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WH 121 Final
Final for World History 121
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an English charter originally issued in 1215 by King John; first document forced onto a King by a group of his subjects in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges | Magna Carta |
| anti-semitism (against the Jews); church was hard-hit; helped the sick ones from the plague | Consequences of Plague |
| formally divided Christianity into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches which became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church | The Great Schism |
| A Frank under Merovingians in 507 created a true Frankish kingdom; established first ruling dynasty; early heredity dynasty in Western Europe | Clovis |
| a Norse explorer who is regarded as the first European to land in North America nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus | Lief Erikson |
| this battle is often seen as the defining event for holding the incursions of the Hungarians into Western Europe | Battle of Lechfeld |
| levied taxes on the French clergy of 1/2 of their annual income causing an uproar within the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy; he emerged victorious against Pope Boniface 8 | Philip 4 of France |
| Pope Gregory 1 was envolved in the development; monasticism saint patrick and the Island of Ireland; Christianity and Intellectualism and Crusades | Medieval Church |
| was a Carolingian; a patriarch; called "charles the hammer"; battle of Tours= drove back the invasion | Charles Martel |
| the period in Jewish history during which the Jews of the ancient kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon; lasted 75 years | the Babylonian Captivity |
| the European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity led by Martin Luther and John Calvin | Protestant Reformation |
| under the Carolingian government; was a team of inspectors that were the most loyal subjects | Missi Dominci |
| consisted of 90% writing; Alcuin of York- leader of scholars to look over school; replacement of manuscripts; had new methods of book production | Carolingian Renaissance |
| was the first King of France of the epohymous Capetian dynasty; started the dynasty | Hugh Capet |
| a legislative assmebly of the different classes or estates of French subjects; not significant role in France; Philip 4 "the Fair" created it | Estates General |
| aka "William the Conquerer" duke of Normandy; conquest of England; victory over King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings; suppressed revolts; | William of Normandy |
| first of the Plantagenet to rule England; first to use the title "King of England"; most powerful and controversy of all English kings | Henry 2 |
| the Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England; point at which William gained control of England in 1086 | Battle of Hastings |
| a masterpiece of the Renaissance sculpture by the renowned artist Michelangelo; commissioned for the French cardinal Jean de Billneres; depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the crucifixion | the "pieta" |
| turn away from religion; dominate mindset; the celebration of human spirit | Humanism |
| a religios way of life characterized by the practice of renouncing worldly pursuits to fully devote one's self to spiritual work | Monasticism |
| labor units; controlled services of workers, prices and quality | Guilds |
| was Archbishop of Canterbury; venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church; conflict with Henry 2 of England assassinated by followers of the King in canterbury cathedral | Thomas Beckett |
| had 6 wifes; divorced; in the English Reformation that made England a Protestant nation; discovered the Anglican Church | Henry 8th |
| Pepin forced the Lombard king to return property seized from the church; the so called fonation whereby the Papal States was founded and the temporal reign of the Papacy began | Donation of Pepin |
| was written by Martin Luther and is widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation; disputation projects against clerical abuses, especially in regard to indulgences | 95 Thesis |
| had an aristocracy; team of inspectors; their renaissance had 90% of writing; consisted of education, replacement of manuscripts; new methods of book production and a division of the empire; Charlemagne was the most important | Carolingians |