World History.
Across
- 1. an epidemic disease
- 2. church leaders
- 5. to make sure
- 7. the customs, beliefs, and way of life of a group of people
- 8. a woman who separates herself from ordinary human society in order to dedicate herself to God; nuns live in convents headed by abbesses
- 10. renewed attention to, or interest in, something
- 12. established; customary
- 13. a covered market in Islamic cities
- 14. an explanatory treatise
- 15. power belongs to the people. The people elect representatives to govern them.
- 18. a group of Christian communities, or parishes, under the authority of a bishop
- 24. a series of events that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point
- 25. huge; vast; immense
- 26. regular church members
- 27. men who devote their lives to serving God.
- 28. to bar from inclusion or participation in
Down
- 1. to follow up or proceed with
- 3. “money for a man”; the value of a person in money, depending on social status; in Germanic society, a fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed
- 4. a high government official in ancient Egypt or in Muslim countries
- 6. the holy scriptures of the religion of Islam
- 7. to break down completely; to suddenly lose force or effectiveness
- 9. “struggle in the way of God”
- 11. in the Roman Empire, an official in charge of a province
- 16. the head of a convent
- 17. means of determining guilt in Germanic law, based on the idea of divine intervention: if the accused person was unharmed after a physical trial, he or she was presumed innocent
- 19. name for the ruler in certain Muslim countries.
- 20. the office of the caliph
- 21. having many intricate parts
- 22. a government in which the authority, or power, belongs to the people.
- 23. a person who believes in Islam