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Unit 5 World Studies
Black Death and Hundred Years War
Question | Answer |
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What is the bubonic plague? | created by a flea's bit. symptoms include very high fever, headache, aching joints, and toxic shock, due to bacterial toxins within the system. |
What is the black death? | Same as Black Plague or Bubonic Plague |
What is the domestic? | Of, relating to, or made in your own country |
What is a epidemic? | Something affecting many people at the same time; refers especially to disease. |
What is a Famine? | A situation is which many people do not eat |
What is a Feudalism? | The economic and political and social organzation in Europe. Power and wealthy people on the top and farther down is less wealthy, ending with the peasents |
What is a Flagellant? | A group of christians who took it apon themselves to beg for God's favor. They believed the plauge was God's punishment for people's sins. They walked throught europe whipping themselves, and ended up spreading the disease further. |
What was the Hundred Years’ War? | A protracted series of wars between France & England that occurred between 1337 and 1453. The Hundred Years’ War began over English claims to the French throne. A famous figure from the war was the French patriot, Jeanne d’ Arc (Joan of Arc). |
What is a Lord? | A person of high rank, who controlled a medieval manor. The lord gave protection and land rights to particular individuals, called vassals, in exchange for their loyalty and service |
What was the Lymphatic System? | A system of glands and vessels that distribute a substance called lymph. Lymph contains blood plasma and disease-fighting cells called phagocytes. The buboes, from which the Bubonic plague takes it is name, are swollen lymph glands |
What was a Manor? | A district controlled by a feudal lord, usually consisting of a few farms, a village, a church and a manor house |
What was the Medevil era? | The period of Western European history between the fall of Rome, around 476 A.D., and the beginning of the Renaissance, around 1450 A.D. Also known as the Middle Ages. |
What was a Pandemic? | An epidemic of disease which extends over a large geographic area. The plague epidemics which occurred throughout much of Europe are good examples of pandemics. |
What is a Peasant? | An agricultural worker; a poor country dweller. |
What is a Penance? | Any voluntary suffering or punishment to show repentance, or sorrow, for having committed a sin |
What was the Rural? | Pertaining to the country and the people who live there as distinguished from the city. |
What is a Scapegoat? | A person or group that is unjustifiably blamed for something. A scapegoat is the object of a psychological or social need to focus blame. |
What is a serf? | A person in feudal servitude, legally bound to his master’s land, and often transferred with that land when ownership passed to another lord. |
What is a Stalemate? | A contest, dispute, competition, war, etc., in which neither side can gain an advantage or win. |
What is a Urban? | Pertaining to the city, as distinguished from the country. |
What is a Vassal? | A person owing a debt of loyalty and service to a feudal lord and protector. |