(⌐■_■) (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞A priest or priestess, is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.
Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence".
A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence."
Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.
However, Byzantium had lost considerable territory to the invading Seljuk Turks. ... In November 1095, at the Council of Clermont in southern France, the Pope called on Western Christians to take up arms to aid the Byzantines and recapture the Holy Land from Muslim control. This marked the beginning of the Crusades.
Black slaves gained their freedom.
Secede: the way in which Singapore became an independent nation
Insurgency: an uprising or rebellion
Regime: a term for a government that ruled a country
Junta: a military group that rules a country by force
Decolonization: the process through which a colony becomes independent
