Church
Being kicked out of the Church is called
Excommunication
People moving from rural areas to cities
Urbanization
The practice of the first-born child inherits everything is called
Primogeniture
Loaning money and charging interest, originally forbidden by the church at Rome but later allowed, was known as
Usury
Traveling poets, minstrels, entertainers
Troubadours
Name ONE new religious order from the Middle Ages
Dominicans
Franciscans
Benedictines
The new class that arose from new urban centers in Europe
Middle Class
What was the last major area os Europe to convert to Chrtistianity?
The Baltics
Code of conduct for nobles, sponsored by church to minimize fighting among Christians
Chivalry
What does secular mean?
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
Conflict between kings and popes over who could appoint bishops
Investiture Conflict
The association of trading cities in the Baltic/North Sea area was called
Hanseatic League
What family ruled much of Central and Western Europe from the late Middle Ages until WW1?
Hapsburgs
The system of walls for Constantinople were known as the
Theodosian Walls
What was the legislative body that made laws for England, beginning in the late Middle Ages?
Parliament
Type of architecture popular for cathedrals in the Late Middle Ages
Gothic
Name TWO responses to the Plague
Quarantines
Organized burials
Flagellant Movement
Disruption of land trade
Name ONE reason that rulers sponsored tournaments for jousting and other military displays in the mid-late Middle Ages
It promoted stability in governments by keeping warring knights busy
Rulers showed the glory and stability of their kingdom
What was the Reconquista?
When Spanish Christians re-conquered Spain from the Muslims who had taken it in the early Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, what was a document issued by a bank that allowed the bearer to withdraw a specific amount of money from the bank or its branches?
letter of credit
Selling of church offices
Simony
Name THREE effects/results of the Plague on Europe
Population decrease
Disruption of Trade
Prices increase - inflation
Labor Shortages undermine serfdom
Serfs left manors for better wages/conditions
Nobles fiercely resisted peasant demands
Peasant revolts
Eventually, the feudal system would die of starvation rather than violence
Jews were blamed - pogroms
Church suffered loss of prestige when its prayers failed to stop onslaught of plague
Hedonism
Increased faith - being faced with death
Name TWO facts about medieval guilds
Guilds controlled much of the urban economy
Guilds practiced price & quality control
Guilds provided social support networks
Membership in a guild meant ability to work legally in a city
Name the THREE Estates, or classes, of the Mid-Middle Ages
Those who pray (clergy)
Those who fight (nobility)
Those who work (everyone else)
In what year was the Magna Carta signed?
1215