| A | B |
| clergy | church officials |
| medeival | Latin word for middle ages |
| middle ages | between ancient and modern times |
| monks | men dedicated to the church |
| monasteries | place where monks live and pray |
| vassal | person who promises loyalty to a lord |
| knight | warrior on horseback |
| manor | estate with castle, pastures, fields |
| chivarly | code of honor for knights |
| serfs | peasants tied to the land they lived on |
| protestants | people who left catholic church |
| feudalism | system of obligations during middle ages |
| Gutenberg | German;invented printing press |
| Luther | German; led the Reformation |
| Michelangelo | Italian; painted Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian; painted Mona Lisa |
| King Henry VIII | English King; formed Anglican Church |
| John Calvin | Christian reformer; taught predestination |
| Shakespeare | English poet and playwright |
| Crusades | series of Holy Wars |
| Muslims, Christians, Jews | religious groups of Crusades |
| Roman Catholic | church of Middle Ages |
| Heraldry | symbols to identify knights |
| Bible | first published book |
| Humanism | renaissance philosophy |
| Jerusalem | Holy Land |
| Ancient classics | Roman and Greek |
| page, squire, knight | steps to knighthood |