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Given the MEANING, identify the HISTORICAL WORD
1. old times especially before the Middle Ages
Answer: antiquity 2. person who learns a skill from an expert
Answer: apprentice 3. object made by human beings
Answer: artifact
4. person who is uncultured or uncivilized
Answer: barbarian 5. medieval knightly system showing courtesy and bravery
Answer: chivalry 6. person especially king who takes possession of territory by force
Answer: conqueror 7. official chosen by vote to govern Rome; State agent in foreign country
Answer: consul 8. medieval military expedition to recover Palestine; campaign against recognized evil
Answer: crusade 9. person born in the same family with common ancestor
Answer: descendant 10. order or official statement issued by authority
Answer: edict 11. person who takes financial risks hoping for large profits and control of commercial enterprise
Answer: entrepreneur 12. long absence from one's country as punishment
Answer: exile 13. member of a wandering race especially Asian
Answer: gipsy, gypsy 14. person who has withdrawn from society and is living alone
Answer: hermit 15. literary culture and intellectual movement during the Renaissance with devotion to human interests
Answer: humanism 16. person who dwells in a place
Answer: inhabitant 17. person raised to honorable military rank
Answer: knight 18. order to act from the League of Nations
Answer: mandate 19. period about A.D. 1000 - 1400; period of history in Europe after fall of the Roman Empire
Answer: Middle Ages 20. person who preaches a religion or goes on religious missions
Answer: missionary 21. person who believes in spiritual power or hidden meaning
Answer: mystic 22. patriotic feelings for one's country
Answer: nationalism 23. person who directs the course of a ship or voyage often using charts
Answer: navigator 24. member of German National Socialist party
Answer: Nazi 25. person opposed to force, war and serving in the military
Answer: pacificist 26. movement for political union of all Africans
Answer: Pan-Africanism 27. person committed to a party, side or cause
Answer: partisan 28. person of noble birth especially wealthy landowner in ancient Rome
Answer: patrician 29. lover of one's country
Answer: patriot 30. person in the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge
Answer: philosopher 31. person of low birth especially common person in ancient Rome
Answer: plebeian 32. organized massacre especially of Jewish community in Russia
Answer: pogrom 33. painting, photograph or drawing of a person, especially face portrait
Answer: portrait 34. person who delivers sermons and talks in public about a religion or belief
Answer: preacher 35. lowest working classes or common people
Answer: proletariat 36. means of spreading a doctrine or idea
Answer: propaganda 37. monumental stone tomb with sloping sides meeting at apex in which Egyptian Pharaoh's body is placed after death
Answer: pyramid 38. period of rule
Answer: reign 39. person who saves from ruin; redeemer; deliverer
Answer: savior 40. operations by army to gain possession of fortified place
Answer: siege 41. marks corresponding to Christ's wounds made by nails
Answer: stigmata 42. lending of money at exorbitant or illegal rates of interest especially in the Middle Ages
Answer: usury 43. person who holds land of a superior lord by feudal tenure
Answer: vassal
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