What does excommunicate mean?
To remove someone from the church.
What were the series of Holy Wars?
Crusades.
Who are the church officials?
The clergy.
What is the Magna Carta?
A list of rights that the kings had to follow.
What is heresy?
Religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings.
Who is the head of the Christian Church?
The pope.
What was the place where Jesus lived, preached, and died?
The Holy Land or Palestine.
What is a religious order?
a group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow a common set of rules.
What is Parliament?
The law making body that governs England.
Who was involved in the Reconquista?
Spain and the Moors.
Who is the head of the empire or region?
The king.
Who was the leader of the Holy Wars?
Pope Urban II.
What are monks?
A group of men who lived at a monastery, following strict rules and schedules to dedicate their lives to their religion.
What was the long conflict between England and France?
The Hundred Years War.
What was the purpose of the Spanish Inquisition?
To find and punish non-Christians in Spain.
Why did popes and kings clash?
They each believed they deserved the power to choose their bishops.
Who was the leader of the Muslim forces?
Saladin.
What are friars?
people who belonged to a religious order, but lived and worked among the general public.
What was the Black Death?
A deadly plague that swept through Europe killing approximately 25 million people.
Who ruled all of Spain?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
How did people become king in the Holy Roman Empire?
They were elected.
Why did the crusades fail?
Possible answers:
Had to travel large distances.
They were unprepared.
Christians were outnumbered.
Leaders planned poorly.
What is natural law?
A law created by God that governed how the world operated.
What changes in Europe were caused by the plague?
Possible answers:
Many people fled to new cities.
Manor system ended.
The surviving peasants and serfs received higher wages because their skills were high demand.
Why did the Jews face discrimination?
Christians believed they were responsible for Jesus's death.