| A | B |
|---|
| capitalism | economic system based on private ownership of the means of production |
| habeas corpus | legal writ protecting a person against illegal imprisonment |
| black death | the bubonic plague of 1348 |
| peasants' rebellion | 1381 uprising in England that forced King Richard to end serfdom and manorial duties |
| journeyman | rank in a guild of one who has learned the craft or trade |
| hanseatic league | dominant trade organization in northern Europe around 1300 |
| alchemy | early form of chemistry in which scientists tried to change inferior metals into gold |
| troubadour | poet-musician who wandered from castle to castle singing songs of love and adventure |
| scholasticism | philosophy that held that faith could be achieved through logical reasoning |
| beowulf | early epic of the hero Beowulf |
| morality plays | dramas showing the advantage of good winning over evil |
| Peter Abelard | a scholastic teacher whose book about interpreting the Bible upset church leaders |
| Thomas Aquinas | a scholastic teacher and philosopher who gave logical proof of God's existence |
