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Middle Ages
Module 11-Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Monasteries lead? | spiritual revival |
| What did Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII enforced on the Church? | laws against simony and the marriage of priests. |
| In the early 1200s, wandering friars traveled from place to place preaching and spreading what? | Church's ideas |
| What is simony | the selling or buying of a position in a Christian church |
| Who was Richard the Lion-Heart? | King of England from 1189 to 1199; he fought in the Holy Land against Saladin during the Third Crusade. He eventually ceased fighting and returned to England. |
| What was the three-field system? | a system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted. |
| What is a Guild? | a medieval association of people working in the same occupation, which controlled its member’ wages and prices |
| What was a Burgher? | a medieval merchant-class town dweller |
| What was the Vernacular? | the everyday language of people in a region or country |
| What was the Commercial Revolution? | the expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies |
| What was the Magna Carta? | “Great Charter”- a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by King John in AD 1215. |
| Who was William the Conqueror? | king of England from 1060 to 1087; he has the powerful French noble who conquered England and brought feudalism to England. |
| Who was Henry II? | king of England reigned 1154-1189; married to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and father of Richard the Lionheart and John. |
| What was a Parliament? | a body of representatives that makes law for a nation. |
| Who was Philip II? | first of the great Capetian kings, he reigned French lands from the English and strengthened the central government of France. |
| What was the Great Schism? | a division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes were established in Avignon and in Rome |
| What was Black Death? | a deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid- 14th century, killing millions of people |
| Who was Joan of Arc? | french soldier and national heroine; she rallied the French troops during the Hundred Years War and was burned at the stake for heresy |
| What was the Hundred Years’ War? | a conflict in which England and France battled on Fresh soil on and off from 1337 to 1453 |
| What was the Great Famine? | 1315-1317, a prolonged period of major crop failure that led to mass starvation in the Northern Europe |
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