Important Words About The Crusades Crossword Puzzle

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• crusades : a series of medieval military expeditions made by europeans to recover the holy land from the muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries:
• holy land : a region on the eastern shore of the mediterranean, in what is now israel and palestine, revered by christians as the place in which christ lived and taught, by jews as the land given to the people of israel, and by muslims.
• religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a god or gods
• pilgrimage : a pilgrim's journey
• christian : a person who has received christian baptism or is a believer in christianity
• muslim: follower of the religion of islam
• judaism : the monotheistic religion of the jewish people.
• catholic : a member of the roman catholic church.
• temple : a building for religious worship, especially in religions other than christianity.
• pope : the bishop of rome as head of the roman catholic church.
• turks: a native or inhabitant of turkey, or a person of turkish descent.
• byzantine: a citizen of byzantium or the byzantine empire.
• sin: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law
• empire: an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state
• constantinople: the former name for istanbul from ad 330 (when it was given its name by constantine the great) to the capture of the city by the turks in 1453.
• kingdom: a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen
• heaven: a place regarded in various religions as the abode of god (or the gods) and the angels, and of the good after death, often traditionally depicted as being above the sky
• relics: an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical interest
• king: the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth:
• calvary: the hill outside jerusalem on which christ was crucified