Middle Ages
Bubonic plague that killed 1/3 of Europeans
What is the Black Death?
Country where the Renaissance started
What is Italy?
German monk that was a leader in the Reformation, he wrote the 95 theses
Who is Martin Luther?
A warrior on horseback, 3rd tier in the Feudalism pyramid.
What is a knight?
What country discovered a direct route around Africa to South and East Asia allowing them to gain wealth by selling goods
What is Portugal?
Completely committed to religious beliefs
What is devout?
Gives money in support of a person or group
What is a patron?
Article or principal of faith
What is doctrine?
People who were legally required to live and work on a specific manor
What is a serf?
Went to Asia and discovered many different things
What are silks, jewels, and spices?
The period from the fall of Rome 476 to 1500
What is the Middle Ages?
The shift away from purely religious themes to focusing on the human and natural worlds
What is humanism?
Leader of the Catholic faith
Who is the Pope?
The heart of the medieval economy, the agricultural estate of a lord or vassal.
What is a manor?
Continent that traded with Asia that launched the Age od Discovery
What is Europe?
Group of people who conquered most of Spain and North Africa
Who are the Muslims?
A series of military campaigns to establish Christian control over the Holy Land
What is the Crusades?
Catholic response to the Reformation?
What is Counter-Reformation?
a medieval European system where land was given by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty, military service, and labor, creating a social hierarchy from kings down to peasants who worked the land for protection, essentially a system of mutual obligations built on land ownership and service
What is Feudalism?
Man sent to find a trade route to India but found the Carribean
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Many believed that this was the highest authority over both religious and worldly leaders
What is the Church?
Renaissance scientist discovered that Earth revolves around the sun
Who is Galileo?
War fought between Protestants and Catholics that lasted from 1618-1649
What is the Thirty Years' War?
Powerful local leaders that provided military protection
What is a lord?
New technology made it easy for longer explorations to happen
What is new sailing technologies?