Spread of Christianity
A place where monks or nuns live.
What is a monastery?
Islamic armies came from this Middle Eastern Peninsula.
What is Arabia?
Another name for a division.
What is a schism?
This disease caused a massive decrease in Europe's population and helped spur the Renaissance.
What was the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?
Another name for a false pope.
What is an antipope?
Clovis, King of the Franks, was from this modern day country.
What is France?
The crusade that led to the Christian conquering of the Holy Lands.
What is the First Crusade?
The term for eastern Christians who were no longer in union with the pope.
What are Orthodox Christians?
The emphasized importance of the human person.
What is humanism?
A religious journey.
What is a pilgrimage?
The title given to Charlamagne when he was crowned by the pope.
What is "Holy Roman Emperor"?
This city was sacked during the Fourth Crusade.
What is Constantinople?
The selling of religious offices by secular figures.
What is lay investiture?
The translation of the French word "renaissance."
What is rebirth, renewal, or revival?
Another name for prominently Catholic Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is Christendom?
The vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
What are the evangelical counsels?
The pope who launched the crusades.
Who is Pope Urban II?
These religious men sold all they had and served the poor.
What are friars?
The culture of these two ancient civilizations were rediscovered during the Renaissance.
What are Greece and Rome?
The changing of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is transubstantiation?
St. Benedict set aside time for this as part of his "rule."
What is daily community prayer?
The Muslim general who retook the Holy Lands from the Chrisitans.
Who is Saladin?
This city was conquered by Muslim Turks in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
The Italian city that was the "capital" of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
Another term for "Church."
What is ecclesial?