This is the Latin word for "brother" and describes religious priests who went out to the world to preach and lived by begging.
What are friars?
100
Women entered convents to become these: religious sisters.
What are nuns?
100
Europe is a continent and this, a land mass with oceans on three sides. It also has smaller lands with water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
They were founded by Saint Francis of Assisi and taught while serving the poor.
Who are Franciscans?
100
They were founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman, defended the Church's teachings, and studied extremely hard to defend the faith against well-educated people.
Who are Dominicans?
200
This is the term for medieval religious travelers who journeyed to holy places.
Who are pilgrims?
200
This is the Latin meaning "Our Lady" and is the name for several churches and a very important Cathedral in Paris.
What is Notre Dame?
200
This was a Catholic court that tried people suspected of following beliefs that went against the Church.
What is the Inquisition?
200
This is what people called teachers at the first medieval universities.
What are Masters?
300
This swept through Europe from 1347-1351 and killed 1 out of every 2 people in medieval Europe during that time.
What is the Black Death?
300
This was the language of educated people in medieval Europe; language used by monks
What is Latin?
300
This was written by Saint Thomas Aquinas and stated that all people have certain rights that exist naturally and government could not take them away.
What is Natural Law?
300
The Black Death was a form of this - a disease caused by a type of bacteria carried by fleas.
What is bubonic plague?
300
This took place from 1346-1453 between the French and the English, was a French attempt to drive the English out of Normandy, and introduced amazing new weapons to the world of warfare.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
400
A type of architecture in cathedrals with rounded barrel vault ceilings, eliminating the flat roof
What is Romanesque?
400
These are religious beliefs that go against the Church's teachings.
What is heresy?
400
She identified a hidden French prince, fought alongside the French in the 1430s, was declared a heretic and burnt at the stake, and 500 years later declared innocent and a Saint.
Who is Saint Joan of Arc?
400
These two powerful Spanish Christians married in 1469, combined their lands to form Spain, and began to pressure all in their lands to be Catholic.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
400
A powerful ruling Spanish couple set up this court: a court in Spain to try, torture, and kill those who were Jewish and those who would not become Catholic during the late-1400s.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
500
This means "reconquest" and describes Spain's wars to defeat the Muslims and kick the Muslims out of Spain from the 1200s-early-1400s.
What is reconquista?
500
The place considered the "royal city" by Pope Urban II who urged the Crusaders to capture this city
What is Jerusalem?
500
Towns in this area (today part of Belgium), such as Bruges and Ghent, became centers for making and trading cloth
What is Flanders?
500
The country in which Venice is located
What is Italy?
500
The lands of the fiefs of the Middle Ages were called this.