Middle Ages 1
The large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia.
What is Eurasia?
The creation of many small kingdoms in the early 500s.
What marked the beginning of the Middle Ages?
Medieval
What’s another name for the Middle Ages?
Lutherans are those protestants that followed Luther’s teachings.
What are Lutherans?
What is the Reformation?
A reform movement of Western Christianity.
Medieval
How did the Middle Ages get its name?
They are religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities. They spent their time in prayer, work, and meditation.
What are monks?
People who try and convert others to a particular religion.
What are missionaries?
It was an order created to teach girls rather than boys Catholic ideas.
What was the Ursuline Order?
Kings rather than church leaders or people of the church, would “invest” or appoint, bishops and other high-ranking church officials.
What was lay investiture?
Nearly everyone in the Middle Ages belonged to the Christian Church in Western Europe.
Why did the Pope have so much power?
Christianity spread through the efforts of missionaries, monks, and the pope.
How did Christianity spread throughout northern Europe?
These are communities of monks.
What are monasteries?
It is the effort to reform the Catholic Church from within.
What is the Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation?
What is purgatory?
It was a place where souls went before they went to heaven.
They saw the Pope as God’s representative on Earth.
How did the people of western Europe see the Pope?
When Pope Leo IX excommunicated the bishop of Constantinople, the church split into the Orthodox church and the Roman Catholics.
What split the Christian church into the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholics?
Because the empire was approved by the Pope and people saw it as a rebirth of the Roman Empire, it became known as the Holy Roman Empire.
How did the Holy Roman Empire obtain its name?
It was a council meeting of Catholic church leaders.
What was the Council of Trent?
It was Luther’s idea that people didn’t need priests to talk to God for them and that people could have a direct relationship with God.
What was the priesthood of all believers?
The Pope wrote letters to explain religious teachings and outline church policy.
What role did the Pope play in creating rules for the church?
He traveled alone and converted many Irish people to Christianity.
What did Patrick accomplish in Ireland?
These are monks that followed the set of rules created in the 500s by Benedict.
What are Benedictine monks?
It was a Roman Catholic Church organization charged with punishing people whose religious beliefs did not adhere to those of the church.
What was the Spanish Inquisition?
He believed as long as people believed in God and lived by the Bible their souls would be saved.
What did Martin Luther believe that people needed to do to be saved?