Topic: Church in Medival Europe
1. How were the “Tournaments” similar to the sporting events of today?
2. What conflicts developed that weakened the church's power?
3. How are the problems of the Medieval Roman Catholic Church similar and different to problems in modern society? Give examples.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

In 1819, what did the united states obtain from spain for $5 million?

What is the meaning of the phrase “bear ’t”? what word is left out between the words but and few?