The Feudal Pyramid and Catholic Church
List the feudal pyramid in order from highest to lowest.
What is peasants and serfs, knights, nobles/lords, and king?
The major reason people moved to towns.
What are economic opportunities/jobs?
The plague was spread by infected fleas on rats traveling on this.
What are trade routes?
What is high taxes/violations of their rights?
The Hundred Years' War was fought using these two new technologies.
What are cannons and longbows?
What is nobles?
Define burgher.
A wealthy merchant living in a town
The estimated percentage of people in Europe who died.
What is 30-50%?
The king who signed the Magna Carta.
Who is King John of England?
Name the social classes that gained power from the Hundred Years' War.
What are peasants and kings?
Define interdict.
What is the power of the pope to excommunicate an entire region?
The Crusades were fought over control of this location.
What is Jerusalem or the Holy Land?
The reason why peasants gained power after the Black Death.
What is the ability to demand better pay for their work?
What is the idea that no one, including the king or other leaders, is above the law?
Name the social classes that lost power from the Hundred Years' War.
What are nobles and knights?
List the church hierarchy from highest to lowest.
What is the Pope, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and parish priests?
These levels on the feudal pyramid gained power from the growth of towns
What are peasants and kings?
The impact the Black Death had on art.
What is a preoccupation with death/depiction of skeletons (death) amongst the people?
The location in England that the Magna Carta was signed.
What is Runnymede?
Where the Hundred Years' War began.
What is Crecy?
Name all classes that could be vassals in feudalism.
What are knights, nobles, and kings?
Name at least five things brought back to Europe by the Crusaders.
What is perfume, silk, bathing regularly, fruit juice, spices, mirrors, carpets, sugar, melons, rhubarb, coffee, cotton, apricots, dates, rice, paper, wheelbarrows, mattresses, shawls, chess sets, lemons, and oranges?
The Roman Catholic Church lost power as people turned to this practice instead.
What is mysticism?
Name two rights that the Magna Carta provided.
What is the right to private property and a trial?
The length of time that the Hundred Years' War lasted.
What is 116 years?