Vocabulary
The Black Death
Medieval Times
The Renaissance
The Reformation
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Latin for "middle ages"
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This time period did not have much written records due to a lack of Centralized government in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. So Historians are so what left in the DARK about this time period.
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During the Crusades, Arab Muslims passed on what they knew about Greek and Roman works to western Europeans. These scholars helped preserve Classical knowledge that was lost after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Books could be quickly printed by machine rather than slowly written by hand, making many more books available to people. Ideas developed and spread more quickly than ever before.
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A Muslim society from North Africa, who successfully conquered Spain in 711 AD. They called this European territory Al-Andalus, which overtime was also made up of Gibraltar, most of Spain and Portugal, and parts of France.
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It killed at least ⅓ of Europe’s population during the 1300s
It spread quickly through flea bites and close contact with infected people
Many different types of Europeans died from it (no one was safe)
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The Mongols lived in round, moveable houses they called yurts. They had few material possessions. They knew little about mining and cared nothing about farming. They were nomadic people who lived off the meat, milk, and hide of horses, and the meat and wool of sheep.
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Translating writings of Classical Knowledge and Renaissance ideas into the everyday language people spoke in different areas helped to spread this information faster throughout Europe.
200
Practicing another religion that is not Catholic
Speaking out against church practices
Not paying tithes
Believing in something that goes against what the church says is true
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The spread of one group of people's ideas, customs and/or technologies to other groups of people, usually through trade or conquest.
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Both of these societies of people eventually formed their own powerful Empires, which took up different regions of Europe.
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Humanistic values, such as wealth and worldly things
Perfect Human Form (Realistic)
Not always a Religious theme to this artwork
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This English King started his own church in order to have the power to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. He made himself the head of his Anglican church (The Church of England).
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A religious belief started by Calvinism that says God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will not.
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The plague likely started in Asia and traveled westward along the Silk Road. The disease was carried by fleas that lived on rats. Historians think that black rats living on European merchant ships caught the disease, eventually bringing it to Europe.
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During the 1300s, due to ancient Roman culture inspiring knowledge and art, as well as the wealthy of Italian city-states supporting artistic efforts.
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Pope Leo X thought Luther was dangerous because he challenged Catholic practices such as the selling of indulgences. The Catholic Church put Luther on trial, and he was found guilty of HERESY. Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic church and went into hiding for the rest of his life.
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A religious court set up in Spain that found and punished those guilty of heresy and/or being part of another religion that was not Catholic. The court would torture people until they confessed their "sins."
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WHY is this source important to our understanding of the Black Death?
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Why is this source important to our understanding of the Crusades?
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WHO was this Renaissance statue most likely created for?
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What is this source trying to tell us?
