Lesson 1
What is the definition of excommunicate?
To exclude a person from a church or a religious community.
What is the definition of standardized?
The same everywhere
What is the definition of establish?
To set up.
What is the definition of legal?
Having to do with the law.
What is the definition of invisible?
not visible.
A German king known as Otto the Great increased his power by?
Making alliances with other German nobles.
How did the Normans grow rich?
By collecting taxes from traders who crossed their land.
What does "Deus le veult" mean?
God wills it!
What is the definition of determined?
To have a strong feeling about doing something.
What were the trade networks linked to?
China, India, and the Middle East.
Who was Otto the Great?
A German King.
What is the definition of parliament?
An assembly of representatives.
What did Pope Gregory create in the 1200s?
Inquisition.
What was the Reconquista?
The movement to drive the Muslims from Spain.
What is the definition of networks?
A closely interconnected group of people or things.
What is the definition of authority?
The power to make decisions and rules
How many years would English not reappear as a language of government?
300 years.
What is the definition of region?
An area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history.
Who did Ferdinand of Aragon marry?
Isabella of Castile-Leon.
What was the deadly infection called?
Black Death.
Why was there a struggle between popes and rulers?
After Gregory and Henry died.
Who was Henry II, old friend?
Thomas Becket.
Who were the Crusades?
A series of military campaigns to take over the Holy Land.
In Spain, how many people did they lose?
More than 160,000
Towns and the countryside lost a vast number of people from every social rank. What were the social ranks?
Peasants, merchants, priests, scholars, nobles.