Extra credit assigment 6: High Middle Ages Voacbulary

High Middle Ages Voacbulary

Celtic: scottish, Irish and Welsh.
English common law: where the decisions of royal courts became part of the law and a basis for future decisions.
Precedents: what came before.
Trial by jury: juicio por jurado. A group of people who decide if someone is guilty or not.
Veredict: decision
Guilty: that someone is responsible of the crime.
Not guilty: that someone is not responsible for the crime.
Unanimous: that everyone voted for the same thing.
Royal exchequer: a treasury that collected taxes, fees, and fine for money to run the government.
Cathredal: is were the bishop give the mass
Magna Carta: an agreement where the king John gives up to a part of his power.
Nobles: aristocracy
Charter: document that grants rights.
Rightl: legal, social, or ethical prinicples of freedom.
Absolute monarchy: when the king has all the power.
English parlament: a group of people who made some decisions with the king. Ruled with the king.
Clergy: the body of people ordained for religious service.
Parliment: in frecnh means talking.
Legislature: law.making body.
Bicameral: a legislature with 2 chambers (lords and commons).
Unicameral: A legislature with 1 chamber.
Decentralized: spead out among many smal units.
Centralized: the center mantained strong control.
Fragmented: broken up into small units.
Headquartered: a military centre were operations are directed. 
Great Schism: split
Lay investure: when the king decided who the bishops were going to be. 
Concordant of warms: an agreement that stablished  the church  is just authorized to select the bishops.
Holy see: the administration of the chatolic church.
Vulgate: the translation of the original bible (greek) into the latin one by St. Jerome. 
Vernacular languages: everyday languages.
Burned at the stick: burned a live tight on a stick.
Pilmigrates: journeys to holy or sacred places. 
Remisison of sins: Time off from pulgatory. 
Heathens and infidels: unbelievers and outsiders.
Holy war: when knights and devote christians set out for Jerusalem.
Mercenaries: soldiers for hire, who often fight for countries or armies other than their own.
French Foreign Legion: A mercenary squad.
Papacy: office of the pope.
Ideology: Values and beliefs.
Manoralism: feudalism
Hanseatic league: an alliance for merchants in city-states in (now) northern Germany nad the baltic sea region. 
Silk road: called like this because silk fabric from China was highly prized in Europe and transported by this route.
Moorish artistic style: Domes.
Epidemic: an ill that spreads all over the world.
Vermin: rats and fleas

Hygiene: cleanliness habits.
Disease vector: any way that a disease is spread (air, sexually,etc.)
Contagious. Transmissible by direct or indirect contact.
Pestilence: a fatal epidemic desease. Bubonic plague.
Labor: work/ a specific task.
Inflation: high prices.
Longbow: a powerful hand-drwn bow used in medieval england.
Cannon: a large mounted weapon that fires projectiles.
Seven liberal arts: arithmetics, geometric, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, and religion.
Theology: study of love and religion.
Scholasticism: phylosophy based in the classroom and the study of books.

Stained glass: glass colored by pigments. Located in churches.
Iluminated manuscripts: the beautiful books with colored art.
Infidels: Non believers of your religion.