Where in the world?
a distance north or south of the equator, measured by degrees.
Latitude
a place where people go to watch plays.
Theater
any teaching that is contrary to the accepted and traditional or orthodox teaching of a religion.
Heresy
a Dutch word meaning shoe or clog.
Klompen
a measured amount of food and water given to a person daily.
Ration
a waterway dug through land in order for small ships or boats to pass.
Canal
a picture or design made from small pieces of colored tile, glass, or wood, usually on a floor or wall.
Mosaic
a place where monks could live a life devoted to God apart from the world, under vows and according to a
fixed rule or order.
Monastery
clothing; garb
Apparel
deer meat
Venison
a place along a coast where ships can be sheltered from storms; in towns or cities, a place where ships can load and
unload their cargo.
Port
the art of carving or modeling a figure, often made from stone, clay, or some kind of metal.
Sculpture
the belief that is taught in a church; the central teachings or beliefs of a religion.
Doctrine
a small object or piece of jewelry worn in order to keep away evil spirits or to prevent other kinds of harm.
Amulet
a substance that cleans a wound and prevents infection.
Antiseptic
crossing a continent or continents.
Transcontinental
a painting done with watercolors on a damp, fresh plaster wall or ceiling.
Fresco
a Muslim house of prayer, and also the center of Islamic social, legislative, judicial, and military activity.
Mosque
a slender plant whose stem is used to make linen.
flax
the four body fluids that in ancient and medieval times were thought to determine a person’s health; the humors
were blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
Humors
a distance east or west of the prime meridian (a line that runs from the North to the South Pole, through
Greenwich, England), measured by degrees.
Longitude
a temporary structure built against a wall that enables people to build the wall or paint on it.
Scaffold
a short, wise saying that gives instruction about how to live life well.
Proverb
something that is pleasant but not essential for life; this includes spices, fine cloth or silk, perfumes, etc.
Luxury
a hard, dry biscuit, eaten especially by sailors because it lasts for a long time without spoiling.
Hardtack