.
Law requiring a person to be brought before a judge used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
To be cut off from communicating with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church.
Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
What is the Magna Carta?
A group of individuals who live under religious rules.
The “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
A council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire.
What is a clergy?
A group of individuals who live under religious rules.
People with priestly authority in a religion.
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
A region in what is now Israel and Palestine, revered by Christians as the place in which Jesus Christ lived.
What are friars?
A member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century.
An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland.
Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors.
A member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
What is a bubonic plague?
An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland.
A serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever weakness, and the formation of buboes.
To be cut off from communicating with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church.
A form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century.
