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World history
Medieval Christian Europe part II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were signs of increasing prosperity? | A reliable food supply and the abundance of trade and growth of towns. |
| Where were the first universities built and why? | Around cathedrals in Rome. The universities were built in the High Middle Ages because the people wanted an educated clergy. |
| Who provided students with amenities? | Local nobles |
| What were the "new" ideas in universities? | Advances in science and mathematics |
| What did Christian scholars think of the church? | The church was the final authority on all questions |
| Scholasticism was what? | resolving the conflict between faith and reason |
| What did Thomas Aquinas do? | He merged Christian belief and Greek philosophy. He wrote about government and natural law. |
| What did Christian scholars study Hippocrates for? | On geometry, medicine, and Euclid |
| How did the development of universities affect members in the growing middle class? | It provided an opportunity for advancement |
| Gothic cathedrals caused what? | Their light-filled interior made Christians long for religious knowledge and purity. |
| What effect of the weakening of the Byzantine empire have on knowledge and learning in Western Europe? | Scholars who fled Constantinople took with them knowledge that helped spark the Renaissance |
| Why were Byzantine scholars so important to Western Europe? | They carried the ancient Greek and Roman ideas |
| Which manner of writing enabled a great deal of literature to a wider audience in the late Middle Ages? | Vernacular language |
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