Chapter 14 (Unit 1 - 2)

Question 1

to use a language or dialect that is associated with a particular group of people: not formal or Latin; the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Answer 1

Vernacular

Question 2

a large area of land that was ruled over by a lord medieval times : a feudal estate.

Answer 2

Fief

Question 3

the state of being divided, broken off or detached.

Answer 3

Fragmentation

Question 4

a division among the members of a group that occurs because they disagree about something.

Answer 4

Schism

Question 5

to not allow (someone) to continue being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 5

Excommunicate

Question 6

the act of placing or keeping someone away from other people.

Answer 6

Seclusion

Question 7

an organized group of people who have joined together because they share the same job or interest;
especially an association of people who made or sold goods in the Middle Ages.

Answer 7

Guild

Question 7

an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting, arguing, for a certain period of time.

Answer 7

Truce

Question 8

a person in the past who received protection and land from a lord in return for loyalty and service; a
person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty.

Answer 8

Vassal

Question 9

A Fifteenth Century movement in Europe that was influenced by the classical age of the Greeks and the Romans and studied grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages and moral philosophy.

Answer 9

Humanists