Middle Ages Terms
an armored warrior who fought on horseback, served beneath the vassals, pledged to defend their lords' lands in exchange for fiefs
What is a knight?
What is rebirth?
What is the Renaissance?
most influential religion in Europe during the Renaissance
What is Catholic?
A disease that engulfed Europe during the Middle Ages. It killed about one-third of the population and was carried by fleas. Because of this, the feudal system died out.
What is the black plague?
a medieval peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate
What is a serf?
I painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
_____________ paintings showed human emotion and highlighted individual people.
What is the Renaissance?
a reform movement against the Catholic Church
What is the reformation?
Challenged the Catholic Church by nailing 95 theses on the wall and creating the Lutheran religion.
Who is Martin Luther?
An estate or farm granted to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system in medieval Europe
The person that painted the Sistine Chapel?
Who is Michelangelo?
In the ______________ paintings were used to show religious scenes and not scenes of real life.
What is the The Middle Ages?
The Middle Ages was the only era that focused on religious paintings. True/False.
False
a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return
a lord's estate during middle ages
What is a manor?
Johannes Gutenberg invented the ___________ which made the Bible and other books more accessible to every day people.
What is the printing press?
When a person of importance is painted as higher than someone else. This was usually religious figures.
What is hierarchy?
People that had power equal to the Kings.
Who is the pope?
The black plague created religious hatred against _________.
Who are Jewish people?
a code of behavior for knights in medieval Europe, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion
What is chivalry?
Renaissance philosophers studied the _______ and the ________ to think about what type of government people should have.
Someone who paid artists to make paintings and sculptures.
Who is a patron?
The King that challenged the Catholic Church by creating the Anglican religion because the pope would not give him a divorce.
Who is King Henry VIII?