Chapter 13\ Flashcards
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Black Death
The term historians give to the disease that swept through Europe in 1347-1352
Hundred Year’s War
The long war between England and France, 1337-1453 (actually 116 years); it produced numerous social upheavals yet left both states more powerful than before
Jacquerie (zhah kuh REE)
The 1358 uprising of French peasants against the nobles amid the Hundred Years war; it was brutally put down
Great Schism
The papal dispute of 1378-1417 when the church had two and even (between 1409 and 1417) three popes. The great schism was ended by the council of constance
Indulgences
A step beyond confession and penance, an indulgence (normally granted by the popes or bishops) lifted the temporal punishment still necessary for a sin already forgiven. Normally that punishment is said to take place in purgatory. But it could be remitted through good works (including prayers and contributing money to worthy causes)
Humanism
A literary and linguistic movement cultivated in particular during the Renaissance (1350-1600) and founded on reviving Classical Latin and Greek texts, styles and values
Hanseatic League
A league of the Northern European cities formed in the 14th century to protect their mutual interests in trade and defence
Inquisitions
a judicial procedure and later an institution that was established by the papacy and sometimes by the secular governments to combat heresy
Expulsion of the Jews (Spain)
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Joan of Arc
A peasant girl (1412-1431) whose conviction that God had sent her to save France in fact helped France win the Hundred years war
Mehmed II
The sultan under whom the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453
Francis Petrarch
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Medici (meh dih chee)
The ruling family of Florence during much of the 15th to 17th centuries
Jan Hus
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