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chapter 13 Latin/Eur
Key terms definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Three-Field System | A rotational system for agriculture in which two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced the two-fields system in medieval Europe. |
| Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons. |
| Hanseactic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century |
| Guild | In medieval Europe an association of men (Rarely Women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interest. |
| Gothic Cathedrals | Large churches originating in twelfth-century France: built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large strained-glass windows. |
| Renaissance (European) | A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of greco-Roman culture. Usually divided into an Italian Renaissance , from roughly the mid-fiftheenth century. |
| Universities | Degree-Granting institutions of higher learning. those that appeared in Latin Europe from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universities. |
| Scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. |
| Humanists (Renaissance) | European Scholars, writers , and teachers associated with the study of the humanities ( grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the fifteenth century and later |
| Printing Press | A mechanical device for transferring text or graphic from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe about 1450. |
| Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1415, when rival claimants to the papacy exist to Rome and Avignon |
| Hundred Years' War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and french noble families. |
| New Monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England , and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits |
| Reconquest of Iberia | Beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christians states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. in 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms. |
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