Vocab
What is fief?
Land granted to someone in return for service
What were the two major hardships in Europe during this time?
The Great Famine and The Black Death
Who was Justinian
Byzantine Empire leader
What was the Great Schism and when did it occur?
split of Christianity from East and West, 1054
What are common laws?
unified set of legal rules across the entire country instead of relying on local and feudal customs
What is a manor?
Large estate owned by a noble
The Great Famine killed what percent of the population
10-25 percent
Dante wrote what?
The Divine Comedy
Who called to liberate the Holy Land in 1095?
The Hundred Years War was fought between who?
England and France
what are circuit courts
practice of judges traveling from town to town to hear cases
What caused the Great Famine?
Heavy rain and cool weather caused crops to rot
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote what?
Canterbury Tales
Which of the crusades were successful?
The 1st
Define Gothic archictecture
Higher ceiling
larger windows
thinner walls
flying buttresses
Truce of God
Catholic church movement that tried to limit the days when knights and feudal nobles could fight.
How did the Black Death spread?
Rats
Joan of Arc
Rallied the French. Seen as a martyr
The crusades increased what things?
Trade, knowledge, contact between East and West.
Define Romanesque archectiecture
Thick stone walls
small windows
rounded vaults
Chivalry
code knights were expected to follow/show- honor, generosity, courage, and devotion.
The Black Death reached Europe when? how did it get to Europe and why did it spread so bad?
1347 Trade ships from Asia. The cities were unsanitary and crowded.
Who claimed the French throne that was one major reasons that led to the Hundred Years war?
English king Edward III
Muhammad began teaching what? these people are called what? and the Christian attempt to regain the territory of the Iberian Peninsula that they took control of was called what?
Islam, Muslims, Reconquista
Who signed it, when, and what is the Magna Carta?
King John in 1215,, established that even the king was required to obey the laws. Led to Rule of law, limited government, individual rights.