| A | B |
|---|
| Lay Investiture | When Church leadership is decided by lay leders |
| Simony | The practice of selling Church offices |
| Nepotism | the practice of passing positions of leadership to your own children or family |
| Excomminication | to be cut off from the communion of the Church |
| Crusade | A war waged by Christians to take lands back from Muslims control |
| Inquisition | The Church trials of people suspected of being heretics |
| Indulgence | a price paid for the removal of a penance |
| Cluny | A town in France where monastic reforms took place |
| Feudalism | An economic, political and social system where peasants are given protection from a King or Lord in exchange for labor |
| Asceticism | A simple lifestyle freely chosen, Avoidance of excess and self-discipline, for religious reasons |
| Pilgrimage | A holy walk or travel to sacred sites and shrines |
| Viking | band of fierce warriors from Norway |
| Islam | Means Submission |
| Allah | means God in Arabic |
