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Middle Ages & Byzantine Empire
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scholars from this empire were important because they helped preserve ancient Greek & Roman ideas. | Byzantine Empire |
| What document established the idea that monarchs must obey the law, too? | Magna Carta |
| This term describes the designs used to decorate books during the Middle Ages. | illumination |
| This is another word for 'middle age'. | Medieval |
| Small images of holy people used by the Byzantine church were called... | icons |
| What was the name of the alphabet designed for Slavic languages? | Cyrillic alphabet |
| The legal system based on customs and court rulings is called... | common law |
| The estate granted to a vassal by a lord is called a ... | fief |
| The practice of lending money and charging interest is called... | usury |
| A ________ is a document that sets out the rights of a town. | charter |
| _________ grew up around cathedrals to teach clergy & lawyers, they also helped unify society. | Universities |
| What did the Magna Carta do to the power of English king John? | weakened it |
| What happened to western Europe as the western half of the Roman Empire started to decline? | it fell into disorder and chaos |
| After this event, western Christians accepted the authority of the pope in Rome. | Great Schism |
| This group of people raided, burned, and looted parts of western Europe but also set up trade routes and settled in western Europe. | Vikings |
| What do Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, William the Conqueror, and Henry II have in common? (2 things) | They wanted to increase their power and limit their nobles' power. |
| Pope Urban II called for this group of people to be overthrown in the 'Holy Land'. | Muslim Turks |
| This agreement granted the Church the power to elect and invest bishops but the emperor could give the bishops fiefs. | Concordat of Worms |
| Lending money at interest was the exclusive job/career of what group of people? | Jews |
| What was the hierarchy of social classes in medieval Europe from top to bottom? | monarch, lords/nobles, vassals, peasants |
| Why was Justinian's Code important? | It revised & reorganized centuries of Roman laws into an understandable code. |
| What was another name for Justinian's Code? | Corpus Juris Civilis |
| What group of people were bound to the land where they worked, even though they were not slaves? | serfs |
| What effects did the Black Death have on the population of Europe, production, and cost of labor? | 1/3 of the population died, production declined, cost of labor increased |
| What event probably weakened Spain's economy and made their cultural life less diverse? | the Reconquista |
| Why were Jews attracted to eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages? | They could practice Judaism there without persecution. |
| A child's education in the Middle Ages centered on religious knowledge. What does this say about the values of Medieval society? | Religion was the center of their society. |
| What was an interdict? | When the Church barred religious practices/sacraments for an entire town, district, or diocese. |
| What major event moved Europe away from a bartering economy to a money-based economy? | The Crusades |
| What was the main thing that made Constantinople a good location as a capital city? | It was located at trading crossroads coming from Europe and Asia. |
| According to the code of chivalry, what were knights expected to do ? | protect peasants and noblewomen; be brave, loyal, and true to their word; treat captured knights well |
| The second Great Schism caused people to question the _______. | authority of the Church |
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