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100
What is the the Holy Land?
Jerusalem
100
What is a monk?
A religious man who spent their time in prayer, work, and meditation; lived apart from society in isolated communities
100
Who was the French teenage peasant who rallied the French troops, helping them drive out the British?
Joan of Arc
100
What is one similarity between a pope and king?
Both have power during this time
In Western Europe, both had political power
Both thought they were chosen by God to rule
100
What group or organization was just as powerful as Kings and helped bring peace, education, and order to the people of Europe?
Popes
200
What are manors?
The large estate owned by a knight or lord (includes large house/castle, pastures, fields, forests)
200
What is a fief?
Parcel of land (Nobles sometimes paid knights with fiefs instead of money)
200
Who painted beautiful murals on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican?
Michelangelo
200
What was life like in the country? (provide at least 2 details)
The majority of the population lived in the country
Worked as farmers
Peasants worked all year long for the Lord, who lived in the manor and provided land for the workers
Had gardens and cattle
200
What did the Renaissance time focus on? Give 2-3 examples.
Humanities, art, literature, public speaking, grammar, poetry, history, ethics.
300
What is another name for Middle Ages?
Medieval
300
What were the Crusades?
A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia (fought over holy land)
300
Who spent 20 years living, working, and traveling in Asia? Once he returned to Italy, he documented his travels in writings, which created curiosity in the Europeans.
Marco Polo
300
What was life like in the city? (provide at least details)
Dirty
Crowded
Craftsmen, servants, merchants, bakers, doctors, lawyers
Young boys worked as apprentices for 7 years
300
What was the Magna Carta?
One of the first documents that protected the rights of people and limited the King’s power.
400
What does excommunicate mean?
The pope had the power to cast someone out of the church
(if that person died while excommunicated, it was believed they did not go to heaven)
400
What was the Hundred Years War?
Nearly 100 years of fighting between England and France due to two people fighting over who should be in charge.
400
Who was a sculptor, painter, architect, inventor, engineer, city planner, map maker, body dissector, and painter of the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Da Vinci
400
Was Northern Europe or Southern Europe rough, mountainous, and the place where they grew grapes and olives?
Southern Europe (think Italy!)
400
Provide four facts about the Black Death.
A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351.
Originated in Central and Eastern Asia. Traders brought infected rats carrying the disease. Fleas feasted on the rats blood and transferred the infected blood to humans.
Was caused by many different forms of plague, one including the Bubonic Plague
Some of the diseases spread through the air and killed people in less than a day
Historians believe that up to 25 million people were killed in Europe during this time, which was nearly ⅓ the population
As a result the manor system fell apart and serfs/peasants became valuable and rich
Another result is the church lost its power
1000 villages in England alone were abandoned
500
What is a monastery?
A community of monks that is separated from the rest of society
life in a monastery is strictly organized
500
What does Humanism mean?
The study of the humanities which led to a new way of thinking and learning (history, literature, art)
500
He was a leader/warrior from Germany, who took over France and created a strong European empire by helping the people see what they had in common/unity.
Charlemagne
500
Was Northern or Southern Europe cold and filled with open plains and lots of fields?
Northern Europe
500
Draw a diagram of the Feudal System pyramid. Fill in each of the four layers/levels and explain who gave/gained what from who (if you memorized the diagram, literally copy that down!)
