Church Corruption
The buying and selling of church offices, blessings and sacred objects
simony
The heresy which states it is idolatry to have images of God, the Blessed Mother and the saints.
Iconoclasm
The Turkic god of the sky
Tengri
The animal which was greatly revered by the Turks, and seen as a connection between the spiritual and physical world
wolves
The Duke of Normandy & 2nd cousin to Edward the Confessor. He defeated Harold Godwinson in Hastings and took the crown in England.
William the Conqueror
The practice of European kings and emperors of appointing bishops and abbots
Lay investiture
The king who believed he had power over the pope. After being excommunicated, he claimed the pope was actually excommunicated
Henry IV
The Turks became quite wealthy because they controlled this trade route
Silk Road
Part of Turkic religion: belief that all living things have a spirit or deity
Animism
The Norwegian viking king who attempted to conquer England and was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Harald Hardrada
This pope reformed much of the Church - made laws about who could appoint bishops and made the buying of Church offices illegal. He also required the practice of clerical celibacy.
Pope Gregory VII
After a difficult, snowy journey through the mountains with his wife and child, the king knelt in the snow in this place, begging the pope to forgive him.
Canossa
Turkic people had this lifestyle, which means they moved from place to place to find new land for their animals to graze
Pastoral
part of turkic religion: belief in medicine men who contact the spiritual world and cure diseases by killing and eating the evil spirit causing the illness
Shamanism
This king of England is a saint. He brought peace and prosperity to the kingdom during his reign.
Edward the Confessor
The year the Great Schism occurred
1050
Three factors that led to the Great Schism
Arianism in East; Independent bishops; Caesaro-papism; East unhappy w/ traditions of West; Iconoclasm; Western emperor made protector of Rome; Photius “excommunicating” Latin world
Turk soldiers enslaved by Arab Muslims
Mamluks
The battle in which the Turks conquered Anatolia
The tragedy in which many young nobles (including the heir to the throne in England) were killed in a shipwreck
The White Ship Disaster
The robber baron who kidnapped the pope during Christmas Mass
Mencius
The Seljuk Turk leader who conquered Anatolia
Alp Arslan
The year in which the Turks conquered Anatolia
1071
The period in which Mathilda, granddaughter of William the Conqueror, attempted to take back the throne of England.
The Anarchy