Part 3 (2nd Semester 2024/2025)

Question 1

Byzantine

Answer 1

word used by historians to describe the eastern Roman empire after the fall of the western Roman empire

Question 2

Cease

Answer 2

to stop

Question 3

Chivalry

Answer 3

code of conduct in medieval Europe that required knights to be brave, loyal, and honest

Question 4

Clergy

Answer 4

people who are trained and ordained for religious services

Question 5

Common Law

Answer 5

a body of law that has developed from custom and from judges’ decisions rather than from laws passed by a lawmaking assembly

Question 6

Crop Rotation

Answer 6

practice of changing the use of fields over time

Question 7

Crusades

Answer 7

a series of military campaigns to establish Christian control over the Holy Land

Question 8

Cyrillic Alphabet

Answer 8

alphabet used mostly for slavic languages such as Russian and Bulgarian, as well as for other languages

Question 9

Draft

Answer 9

drawing or pulling, as of a load

Question 10

Excommunicate

Answer 10

to exclude a person from a church or a religious community

Question 11

Fallow

Answer 11

unplanted

Question 12

Fief

Answer 12

estate granted by a lord to a vassal

Question 13

Guild

Answer 13

association of people who have a common interest

Question 14

Habeas Corpus

Answer 14

a court order to bring an arrested person before a judge or court

Question 15

Heresy

Answer 15

a belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine

Question 16

Iberian Peninsula

Answer 16

the peninsula where present-day Spain and Portugal are located

Question 17

Impact

Answer 17

to have a strong and often bad effect on (something or someone)

Question 18

Inquisition

Answer 18

a series of investigations designed to find and judge heretics

Question 19

Judiciary

Answer 19

a system of law courts outside the control of other branches of government

Question 20

Knight

Answer 20

warrior mounted on horseback

Question 21

Legal

Answer 21

having to do with the law

Question 22

Loyalty

Answer 22

the state of being faithful

Question 23

Magna Carta

Answer 23

a document that promised barons certain rights

Question 24

Manor

Answer 24

self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

Question 25

Medieval

Answer 25

from the Latin for "middle age," relating to the Middle Ages

Question 26

Middle Ages

Answer 26

period between ancient times and modern times, roughly from 500 to 1500 CE

Question 27

Migrate

Answer 27

to move from one region to another in order to live there

Question 28

Missionary

Answer 28

someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion

Question 29

Moat

Answer 29

trench filled with water as part of a fortification

Question 30

Moors

Answer 30

the Muslims in Spain

Question 31

Parliament

Answer 31

an assembly of representatives who make laws

Question 32

Pilgrimage

Answer 32

journey undertaken to worship at a religious place

Question 33

Reconquista

Answer 33

the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

Question 34

Region

Answer 34

area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population or history

Question 35

Secular

Answer 35

nonreligious

Question 36

Serf

Answer 36

a peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

Question 37

Strait

Answer 37

narrow body of water that cuts through land, connecting two larger bodies of water

Question 38

Three Field System

Answer 38

system of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year

Question 39

Topography

Answer 39

physical features of a place

Question 40

Unite

Answer 40

to bring together

Question 41

Vassal

Answer 41

in medieval Europe, a nobleman who received land from other noblemen in return for his service

Question 42

Writ

Answer 42

a court order