The Renaissance
The Renaissance started here.
What is Italy?
The Medieval Period started after the fall of this ancient empire.
What is the Roman Empire? (or at least the Western half)?
This is how people first got the Black Plague.
What are fleas from plague infected rats?
This was a reason people wanted the Catholic Church to be fixed.
What is corruption, priests neglecting their duties, the Pope getting involved in politics?
The river the civilization of Egypt was located.
What is Egypt?
They were the patrons of Renaissance art.
Who are wealthy merchants?
They were trained medieval warriors.
What are knights?
This is how the Black Plague spread from city to city.
What are ships along trade routes?
Catholics bought one of these to get into Heaven.
What is an indulgence?
This geographic feature led to Greece's city-states.
What are mountains or islands?
This made Renaissance art different from Medieval art.
What is realistic?
This system was self-sufficient and provided things needed for survival.
What is the Manor System?
These are three "cures" for the Black Plague.
What are potions. animal cures, preventing the "smell" of the plague, bloodletting, drinking or bathing in urine, trying to get God's forgiveness, quarantine?
These are three effects of the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Catholic Church losing power, he creation of different versions of Christianity, monarchs becoming Protestant, religious wars.
This was a reason for the "fall" of the Western Roman Empire.
What are barbarian invasions, split of the empire, lack of loyalty to Rome, welfare programs, end of Roman expansion?
This invention helped more Europeans learn to read.
What is the printing press?
This is the political system where land was exchanged for military service.
What is Feudalism?
This is who Europeans blamed for the Black Plague.
Who are marginalized people or God?
This was a list of issues of the Catholic Church needed to fix.
What are the 95 Theses?
These were a series of religious wars where Europeans attempted to capture the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This way of Renaissance thinking focused to individual achievements and a questioning spirit.
What is Humanism?
This was the one unifying organization in Medieval Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
This was an effect of the Black Plague on Europe.
What is, 25-30 million people dead, the weakening of the Catholic Church, peasants earning more money, peasant revolts
He is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This was an effect of the Crusades.
What is an increase in trade, the weakening of the Catholic Church or the establishment of Crusader States?