Courtly Love and Chivalry A code of behavior for Medieval knights.
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Global History & GeographyVocabulary List #4
Chivalry
• The code of conduct followed by knights during the Middle Ages
Civilization• Community characterized by elements such as a system
of writing, development of social classes and cities
Collective
• Large farm owned and operated by workers as a group
Conservatism
• Set of beliefs held by those who want to preserve traditional ways
Containment
• Cold War policy that involved limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control
Coup d’etat
• A revolt by a small group intended to overthrow a government
Cuneiform
• Writing of ancient Mesopotamia
Desert
• Dry barren land
Diaspora• A scattering of people, as when the Jewish people were
forced to leave their homeland in Palestine
Dictator
• Leader with total power and control
Dynasty
• Ruling family
Enclosure
• Process of taking over and fencing off land once shared by peasant farmers
Excommunicate
• To exclude from the Roman Catholic Church as penalty for refusing to obey church laws
Fascism
• The rule of a people by a dictatorial government that is nationalistic and imperialistic
Feudalism
• Social, political and economic system where land and protection is exchanged for service and loyalty
Gentry
• Wealthy landowning class
Glasnost
• “Openness”, relaxation of censorship in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev
Gothic
• Style of European architecture characterized by pointed arches and flying buttresses
Guild
• A type of trade association of merchants or artisans that was active in the middle ages
Haiku
• Form of Japanese poetry that expresses a feeling, thought, or idea in three lines typically about nature
Vocabulary Quiz #4
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