| Question |
Answer |
| Black Death |
A disease broughtover by seaborne rats that took 40% of europes population.(early fifteenth century |
| Jews |
scapegoats for the plague and were persecuted |
| The hundred years war |
1337-1453-started when english king Edward III claimed the french throne. The war went back and forth claiming each others throne and there lands. |
| Estate General |
a representative council of towns people, clergy, and nobles. They levied taxes and some exploited the king's plight to broaded their own regional sovereignty, thereby deepening territorial divisions. |
| Jacquerie |
several regions in series of bloody rebellions- named after jacques bonhomme. |
| plentitude of power |
a doctrine of papal that elaborated on by Innocent. |
| benefices |
church offices granted by the ruler of the state or the pope to an individual. It also meant fief in the Middle ages. |
| clericis laicos |
forbade lay taxation of the clergy without papal approval and revoked all previous papal dispensation- issued by Boniface. |
| Unam Sanctam |
declared that temporal authority was subject to the spiritual power of the church. |
| indulgences |
pardon or unrepented sins- purchased for the payment of sins. |
| defender of peace |
depicted the pope as a subordinate member of society over which the emperor ruled supreme and in which temporal peace was the highest. |