HWH Unit 4 Vocabulary

Worship of one god

• Judaism

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Animism

Class of Chinese officials who passes civil service exams to work in the bureaucracy

• Scholar-gentry

• Merchants

• Vassals

• Artisans

A division over a difference of opinion, generally used in the case of split over religious differences

• Fiefdom

• Crusades

• Schism

• Feudal System

A form of political organization that is characterized by a relationship between a lord and a vassal where the lord exchanges land for military service from the vassal

• Schism

• Fief

• Feudalism

• Manorialism

Holy wars fought to recapture the Holy Land from its Muslim rulers; participants were promised salvation.

• Caliphate

• Feudalism

• Crusades

• Manorialism

Nobles; given land by their rulers in exchange for military service; had their own small armies of knights

• Priests

• Serfs

• Vassals

• Lords

Signed by King John of England in 1215; guaranteed all freemen the right to a trial by jury and forced the king to obtain consent of the nobles for most new taxes.

• 95 Thesis

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

A religious leader in the Eastern Orthodox Church

• Caliphate

• Patriarch

• Pope

• Lord

Religious leader of the Roman Catholic Church

• Lord

• Patriarch

• Caliphate

• Pope

Collection of all existing Roman laws, organized into a single code.

• Magna Carta

• Code of Justinian

• Treaty of Verdun

• Code of Hammurabi