Rise of Medieval Towns
Politics Category
100 Years War
Byzantine Category
Arabia and Muhammed
100
The two causes that made town grow and become wealthy enough to become independent of nobles.
What is the rise of trade and guilds
100
Name of English king who set up courts in order to replace injustices committed by traditions of 'trial' by combat or 'trial' by ordeal.
Who is Henry II
100
The period in which France and England fought a series of wars over the control of lands in France from 1337 and 1453.
What is the 100 years war?
100
Name of the city that Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire before it was renamed in his honor.
What is Byzantine?
100
Desert (loose fitting clothing, nomadism, trade), Oasis (irrigation, dates and palm, trade), Coastal Plain (irrigation, ocean trade) and Mountains (terraced agricultural fields)
What are the 4 different environments and adaptations to these environments found on the Arabian Peninsula?
200
Document which freed towns from the control of lords and which was usually paid for by members of guilds and by traders living in town.
What is a charter?
200
Name of king involved in the magna carta.
Who is King John?
200
Military technology that allowed the English to initially win the first wars against the French.
What is the long bow?
200
Name of the church that was part of the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire and unified with the government of that part of the world.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church?
200
Became an orphan, lived with nomadic Bedouins, became a trader respected for honesty, married a woman with a successful trading business named Khadija.
What was the early life of Muhammed?
300
Disease which originated in Asia but severely affected Europe by killing at least a third of the population.
What is the bubonic plague?
300
Prevented Kings from raising taxes without consent or jailing people without trial?
What is the Magna Carta?
300
Reason the hundred years war weakened the nobility in favor of monarchs and commoners.
What was the tactic of moarchs paying the commoners to fight for them and thus didn't need nobles to field knights
300
Disagreement between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches over whether people should worship images of God and Jesus.
What is iconoclasm?
300
After having visions in a cave and visited by the archangel Gabriel several times, had his night journey and was made to memorize this book?
What is the Q'uran?
400
freeing serfs to move around and demand more money and rights.
What is the effect of loss of population on the need for labor?
400
Latin name for the principle of not imprisoning people without trial.
What is habeas corpus?
400
Name of the french peasant girl who led the french army to victory and helped forge a french national identity.
Who is Joan of Arc?
400
Eastern Orthodox church effort to reassert control of Roman Catholic churches, which led to the Pope excommunicating the Orthodox patriarch and the patriarch excommunicating the pope's messenger, a cardinal. Afterwards the two churches were separated.
What is the schism?
400
Preaching belief in one God, tolerance of 'other peoples of the book' (Jews and Christians), and among other things that the rich should share their wealth with the poor, Muhammed was forced out of his native Mekkah and traveled to this city where his religion grew enormously and he found lots of support.
What is Medinah?
500
Although many died, the name of the class of people who gained and the class of people who lost power due to the bubonic plague.
What is the gain in power of the serfs in relation to the power of nobles.
500
Created the model Parliament, which included representation of the commoners as well as lower ranking church officials.
Who is Edward I?
500
Legal reforms that gave more power to kings, but at the same time made them rule with the consent of people, establishment of courts and habeas corpus, rise of new wealth in towns and cities, bubonic plague which gave new power to serfs enabling to move and receive more money, developments in warfare that weakened the need for knights, forging of national identities over regional identities.
What are the factors that lead to the decline of feudalism?
500
Before the schism, the patriarch requested that the pope raise armies to defend the holy lands and lands near Constantinople thus starting this series of wars with the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
500
When Muhammed died a succession of four of his relatives led the Muslim faith. Then there was an argument among Muslims on whether a descendant of Muhammed should lead the faith or not. This conflict continues today.
What is the conflict between Sunni and Shi'a muslims about?
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