Top position of the European feudal hierarchy
Who is the king/queen?
Name for Norse raiders renowned for pillaging European settlements.
Who are Vikings?
Symptom name for trademark swellings of plague.
What are plague boils, buboes, etc.?
Philosophy and art style that emphasized the beauty and centrality of humankind in the universe
What is Humanism?
Painter and scientist; the most famous of all "Renaissance Men" who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Bottom position of the European feudal hierarchy
Who are peasants/serfs
"Great Charter" intended to limit the powers of the English King and establish a parliament.
What is the Magna Carta?
Fraction of Europe's population that would be wiped out by plague.
What is 1/3?
Powerful banking family who patronized many Renaissance artists
Who are the Medicis?
Critic of church corruption who wrote The Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante?
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Term to describe the relationship of lords to king and knights to lords.
What is a vassal?
Name of Norman Duke who "conquered" England and instated French-Norman customs throughout the land.
Who is William the Conqueror?
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Three primary methods through which plague was transmitted.
What are fleas, rats, and people (via air)?
Practice of paying an artist in advance for a work of art
What is patronage?
Father of Modern Politics and author of The Prince.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
The people living and working in towns who became the middle class.
Who are the bourgeois?
Council of Representatives the Magna Carta sought to establish.
What is Parliament?
Name for 40-day isolation period.
What is a quarantine?
Banking practice of charging interest on loans.
What is usury?
Wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, the first feminist work in European history.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
Agricultural system by which 1/3 of a field would be assigned a particular cultivational purpose.
What is the Three-Field System?
Name of English king who placed his seal on the Magna Carta
Who is King John?
Binomial nomenclature (scientific name) for plague bacterium.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
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Ruling class of artisans and merchants who controlled Italian city-states.
Who are populi grossi
Artistic and engineering genius who learned how to draw realistic 3-D objects and designed the world's largest dome for the Florence Cathedral.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
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