Black Death
1347 - 1353
What are the dates of the Black Death (height of outbreak)?
The French royal family that ran out of male heirs in the 14th century.
Who are the Capetians?
Pope Gregory X established this to limit the secular influence of papal elections.
What is the Conclave of Cardinals?
The official religion of Russia beginning in the 11th century.
What is Greek Orthodoxy?
The fundamental question between secular rulers and the papacy in the 13th century.
Fleas on rats on trade ships.
How did the Black Death get to Europe?
The primary reason for English military superiority during the first half of the war.
What is the longbow?
Issued after Boniface opposed Philip's efforts to tax the French clergy. It was the strongest statement on papal authority ever issued.
What is Unam Sanctam?
Russia became tied to this empire after the schism and due to shared economic interest in trade.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The primary territory held by the English in France prior to the Hundred Years' War.
What is Gascony?
Groups of men and women who flogged themselves in order to gain God's forgiveness.
Who were the Flaggelants?
At this battle, the English, outnumbered 5:1, defeated the French force and gained Normandy.
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
Following Clement V's election as pope, he moved the papacy to this location.
What is Avignon?
Who is Ghengis Khan?
She helped convince the pope to return the papacy to Rome.
Who is Catherine of Siena?
Jews were blamed for poisoning these throughout Europe and causing the Black Death.
What are water wells?
God's command to free Orleans and have the dauphin crowned.
What is the vision of Joan of Arc?
The election of a second pope who ruled in Avignon while the first ruled in Rome.
What is the Great (or Western) Schism?
What is the Golden Horde?
The only territory held by the English after the HYW.
What is Calais?
1/3 of the European population.
How many Europeans died from the Black Death?
Following the HYW, France transitioned from feudal to this type of state.
What is centralized?
This ended the division of the papacy during the Western Schism.
What is the Council of Constance?
Money paid for peace.
What is a tribute?
The heir to the French throne.
What is the dauphin?