| A | B |
|---|
| St Francis of Assisi | a wealthy man who gave up everything to preach as a friar |
| King Richard I | English king who led the Third crusade |
| Charlemagne | A king and warrior that helped to build the Frankish Empire |
| Pope Urban the II | Called for Christians to join and free the Holy Land |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | He supported the idea of natural law and was a teacher/monk |
| clergy | church officials |
| serfs | workers who were tied to the land in which they lived |
| Spanish Inquisition | an organiztion of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain of secretly practicing their old religion |
| Heresy | ideas that opposed church teachings |
| Black Death | a deadly plague that swept through Europe |
| Parliament | the law making body that governs England today |
| Natural Law | law that governed how the world operated |
| Monastery | a community of monks |
| Middle Ages | a period that lasted from 500 to about 1500 AD |
| Feudalism | the system of promises that governed the realtionships between lords and vassals |
| Hundred Years War | a long conflict between England and France |
| Holy Land | region of the world where Jesus of Nazareth had lived, preached, and died |
| Excommunicate | cast out from the church |
| Monks | religous men that lived apart from society |
| Friars | a religious order that spent their time helping the poor and traveled around Europe |
