Section 13 Vocab Flashcards
Inquisition
a special court that tried cases of heresy
indulgence
a declaration by church authorities that someone who says certain prayers or does good deeds will have all of their punishment in Purgatory remitted
Iron Age
people learned to extract iron from ore and use it to forge tools and weapons
Joan of Arc
a French military leader who at the age of seventeen took up arms to establish the rightful king on the French throne; claimed to have heard God speak to her; these claims eventually led to her trial for heresy and her execution
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator in the first century B.C.; on a subsequent campaign in Asia he reported to the senate, “I came, I saw, I conquered.”; was assassinated by his friend Brutus and others on the senate floor on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.
knight
a mounted warrior in the Middle Ages
Latin
the language of ancient Rome
Ferdinand Magellan
his crew was the first to sail around the Earth, although Magellan himself was killed on the voyage
Magna Carta
list of rights and privileges that King John of England signed under pressure from English noblemen
Battle of Marathon
ancient Greeks defeated a much larger army of the Persian Empire
Mayas
a Native American people in what is now Mexico and northern Central America until around 1600
Medici
patrons of the arts who lived in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance
medieval
descriptive term for the Middle Ages
Mesopotamia
region known as the “cradle of civilization”
Middle Ages
began with the Fall of Rome and ended with the Renaissance
