Middle Ages
What system exchanged land for loyalty and military services?
Feudalism
What city was especially important during the Crusades?
Jeruselum
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
Who nailed the Ninety-Five Theses to protest Church corruption?
Which thinker belived people had natural rights?
John Locke
Who was the most powerful insitution in Midevil Europe?
The Roman Catholic Church.
What were the Crusades?
Religious wars between Chrisans and Muslims over the Holy Land.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da VInci
What were indulgences?
Payments meant to reduce punishment for sins.
What are natural rights?
Life, Liberty and property.
What document signed in 1215 limited the kingś power?
The Magna Carta.
Who called for the first crusade in 1095?
Pope Urban II
What was humanism?
A focus on human potential and achievment.
What new branch of Christianity formed during the reformation?
Protestantism
Who believed government power should be divided into branches?
Montesquieu
What was a serf?
A peasent tied to the land.
What is cultural diffusion?
The spreading of ideas, goods, and technology between cultures.
What wealthy family supported artisits in Florence?
The Medici family.
WHich English king created the Church of England?
Henry VIII
What event started the French revolution?
The Storming of the Bastille
What punishment removed someone from the Church?
Excommunication
What was a pilgrimage?
A religious journey to a holy place.
Who wrote the Prince?
Niccolo Machiavelli
What was the Counter-Reformation?
The Catholic Churchś response to the Reformation
Who became emperor after the French Revolution?
Napoleon Bonaparte