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- 2. plaugea serious, often fatal, infection transmitted by fleas from infected rats and characterized by high fever, weakness, and the formation of buboes.
- 5. inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland
- 6. ordersa group of individuals who live under religious rules
- 8. inquisitionthe Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.
- 9. a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession
- 12. to be cut off from communicating with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church
- 13. People with priestly authority in a religion.
- 14. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- 16. group of representatives with powers in government
- 17. a region in what is now Israel and Palestine, revered by Christians as the place in which Jesus Christ lived
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- 1. a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century
- 3. Roman Catholic court to investigate those who have strayed from the church.
- 4. military expeditions undertaken by Christians of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- 7. a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century
- 10. the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
- 11. Christian kingdoms trying to retake land from the Moors
- 15. a council of that advised the sultan during the Ottoman Empire