Religion
The religion that united most of Europe during the early Middle Ages.
Catholicism
Wars in which Christians fought Muslims for control of Middle Eastern lands.
Crusades
The period from 500 to 1000 in which trade was slow and classical learning mostly stopped.
The Dark Ages
In the medieval manor system, this group of people were responsible for making food, clothing, furniture, and tools. They were not allowed to leave, but were not slaves.
Peasants
Fought for the French against the English in the 100 Years War.
Joan of Arc
Some Africans who had traditional beliefs were _____, or worshipped multiple gods or spirits of nature.
Polytheistic
Medieval Europeans thought this was God’s punishment for their sins.
The Black Death
These exterior stone supports allowed thinner, higher walls and huge stained-glass windows, bringing light and incredible height to cathedrals.
Flying buttresses
System in Medieval Europea in which powerful local lords divided their lands among lesser lords in exchange for pledges of service and loyalty to the greater lord.
Feudalism
Burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English.
John Wycliffe
The withholding of sacraments and Christian burial by the Pope.
Excommunication
Nomadic people in Central Asia who conquered China.
Mongols
The four common elements of Medieval African society.
Family, government, religion, and art.
What event caused demand for goods from the Middle East to increase in Medieval Europe?
The Crusades
By 1000, merchants, traders, and artisans had become a powerful social class between nobles and peasants, called:
Middle class
This barred entire towns, regions, or kingdoms from receiving sacraments and Christian burial.
Interdict
Underwater earthquakes in the Ring of Fire can cause these tidal waves in Japan.
Tsunamis
Types of art and literature that flourished under Ming rule in China.
Blue and white porcelain vases/classical poetry/novels.
This crop rotation system in Europe during the Middle Ages worked by planting two fields with two different crops and leaving the third field unplanted. During the next planting season, the crops would rotate.
Three-Field System
The Pope
By A.D. 1000, the religions of both _____ and _____ had spread to many regions of Africa.
Christianity and Islam
This Chinese warfare technology that allows missiles to be fired at enemies would spread to Western Europe.
Gunpowder
Ways Chinese culture influenced Japan.
Buddhism/law code/Confucian ideas/revised Chinese writing system to create kana.
Manor lords wanted money after the Crusades introduced new Middle Eastern goods. They will ask for money instead of accepting food grown or labor as payment from their _____. This will cause this group to sell their goods in towns.
Serfs/peasants
Founded the Empire of Mali in Africa.
Sundiata