Terms Flashcards
Craft guild
Associations formed by skilled workers
Journeyman
Skilled artisan who completed his apprenticeship
Czar
Russian word for Caesar
Justinian
Emperor of Byzantine empire
Iconoclast
Byzantines who worked opposed the use of icons for worship
Estates General
A representative body that was drawn from the 3 major classes of French society -clergy,nobility and commoners
Primogeniture
System where the eldest son would inherit his father’s land
Orthodox
Christian church in Eastern Roman Empire
Geocentric theory
Theory that said Earth is at the center of the universe
Mosaics
Pictures of designs formed from in laid pieces of stone ,glass,or enamel
First crusade
1096-1099 pope urban 2 + French Norman nobles led the first crusade moved across Europe to Constantinople.
3rd crusade
1186-1192 salah-al-bih recaptured Jerusalem each started but to regain the holy land
Tithe
Church tax collected.1/10% of Christians income.
Heliocentric theory
Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe
Interdict
Church’s punishment of an entire region closing church’s plus with holding sacraments.
Jihad
Struggle to defend the faith.
Indulgences
Pardons from church for punishments for sin
Icons
Small religious pictures set up in a church or home or arrived on a journey as aids to worship
Excommunication
Official interdict that a person from church membership and from taking part in any church ceremonies
Predestination
Belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would be saved
Mosques
Muslim places of worship
Monastism
Way of life in monasticism convents in which Christians withdraw from the world to leads life of prayer.