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Vocabulary
Vikings
Medieval
Religion
Miscellaneous
100
A legal system based on custom and court rulings
What is Common Law
100
Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries.
Who were the Vikings
100
Everday language of ordinary people
What was Vernacular
100
a church court set up to try people accused of heresy
What was the Inquistion
100
Outbreak of a rapidly spreading disease
What is an Epidemic
200
The artistic decoration of books and manuscripts
What is Illumination
200
The brutality and speed of their attacks made them the most feared threat to most of western europe
Who feared the Vikings
200
Prinicple that a person cannot be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
What is the Habeas Corpus
200
A permanent division in a church
What is Schism
200
Education came from a church
What did people go to get an Education
300
An epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged europe in the 1300s
What was the Black Death
300
Due to overpopulation and the harshness of their rocky and cold enviornment they set out on a series of raids
Why did the Vikings Raid
300
The great charter approved by kniig john of England in 1215; it limited royal power and established certain rights of English Freeman
What is the Magna Carta
300
A series of wars from the 1000s through 1200s in which european christians tried to win control of the holyland
What are the Crusades
300
A house where monks can go to live
What is a Monastrie