"Flea" before you die
This disease ravaged Europe in the mid-Fourteenth Century. It spread when fleas jumped from rats to the clothes and belongings of travelers.
What is Black Death?
What is a heresy?
A powerful new weapon used by English archers.
What is the Longbow?
Located at the heart of the Vikings' trade with Constantinople.
Where is Kiev?
Everyday language of ordinary people.
What is the vernacular?
An outbreak of a rapid spreading disease.
What is an epidemic?
He believed the Bible to be the source of truth.
Who is Wycliffe?
This monarchy was weakened due to the long war.
Introduced during the Byzantine Empire, this alphabet is still the written script that is still used today in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, and other Eastern European countries.
What is Cyrillic?
What is Divine Comedy?
It is likely this group brought the disease to Europe after conquering much of Asia.
Who are the Mongols?
After the Reformers elected their own Pope to rule in Rome, this group chose a rival Pope to serve in Rome.
Who are the French Cardinals?
She told Charles VII that God had sent her to save France. She was burned at the stake and later declared a saint.
He united the nomadic Mongols of Central Asia in the early 1200s.
Who is Ghengis Khan?
Supports that builders to construct higher, thinner walls, and leave space for large stained-glass windows.
What are flying buttresses?
Groups that pushed to limit wages and guild advancement.
Who are the Landowners and Merchants?
The event that split the Church in 1378 AD.
What is the election of 2 or 3 rival popes?
They lost French lands in the Hundred Years' War.
What is England?
He introduced new laws that tied Russian serfs to the land.
Who is Ivan the Terrible or Ivan IV?
Historian who savagely criticized Emperor Justinian and the Empress Theodora.
They lost bargaining power with the peasants.
Who are the landed nobles?
He was burned at the stake for their ideas, which were contrary to Church beliefs.
Who is Jan Huss?
His armies invaded France.
Who is Edward III?
The Hungarian Charter that strictly limited royal power.
What is the Golden Bull of 1222?
He is the author whose writing follows a band of English pilgrims traveling to Thomas Becket's tomb.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?