Religion Vocab
What is the difference between monotheism & polytheism?
Monotheism = belief in one God
Polytheism = belief in many Gods
What does corrupt mean?
To abuse a position of power for your own personal gain
The Dark Ages
The Medieval Period
What was another name for the Black Death?
Bubonic Plague
What does atheism mean?
Which act of corruption involved priests buying their way into their positions of power?
Simony
The Middle Ages occurred between which two time periods?
The Roman Empire & The Renaissance
Which animal and insect are responsible to the Black Death infecting humans?
Rats & Fleas
Which of the five major world religions is non-theistic?
Buddhism
What were the four major acts of corruption the Church was involved in?
- Simony
- Enforcing pilgrimages
- Excommunication
- Selling of Indulgences
What is one way we know the church was very important to people during the Middle Ages?
- People paid taxes to the Church
- People prayed about everything many times a day
- Church was the center of people's lives
What was flagellation?
The act of whipping yourself to repent for your sins during the Black Death
What is one thing that happens in a theocracy?
- Government runs the religion
- Freedoms are restricted
- Everyone must follow the government's religion
What was selling of indulgences?
The Church selling tickets to Heaven to people.
What was Feudalism?
The class system during the Middle Ages
How did the Black Death change society? List two ways.
- Less people to follow the Church
- People stopped trusting the Church
- Less people to do the work
- Began a working middle class
What is an example of something being secular?
- Separation of Church & State
- Freedom of religion
It threatened people who questioned the Church and made people afraid of the clergy.
- People needed hope
- Roman Empire fell
- Kings converted to Christianity
- Taxing the people
What two things did the Church tell people to do to repent for their sins during the Black Death?
Flagellation & Pilgrimages