THE BLACK DEATH
In the Middle Ages, people believed these bodily fluids could cause disease.
What are "humors"?
This division in the Catholic Church caused people to doubt their faith and look to government for answers.
What was the Great Schism?
Horses were not considered better than oxen for plowing until the invention of this special rigging.
What is a horse harness?
This Portuguese prince wanted to teach navigators how to explore distant waters and discover new lands.
Who was Prince Henry?
This teenage girl led France to victory in the Hundred Years War, but was later burned at the stake.
Who was Joan of Arc?
In the Middle Ages, people believed this invisible, odorless gas could cause disease.
What is "miasma"?
This English civil war began when the House of York tried to seize the throne from the House of Lancaster.
What was the War of the Roses?
This piece of farming equipment made deep furrows that would aerate the soil and make planting seeds easier.
What is a heavy plow?
This Italian sea captain was the first European explorer to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This Italian mathematician introduced Arabic numerals to Europe.
Who was Leonardo "Fibonacci" Bonacci?
This cure from the Middle Ages involved opening a vein or an artery to let out bad bodily fluids.
What is bleeding or bloodletting?
France started the Hundred Years War because these English trading partners did not pay French taxes.
What are Flanders and the Aquitaine?
BONUS QUESTION
WORTH 10 STARS!
This Portuguese sea captain was the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
This English monarch rallied the troops besieged at Agincourt and turned a near defeat into a decisive victory.
Who was Henry V?
In the Middle Ages, the smell of these plants was used as protection from an invisible, odorless gas.
What are flowers?
Millions of Europeans died during this disaster, after heavy rains and cold weather killed crops and livestock.
What was the Great Famine?
When crops are rotated, one field must be left in this condition.
What is "fallow"?
This English sea captain was the first European explorer to reach North America.
Who was John Cabot?
These legal measures were used to prevent peasants from moving and merchants from buying luxury items.
What were the sumptuary laws?
In medieval Europe these people had less privilege than the nobles but more power than the peasants.
Who are workers or merchants?
This religious organization isolated Spain from the cultural development of other nations.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
This term refers to a situation where a limited resources has been exhausted.
What is depletion?
This Portuguese sea captain was the first European explorer to sail around Africa to reach India.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
A long journey across a barren desert was the fastest land route connecting these two bodies of water.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?