The Pope, Catholicism and the Orthodox Church
After the fall of the Roman Empire, many people turned to this religious, authoritative figure as their main source of leadership.
Who is the Pope?
Many pilgrims journeyed to far off locations to show devotion to God, ____, and/or seek healing.
What is "show penance for sins"?
The meaning of the word "iconoclast" - a term that was used to categorize a wide reaching religious controversy in the Middle Ages.
what is "Image Breaking"?
In this century the "Great Schism" took place, causing even greater division in the church than the iconoclast controversy.
What is the 14th century?
This form of judgement was particularly infamous in the Middle Ages as a means of finding witches.
What is Ordeal by Water?
This religious historical figure was born in 632 C.E. and is known as the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
These men were charged with watching over large areas of the catholic church during the Middle Ages.
Bonus 100pts: The term for these large areas
Who are Bishops?
Bonus: What are Dioceses?
Pilgrims would suffer this consequence if they failed to complete their journey after beginning a sacred pilgrimage.
What is excommunication?
The first Byzantine Emperor responsible for publicly opposing the practice of worshipful treatment of christian icons and later outlawing banning icon worship.
Who is Emperor Leo III?
During the Middle Ages much of the church was generally omitted from taxes, but this French king went toe to toe with the Pope for the right to tax the church clergy in his kingdom.
Who is King Philip the Fair?
Throughout the Middle Ages this people group suffered much religious persecution, including being required to dress a certain way so their ethnicity was apparent.
Who are the Jewish people?
While much of the Christian European world was struggling to flourish, the Islamic world preserved and forwarded these three types of study during the dark ages.
What are Medicine, Science, Education & Trade.
This man was crowned the first "Holy Roman Emperor".
Who is Charlemagne?
These two cities were pilgrim "hot spots" in the medieval ages - famous for their religious significance.
What are Rome and Jerusalem?
Often categorizing religious divisions specifically, this term describes divisions in a group due to a difference in doctrinal beliefs.
What is a schism?
This term was coined to describe the unusual period when the papacy resided in France for 70 years instead of Rome - closely mirroring another 70 year long biblical event.
What is "The Babylonian captivity of the papacy."?
This teenage Religious figure led French armies and was burned at the stake for supposed heresy.
Who is Joan of Ark?
The Islamic world preserved much information from these cultures that would otherwise have been completely lost during the dark ages
What is Greek and Roman.
Later converted into a mosque in 1453, this magnificent church that was located in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
These religious artifacts (such as a piece of the cross of christ) were often enshrined at certain churches, attracting many pilgrims.
What are relics?
In this year, Byzantine empress Irene removed iconoclast laws instated in 726.
What is the year 787?
This city in France was the papal residency during the the Great Schism.
What is Avignon?
While the majority of the public was too afraid of persecution to learn more than was offered by the church regarding religious matters, these men were thought to be specially qualified to talk with God - personally and for others.
Who are the Clergy?
This famous city is known as the holy city of Islam and is the most popular sight for islamic pilgrimages - even to this day.
What is Mecca?
Eventually adopted as the primary Christian denomination in Russia, this religious group split away from the Catholic Church - forming under their patriarch instead of the Pope.
What is the Orthodox Church?
This famous author composed The Canterbury Tales - a story which follows a group of pilgrims telling each other tales as they travel on a pilgrimage.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Because the iconoclast controversy took place in the Byzantine Empire, this church was the primary religious group affected.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The final reigning champion pope at the end of the great schism in 1417?
Who is Pope Martin V?
Burned at the stake for his beliefs and inciting two decades of war after his death for this controversy, this early reformer preached that people should be allowed to read the Bible for themselves.
Who is Jan Hus?
Within 100 years of Muhammad's death, the Islamic empire had conquered much of the Eastern world the kingdom stretched Spain to Western Africa all the way to _____.
What is India?