Early Middle Ages
The event that most historians agree led to the beginning of the Medieval Times, Middle Ages.
What is the Fall of the Roman Empire?
Two branches of Christianity (pre-Reformation) were the Eastern Orthodox and...
What is the (Roman) Catholic Church?
Black Death was thought to be this disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This modern country was the birthplace of the Renaissance.
Where is Italy? What is Italy?
What is Protestant?
A sort of political, economic, and social hierarchy used by Japan and Europe.
What is the Feudal System? What is Feudalism?
Pope Urban initiated this.
What is the First Crusade?
The Black Death empowered this group in Feudal Society the most.
Who are peasants?
Renaissance means this in English word in French.
What is Rebirth?
German Monk who famously issued the 95 Theses or Arguments against practices of the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
The 1st Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Franks, contributed to the Spread of Christianity.
Who is Charlemagne?
Centers of learning and medicine for medieval Europeans, but also religious communities.
What is a monastery? and/or Convent?
Two medieval ways of war became obsolete in the Hundred Years' War.
What are knights and castles?
Humanists focused on these works.
What are Greek and Roman texts? What are classical works?
What is humanism?
The term that describes someone who swears loyalty to a lord to gain a fief (land).
What is a vassal?
A holy ritual of Christianity. Traditionally there are 7.
What is a sacrament?
New technologies that advanced warfare during the Hundred Years' War.
What are cannons and longbows?
A series of breakthroughs in multiple fields, including Chemistry, Physics, and Human Anatomy.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This new technology allowed Luther's ideas to spread quickly across Europe.
What is the Printing Press?
The highest ranked secular leader in Europe's feudal system.
What is a King?
This city was the goal for crusaders.
What is Jerusalem?
The French heroine who led the French to victory at Orleans, but was later captured and burned at the stake.
Who was Joan of Arc?
The term for something that is non-religious and the focus of many Renaissance thinkers.
What is secular? or worldly?
A remission of sins, like a ticket to heaven if you paid for it, sold by the Catholic Church.
What is an indulgence?
The primary economic activity on medieval manors.
What is farming or agriculture?
The attack of this major Eastern Christian capital city, is what inspired the Pope to start the First Crusade.
What is Constantinople?
This powerful institution was weakened considerably by the Black Death
What is the Church?
Extremely rich banking family from Renaissance Florence, known for patronizing the arts.
What is the Medici Family?
The word for a local language or everyday language of a country. Ex. in France, it would be French.
What is the Vernacular?