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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 person who has withdrawn from society and is living alone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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