The Middle Ages (Part 1)
The fall of the Roman Empire began this era that lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries.
What is the Middle Ages (or the Medieval Period)?
Who were Popes Leo IX and Gregory VII.
The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 by posting 95 statements on a church door after taking a public stand against the sale of indulgences toward this person.
Who was Johann Tetzel?
Ending a marriage if proof is shown that it was never legal.
What is annul (or an annulment)?
This residential house or place designated for monks promoted education during this time period by becoming centers for higher learning (i.e., schools and libraries).
What are monasteries?
Workers who perform the same craft are apart of this organization of fellow artisans and merchants.
What are guilds?
"an ideal place"
What is utopia?
This official measure made it a crime to give Martin Luther food or shelter.
What was the Edict of Worms?
"baptize again"
Who are the Anabaptist (What is Anabaptism)?
As thanks for crushing a mob that had attacked him, Pope Leo III crowned this Frankish king Emperor of the Romans on December 25, 800 AD/CE.
Commonly known as the Black Death, this lethal infection that spread mostly to humans by infected fleas that travel on rodents killed millions of Europeans in 1347.
What was the Bubonic Plague?
This art-loving family of wealthy bankers, merchants, and patrons helped fund the Renaissance.
Who were the Medici family?
This church broke away from the Catholic Church and quickly put into practice the ideas and teachings of Martin Luther.
What is the Lutheran Church?
This Catholic council agreed that the life of every Christian should be guided by church traditions and the Bible.
What was the Council of Trent?
Also known as the Bishop of Rome, this political and religious figure is the leader of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
What was 39 years?
Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What are the famous plays of William Shakespeare?
This official measure allowed rulers to decide the religion--Catholic or Protestant--of his or her state.
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
The doctrine that God has eternally chosen those whom he intends to save
What is predestination?
What is the church (preferably the Roman Catholic Church)?
Pope Urban II urged the leaders of Western Europe to begin a series of religious wars beginning in 1095 AD/CE that were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
What were the Crusades?
This movement focused on human potential and achievement during the Renaissance era.
What was humanism?
The establishment of schools in Europe, the conversion of non-Christians to Catholicism, and the prevention of Protestantism spreading throughout Europe were the principal goals of this Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola and others.
What are the Jesuits (or the Society of Jesus)?