Crime and Grime
Guilds, Trade and Commerce
Politcs, Plague and War Ended Our Era
Eastern Orthodox Church
Justinian and His City
100
This was how people were punished for lesser crimes.
What is fined or put in the stocks
100
This person works for an expert in a trade or craft in exchange for training?
What is an apprentice?
100
This was an agreement between barons and King John of England that allowed the king to remain in power if he agreed to observe traditional laws and traditional rights of barons and the church.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
This person had supreme authority over the church.
Who is the emporer?
100
These two continents came together at Constantinople, making it a true crossroads.
What are Europe and Asia?
200
These invertebrates were used to "bleed" patients, thus restoring balance to the body and spirit.
What is a leech?
200
This practice/job was reserved for Jews because the church taught it was sinful.
What is banking/moneylending?
200
Changes in this area made medieval nobles' knights and castles less useful.
What is military technology
200
This is a religious image, typically painted on a small wooden panel and considered sacred by Eastern Orthodox Christians.
What is an icon?
200
This was the language and culture of Constantinople?
What is Greek?
300
Along with medical treatment, prayer and magic, medieval doctors used this other, unscientific method to cure patients.
What is astrology?
300
This is a person who has learned a particular trade or craft, but has not become an employer, or master?
What is a Journeyman?
300
This is the percentage of the European Population that many historians believe died as a result of the plague.
What is 33% (It is estimated that 24 million people died.)
300
This sacred rite of public worship was conducted in the native language of the citizens.
What is the liturgy?
300
This is the general term for the construction projects (such as bridges, parks, roads and hospitals) that Justinian poured money into in order to rebuild Constantinople after the riots.
What is public works?
400
In this legal proceeding, accused people had to pass a dangerous test in order to prove their innocence or guilt.
What is trial by ordeal?
400
These events were held a couple times a year in some towns, and attracted good from all over Europe and the East.
What is a merchant fair?
400
Edward the first, called together this governing body, which gave a voice in government to common people as well as lords.
What is Model Parliament?
400
The formal division in a church or religious body, the excommunication of a cardinal sent from Rome, while only a symbolic act, showed the spilt between east and west was complete.
What is a schism?
400
This body of law, which has become the basis for many laws in the western world, was what the Emporer Justinian is most famour for.
What is Justinian's Code?
500
This is a body of rulings made by judges that became part of a nation's legal system.
What is common law?
500
A person who, in independent towns, often sat on town councils.
What is a guild member?
500
This new feeling shifted power away from lords as many French and British peasants began to feel more loyalty to their kings than their local lords.
What is nationalism?
500
This was the meaning of Theotokos, a nickname for Mary, Jesus' mother.
What is god-bearer?
500
The Greens and the Blues competed in this arena, and at one time the competition and rivalry erupted into a deadly riot that ended up destroying much of Constantinople
What is the Hippodrome?