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• City
  ...OD Middle English] citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval [[Latin]] civitat-, civitas, from Latin, [[citizenship]], [[state]], city ...th a royal charter. Historically, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe], a city was [[understood]] to be an urban settlement with a [https://en.wi
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• Compass
  ...s was [[invented]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages medieval] Europe around 1300. This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-fi
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• Duel
  ...e=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Medieval Latin ''duellum'', from Old Latin, [[war]] ....org/wiki/Early_Modern_Europe Early Modern Europe], with precedents in the medieval code of [[chivalry]], and continued into the [[modern]] period (19th to ear
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• Paraphrase
  ...most widely [[circulated]] versions of the [[Bible]] available in medieval Europe. Here, the [[purpose]] was not to render an exact rendition of the [[meanin
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• Wheel
  ...ivance or apparatus having as its principal part a wheel: as a : a chiefly medieval instrument of [[torture]] designed for mutilating a [[victim]] (as by stret ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maykop_culture Maykop] culture) and Central Europe, and so the question of which [[culture]] originally [[invented]] the wheel
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• Latin
  ...pally through the influence of the Church, it became the language of later medieval European scholars and philosophers. Because Latin is a highly inflectional
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• Coronation
  ...or [[worship]]; in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Europe Medieval Europe], monarchs claimed to have a [[divine]] right to rule. Coronations were onc
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• University
  ...e Italian Renaissance] of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The medieval [[curriculum]] itself derived from the seven Roman liberal arts of [[logic] By the early modern period hundreds of universities had been founded in Europe by both secular and religious authorities, spreading from the Atlantic to R
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• Celt
  ...n Age Europe. Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age in Central Europe's Hallstatt period, named for the site in present-day Austria). By the late ...al Celtic languages ceased to be widely used by the sixth century. "Celtic Europe" today refers to the lands surrounding the Irish Sea, as well as [[Cornwall
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• Siege
  ...arly Modern period], siege warfare [[dominated]] the conduct of [[war]] in Europe. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci Leonardo da Vinci] gained [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval Medieval] [[campaigns]] were generally designed around a [[succession]] of sieges. I
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• Triad
  ...y Morgan le Fay] as a [[manifestation]] of a British triple goddess in the medieval romance [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight Sir ....org/wiki/Weaving_(mythology) spinners]" of destiny, are attested all over Europe and in Bronze Age Anatolia.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity]
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...'' is the philosophy of Europe and the Middle East in the era now known as medieval or the [[Middle Ages]], the period roughly extending from the fall of the [ The [[history]] of medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into three main periods:
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• Guild
  ...association]] of people with similar interests or pursuits; especially : a medieval association of merchants or craftsmen ...u] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Adam Smith], and all over Europe a [[tendency]] to oppose [[government]] [[control]] over trades in favour o
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• Knight
  ...onarch or country, especially in a [[military]] capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood has been conferred upon mounted [[warriors]]. During the [https ...nd their incongruity with the [[reality]] of Cervantes' world. In the late medieval period, new [[methods]] of warfare began to render classical knights in [[a
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• Romanticism
  ...tistic, [[literary]], and [[intellectual]] [[movement]] that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the ...alism] and elements of art and [[narrative]] perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to [[escape]] the confines of [[population]] growth, [https:/
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• Betrothal
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Europe medieval Europe], in canon law, a betrothal could be formed by the exchange of [[vows]] in
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• Automatons
  ...al-Jazari]] provided a diagram of a peacock automotan in his treatises. In Europe, [[Roger Bacon]] built a talking android head (an ANDROID is a figure in hu ===Medieval===
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• Dialectic
  ...d Socratic method], Hindu, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upaya Buddhist], Medieval, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic Hegelian diale
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• Primates
  ..._MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''primat'', from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin ''primat''-, ''primas'' archbishop, from [[Latin]], [[leader]], from ...ough fossil evidence shows many other [[species]] were formerly present in Europe. New primate species are still being [[discovered]], more than 25 species w
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• Spittle
  ...ern [[Greek]] σπιτάλι; also medieval Latin spitalerius (1342 in Du Cange), medieval Greek σπιταλιώτης (c1350) ...ve]] [[agent]]. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Europe southern Europe], [[praise]] is sometimes accompanied by spitting to avert the [https://en.
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