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Rural Life
The Church
Revival of Trade
Black Death
Language, Literature and Education
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True or False: Between 1000 and 1300 the population of Europe declined dramatically?
What is FALSE
100
The center of all religious and most social activities
What is the Village Church
100
What began to reemerge a trade centers?
What are Cities
100
True or False: The Black Death was the second most devastating natural disaster in European History?
What is False...it was the most
100
Where was the first Medieval university?
What is Bologna, Italy
200
A self-sufficient agricultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasant and serfs?
What is a Manor
200
True or False: Religion was just a small fraction of people's lives?
What is False...it was a very important part of their lives
200
Name two big European trading cities?
What is Venice and Flanders
200
Where did the plague originate and how did it spread?
What is Asia and spread via trade routes to Europe carried by fleas that lives on black rats
200
The universal language of medieval civilization?
What is Latin
300
What were at least three improvements in agricultural technology?
What is Windmills, Water Wheels, Iron Tools, Iron Plow, Horse Collar, System of Crop Rotation
300
What power did the priests have over people?
What is forgive people for their sins
300
What allowed for the development of trade?
What is increase in agricultural output...supply and demand
300
In urban areas the death rate was what percentage?
What is 50-60%
300
How did the teaching method of lecturing come about?
What is Books were rare and expensive to teachers would read from books and students would subsequently takes notes.
400
What is a serf?
What is a peasant who has lost their holdings and therefore was bound to the land; a serf could not marry without the lord's permission
400
What was the Inquisition?
What is a Roman Catholic tribunal for discovery and punishment of heresy
400
What led to the development of a money economy based on the exchange of coins for goods? (not more bartering)
What is demand for gold and silver
400
Why did the plague spread so quickly?
What is poor sanitation and crowded urban areas
400
What is the vernacular? Which languages did it include?
What is "the language of the common people." This included Spanish, French, English, and German.
500
Discuss how seasons played a role in peasant life?
What is 1. Fall-beginning of cycle of labor; prepared to plant winter crops 2. Winter-people stayed at home repairing told, mending clothes, spring and grinding grain into flour 3. Spring-plant crops, such as oats, barley, peas and beans 4. Summer- Weed the fields and sheer the sheep
500
What famous book was published at the end of the 14th century that tells the story of a group of pilgrims who traveled to the shrine of the one of the most important saints?
What is Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
500
The term Bourgeoisie derives from the German word "burg" meaning....
What is A Walled Enclosure
500
What were three impacts of the Black Death?
What is 1. Decline in population 2. Scarcity of labor 3. Towns freed from feudal obligations 4. Decline in the church's influence 5. Disruption of trade 6. Anti-Semitism 7. Better European Economy
500
What were four main areas of study in medieval universities?
What is Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy