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Daimyo
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Japanese feudal lords from 10 to 19 century. Hereditary land owners who answered only to the Shogun.
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Troubadour
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A composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Occitan is where south of France and Monacco and parts of Italy now are.
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Columbian Exchange
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The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations,communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade (including African/American slave trade) after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.
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Feif
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The central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.
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Schism
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Medieval Schism - East - west splitdivided into western Roman Catholic & Easter Onthodox branches (1054)
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Feudalism
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Flourished in Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. A way of structuring society around relationships from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor.
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Three-field system
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A regime of crop rotation in use in medieval and early-modern Europe. Autumn with winter wheat or rye; the second field was planted with other crops such as peas, lentils, or beans; and the third was left unplanted to give it a chance to regain its nutrients.
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Tithe
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One-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.
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Inuits
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Once known as Eskimos. Inhabit Alaska, Canada, Greenland Predestination;Doctrine that all events have been willed by God
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Papal supremacy
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The doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that the pope has full, supreme over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.
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Guild
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An association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town. They often depended on grants of letters patent by a monarch or other authority to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials.
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Jan and Hubert Van Eyck
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Hubert was an Early Netherlandish painter who's younger brother was Jan van Eyck.
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Charlemagne
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The first recognized Roman emperor in Western Europe (768) since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
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Diet of Worms (Worms - a German town)
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A Diet was a formal deliberative assembly (men discussing policy). It is most memorable for the Edict of Worms, which addressed Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.
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Lorenzo Medici
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An Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known for sponsoring artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo.
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Calvinism
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A major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Opposed by many lutherans. Many Calvinists believe in Predestination.
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Predestination
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Doctrine that all events have been willed by God
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Michelangelo
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Italian sculptor,painter,architect in Renaissance . Statue of David, painted Sistine Chapel
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Spanish conquistador, conquered Peru and Mexico. Cousin of Hernando Cortes
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Hernando Cortes
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Spanish conquistador - led expedition that caused fall of Aztec Empire
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Albrecht Durer
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German painter, printmaker. Greatest artist of German Renaissance. Copper engravings
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Machiaveli
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From Florence Italy. Historian, Politician, diplomat. Wrote "The Prince", founder of political science.
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