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| the spread of a disease over a wide geographic area |
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| having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters |
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| everyday language of ordinary people |
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| men or women who were the poorest members of medieval society |
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| a government run by church leaders |
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| a vast sem arid grass-covered plain, as in found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America |
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| a nomadic people from the steppe, settled across much of Asia |
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| a trade route across the East, South, and Western Asia with Europe as well as parts of North and East Africa |
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| focuses on human potential and achievements |
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| a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land |
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| the spread of European culture |
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| people who buy and sell goods; they can also be skilled craftsmen who make their own goods and sell them |
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| the time period between the 5th and 15th century |
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| the ceremony in which a man becomes a vassal of a lord |
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| a lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord |
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| an organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord |
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