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HISTORICAL WORD :
MEANING- antiquity : old times especially before the Middle Ages
- apprentice : person who learns a skill from an expert
- artifact : object made by human beings
- barbarian : person who is uncultured or uncivilized
- chivalry : medieval knightly system showing courtesy and bravery
- conqueror : person especially king who takes possession of territory by force
- consul : official chosen by vote to govern Rome; State agent in foreign country
- crusade : medieval military expedition to recover Palestine; campaign against recognized evil
- descendant : person born in the same family with common ancestor
- edict : order or official statement issued by authority
- entrepreneur : person who takes financial risks hoping for large profits and control of commercial enterprise
- exile : long absence from one's country as punishment
- gipsy, gypsy : member of a wandering race especially Asian
- hermit : person who has withdrawn from society and is living alone
- humanism : literary culture and intellectual movement during the Renaissance with devotion to human interests
- inhabitant : person who dwells in a place
- knight : person raised to honorable military rank
- mandate : order to act from the League of Nations
- Middle Ages : period about A.D. 1000 - 1400; period of history in Europe after fall of the Roman Empire
- missionary : person who preaches a religion or goes on religious missions
- mystic : person who believes in spiritual power or hidden meaning
- nationalism : patriotic feelings for one's country
- navigator : person who directs the course of a ship or voyage often using charts
- Nazi : member of German National Socialist party
- pacificist : person opposed to force, war and serving in the military
- Pan-Africanism : movement for political union of all Africans
- partisan : person committed to a party, side or cause
- patrician : person of noble birth especially wealthy landowner in ancient Rome
- patriot : lover of one's country
- philosopher : person in the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge
- plebeian : person of low birth especially common person in ancient Rome
- pogrom : organized massacre especially of Jewish community in Russia
- portrait : painting, photograph or drawing of a person, especially face portrait
- preacher : person who delivers sermons and talks in public about a religion or belief
- proletariat : lowest working classes or common people
- propaganda : means of spreading a doctrine or idea
- pyramid : monumental stone tomb with sloping sides meeting at apex in which Egyptian Pharaoh's body is placed after death
- reign : period of rule
- savior : person who saves from ruin; redeemer; deliverer
- siege : operations by army to gain possession of fortified place
- stigmata : marks corresponding to Christ's wounds made by nails
- usury : lending of money at exorbitant or illegal rates of interest especially in the Middle Ages
- vassal : person who holds land of a superior lord by feudal tenure
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