Chapter 1/Global section Flashcards
Feudalism
Political, social, military, and economic structure/beliefs.
Charlemagne
King of the franks
Empower of the Holy Roman Empire
Chivalry
Group of Knights
Magna Carta
“Great charter”, fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties
Take away rights of the King
Impact of the crusades
Crusades- attempts by the catholic church to recover holy lands form the Muslims
- lead to trade and money
Middle class
the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like
Vernacular
Original language of the people that live their
Holy Roman Empire
Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope
Ottoman Empire
a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century
Five pillars of Islam
They make up Muslim life, prayer, concern for the needy, self purification and the pilgrimage (hajj)
Koran
Sacred text of Islam divided into 114 chapters
Muhammad
Arab prophet, founder of Islam
What was the meaning of the renaissance?
the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world
Humanism
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate
Florence
Capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany