World Civ Important terms #1

An ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia

• Silk Road

• Black Death

• Feudalism

• Printing Press

a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s

• Silk Road

• Black Death

• Printing Press

• Feudalism

a system of political organization in which a vassal served a lord and received protection and land in return

• Black Death

• Feudalism

• Manor

• Silk Road

1. a machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.

• Serf

• Silk Road

• Manor

• Printing Press

a large estate granted to a lord by the king

• Manor

• Printing Press

• Feudalism

• Serf

a system of money in general use in a particular country.

• Renaissance Man

• Medieval

• Currency

• Geocentric

a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields.

• Renaissance Man

• Currency

• Medieval

• Geocentric

Of Middle Ages; Very old-fashioned or primitive

• Currency

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Medieval

having or representing the earth as the center of the universe

• Galileo

• Heliocentric

• Medieval

• Geocentric

having or representing the sun as the center

• feudalism

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• medieval