Religion
Law
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
100

This means non-religious

What is secular?

100

An assembly of representatives who make laws.

What is Parliament?

100

A court order to bring an arrested person before a judge or court.

What is Habeas Corpus?

100

The Muslims in Spain

Who are the Moors?

200

A belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine.

What is heresy?

200

A body of law that has developed from custom and from judges decisions rather than from laws passed by a lawmaking assembly.

What is common law?

200

An extreme scarcity of food.

What is famine?

200

Unsuccessful revolt by peasants against feudal lords in England in 1381.

What is the Peasants' Revolt?

300

Journey undertaken to worship at a religious place.

What is pilgrimage?

300

A system of law courts outside the control of other branches of government.

What is Judiciary?

300

A series of military campaigns to establish Chrisitian control over the Holy Land.

What are the Crusades?

300

Destructive war between France and England that lasted from 1337 to 1453.

What is the Hundred Years War?

400

To exclude a person from a church or a religious community.

What is excommunicate?

400

A document that promised barons certain rights.

What is the Magna Carta?

400

Having to do with the law.

What is legal?

400

Area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population or history.

What is a region?

500

A series of investigations designed to find and judge heretics.

What is an Inquisition?

500

A court order.

What is a Writ?

500

The movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

What is the Reconquista?

500

A deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats.

What is the Black Plague?