The political system in the Middle/Dark Ages where nobles get use of the king's land in exchange for loyalty and service.
Feudalism
The region of present-day Israel; includes the city of Jerusalem, which is a holy city to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Holy Land
What is this?
Flying Buttresses
800 AD crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire
Charlemagne
A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia
The Crusades
Time period in Europe After the Fall of Rome when there was no central government, little education and no big achievements.
Dark/Middle Ages
Allowed for higher walls to be built
Flying Buttress
was the leader and interpreter of the word of God
The Pope
Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages
Chivalry
Cause of the Crusades
Pope Urban II calls on European Christians to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims
An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civic affairs and public education.
Secularism
A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Three-field system
Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land.
Manoralism
Sharing=manners (Manoralism)
People who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times
Serfs (sounds like servant)
Reasons to join the Crusades
1. Save holy land (Jerusalem) from Muslim control
2. Forgiveness of sins
3. Fight for Christianity
4. Gain land and wealth
5. Seek adventure
6. Release from feudal obligations
A system for specialized workers in the medieval times. It would set regulations for price and other factors to eliminate competition in the town, kept the number of people in a specific job limited, had to go through apprenticeship -> journey man ->master
Guild System
land that was not being used so that it could replenish its nutrients
Fallow Land
Which Church was established in western Europe during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages with its head being the bishop of Rome or pope?
Roman Catholic Church
disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.
Bubonic Plague
Results of the Crusades
Christians failed to recapture the holy land, feudalism declined, power of kings increased, cultural diffusion, trade grew, conflict between Christian, Jews, Muslims, grew
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Humanism
What is this?
Three-field system
the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church
Ex-communication
a person who provides financial support for the arts
a Patron
The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history
The Renaissance