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Vassal
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A
noble who served a lord of higher rank
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Guild
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Medieval
business groups formed by craftsmen and merchants
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Clergy
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They
were people who had been ordained as priests.
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Scholasticism
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A
new way of thinking that used reason to explore questions of faith.
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Missionary
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A
person who travels to carry the ideas of a religion to others
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Fjord
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A steep sided valley that is an inlet of the sea
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Fief
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Under Feudalism, the land a lord granted to a vassal in exchange for
military service and loyalty
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Heresy
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The term for religious beliefs that conflict with church teachings
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Reconquista
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This was the struggle by Christians to take back the Iberian Peninsula
from the Muslims
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Feudalism
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A political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals
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Excommunicate
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To declare that a person or group no longer belongs to the church
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Knight
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In the Middle Ages, a warrior who fought on horseback
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Concordat
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An agreement between the pope and the ruler of a country
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Plague
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A disease that spreads quickly and kills many people
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Serf
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A peasant laborer bound by law to the lands of a noble
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