Topic 2 Vocabulary Words

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  1. 2. corpus/a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  2. 3. of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; noun a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.
  3. 5. Death/a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population.
  4. 6. if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
  5. 7. king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
  6. 10. the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
  7. 13. of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
  8. 14. member of an aristocracy, especially a noble,a person who has the tastes, manners, etc., characteristic of members of an aristocracy.
  9. 15. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
  10. 16. a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68.
Down
  1. 1. “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
  2. 4. those not members of the clergy; noun someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
  3. 8. a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight; school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan; street name for lysergic acid diethylamide.
  4. 9. person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
  5. 11. a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
  6. 12. feudal Japanese military aristocracy; a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.