European Explorers
Why did Europeans have interest in Asia?
Silk and spices
Institution at the top of the Middle Age society.
What is the church?
Roman Politician that took Rome from a republic to an empire then was murdered by his fellow statesmen.
Who is Julius Caesar?
What major event did the Dark Ages occur after?
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
Period after the Dark Ages.
What is the Renaissance?
What is a conquistador?
A Spanish explorer and conquerer
The dominant social structure in Medieval Europe where the King gives lands to the nobles in exchange for military service and the serfs work the land in exchange for protection.
What is feudalism?
A 207 year period of good times, peace, and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
What was the Black Death?
What is an illness that killed millions of Europeans during the Dark Ages?
What was the Renaissance known for?
A period of artistic, scientific, and cultural innovations.
What was a cause for European exploration?
Catholic Religious Zeal OR Mercantilism OR Ottoman Dominance of Trade Routes
The head of the Roman Catholic church.
Who is the Pope?
A Roman soldier turned leader who moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the East, effectively weakening the West.
Who is Constantine?
The leader of the Holy Roman Empire who emphasized education and led the Franks.
Who is Charlagmane the Great?
Theory that encouraged people to be curious and to question received wisdom. Hint - H _ma _ i_m
What is Humanism?
Why was it difficult to trade through the Ottoman Empire?
Christians and Muslims were fighting, causing distrust
The order in which society operated during the Middle Ages.
What is Church, Nobility, Peasants?
A 207 year period of good times, peace, and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
Germanic tribe from modern-day Germany that led to the collapse of Western Rome.
Who were the Franks?
Social movement in society directed away from otherworldliness to life on earth. Hint: Sec_ _ _ rism
The Ottomans were a strong trading empire through the mid-1600s because they
controlled access to the eastern Mediterranean Sea
The law that the Catholic Church set out which included topics like religious teachings accepted by the church, crimes, the role of the clergy, and marriage.
What is Canon Law?
Disputes over the authority of the Western Pope’s ability to make rulings affecting the whole Church.
What is the Great Schism?
What was happening to the Byzantine Empire during the Dark Ages?
Renaissance artists, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles named after them.
Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo