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| Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety, fulfill vows, or gain absolution for sins, ex. Jerusalem |
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| Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought and end to West Europe's centuries of intellectual & cultural isolation. |
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| Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhereing to a rule stipulating chastity, obedience, and poverty. |
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| the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is head |
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| an agricultural laborer legally bond to the land's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord |
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| the 1100 mile waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers |
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| a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, & charcoal in various proportions used to propel bullets, cannonballs, and shots and to make explosives |
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| new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosphy of China from the Song period to the 20th century |
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| type in which each individual character is cast on a seperate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing, allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page rather than have to carve an entire page |
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| Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. From India, later sent to China as a tribute gift by Champa. |
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