High Middle Ages
Christianity
Higher Learning
Later Middle Ages
(More) Late Middle Ages
100
This was an arrangement in which poor people in society worked for lords in a land-grant exchange
What is the manorial system
100
This was the pope in the late 11th century that decided he was called by God to end the practice of Lay Investiture
Who is Pope Gregory VII
100
This ancient philosopher often inspired the works of 12th and 13th-century European thinkers
Who is Aristotle
100
The violent strain of the plague that wiped out over 40 million Europeans between 1347-1351
What is the Black Death
100
The split in the church following disputes over the residence of the pope
What is the Great Schism
200
The heavy, metal plow invented in the 1100s that helped to more easily till soil
What is the carruca
200
This was the court in which accused Church heretics would be tried, and if they did not confess, tortured or executed
What is the Inquisition
200
The most brilliant Christian theologian of his era; the first to argue for the combination of faith and reason (freason) in forming logical spiritual thought
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas
200
The peasants' revolt of 1381 mainly occurred over the peasants' desire for a higher amount of this since they were now more valuable
What are pay/wages
200
For 72 years between 1305 and 1377, the papacy resided in this town (must state town and country)
What is Avignon, France
300
This Italian city paved the way for the rebirth of trade in Europe in the 12th century
What is Venice
300
This 12th-century agreement prevented an all-out war between the Church and European monarchies over the issue of lay investiture.
What is the Concordat of Worms
300
The academic term for "freason" (the blending of the study of faith and reason)
What is scholasticism
300
The initial struggle in the early 1300s over the taxation of clergy was led by this pope
Who is Boniface VIII
300
This pope restored the papacy to Rome in 1377 thinking it would quell the complaints of many devout Catholics who thought it blasphemous to have the papacy elsewhere
Who is Gregory XI
400
French counts created these in order to encourage trade in their territories during the era of trade revival
What are trade fairs
400
The exact name of the founder of the Dominican order
Who is St. Dominic de Guzman
400
Thomas Aquinas' major work stating why we must use both faith and reason in coming to logical conclusions about religion
What is the Summa Theologica
400
This French king could not tax his own people anymore lest they revolt, so he turned to the clergy for more tax monies
Who is Philip IV
400
Name the four major categories of effects of the Black Death/plague (100 points each)
What are social, political, economic, and physical
500
This is a system in which people invest in trade and goods for the sake of making a profit
What is commercial capitalism
500
Gregory, in trying to end the investiture practices, first ran into problems with this European monarch
Who is Henry IV
500
The first European universities were founded in the early 1200s in this Italian city
What is Bologna
500
This Italian pope was chosen in 1377 when the papacy was moved back to Italy under threats by the Italian people of an Italian pope or death to the conclave
Who is Pope Urban VI
500
This was the young king of England who ordered the brutal executions of some rebel peasants in the late 1380s who would not take orders to back down
Who is King Richard
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