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Question | Answer |
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after the fall of Rome, what institution stepped in and became the most powerful force in europe ? | The Catholic church |
Why did the Catholic Church hold so much power? | they exchanged marriages/funerals for land |
What was the significance of the trade city of constantinople? | taxed goods |
Who was Justinian? What did he accomplish? | Charlemagne of Byzantine Empire. Recovered areas overran by invaders.expanded biggest size |
What was the Great Schism and its significance? (Eastern and Western) | disagreement overseeing all Christians as a whole |
What are the differences between the Eastern and Western Christians Churches? | eastern emperor controlled, western pope controlled |
What happened to him with the Pope and what did this show regarding the power of the Catholic Church? | The pope named him emperor. |
What issues arose between Kings and Popes? | competed over power |
According to what we learned in class, how did the early Islamic Empires expand? | they spread through trade |
What is a caliph? | the religious and civil leader of Islam. |
What two religions fought throughout the Crusades and what did they fight over? | Muslims and Christians |
What were the effects of the Crusades? | distrust in the church/pope massive number of death inventions brought back to Europe |
What was life like for people in the Middle Ages? | Roman Empire collapsed, growth of towns |
What was the Feudal System and how did it function? Know the levels and jobs of each level What is a Fief? | food, safety,leadership, and loyalty land help on condition of feudal service |
What is the Code of Chivalry? Who has to follow it? | set of rules followed by knights |
What was life like in Middle Age Era Towns? (Positive and Negatives?) | negative |
What was life like on a Middle Age Manor? (Positive and negative?) | positive |
What were major changes that occurred during the Middle Ages? Three-Field System The Guild System (Levels, purpose, what it was like to be in one) | started off as 2 then split into 3. farmers planted crops on half field each year apprentice-start point 2-7 yrs to become journeyman journeyman-earned salary, worked 6 days a week master-owned own shop served in gov, worked to protect trade |
What was the Magna Carta? | first document put into writing principle king and gov not above law |
Why was it written? | sought to prevent kind from exploiting his power |
What did it do? (Who did it seek to limit the power of?) | King John |
What was the Trans-Saharan Trade Route? | network of trade routs crossed the Sahara Desert in Africa |
What was traded on it? | gold and salt |
What religion was brought to Africa on the trade route? | Islam |
Black Plague What caused it? | bacteria transferred |
where did it come from? | rats and fleas |
how did it kill? what was it like? | entered human body blood pus seeped out strange swellings |
What were things people did not understand about it? | why it was happening |
How did the Black Plague effect Europe? (Long Term changes?) | caused the population to disappear |