Middle Ages Pre Semester

Question 1

What was Europe like in the 1300s?

Answer 1

Famines and harvests were bad

Question 2

Epizootics

Answer 2

Epidemic diseases among animals

Question 3

How many starved?

Answer 3

Tens of thousands

Question 4

How many died from epidemic illnesses?

Answer 4

Tens of thousands

Question 5

Ratio of dead from 1315-1316

Answer 5

1 in 10

Question 6

What about the wealthy aristocracy?

Answer 6

Continued to live in luxury

Question 7

Why was the Grain price high?

Answer 7

The demand extended the supply

Question 8

When did the Black Plague strike?

Answer 8

1347

Question 9

What is the bubonic plague?

Answer 9

Bacteria in fleas cause lymph nodes

Question 10

What is the Pneumonic Plague

Answer 10

Causes issues to lungs

Question 11

Where did the plague begin?

Answer 11

Mongolia

Question 12

What percent of English and Northeastern France died?

Answer 12

40 &60

Question 13

What lands did the Mongol armies conquer?

Answer 13

China, Northern India, and Russ

Question 14

What are the roots of the 100 year wars?

Answer 14

1. English kings’ continuing claim to territories in Franch
2. English support for the Flemish rebillion
3. English and French both claimed to French heir

Question 15

Where did the war take place?

Answer 15

France

Question 16

English King Edward III

Answer 16

Claimed French throne

Question 17

French King Philip Valois (Philip IV)

Answer 17

Claimed French throne

Question 18

French Capetian King Charles IV

Answer 18

Died on throne without a heir

Question 19

Which cities survived?

Answer 19

Milan and Nuremberg

Question 20

Flagellants

Answer 20

Followed the Christian Hermits, in self-mutilating and self-beating sects

Question 21

Dominican Priest Master Eckart

Answer 21

Do not need the church

Question 22

Thomas Kempis

Answer 22

Wrote Imitation of Christ- could achieve salvation by reading the bible

Question 23

English Theologian John Wyclif

Answer 23

Predestiantion, all we could do was live well, church was unneccassary

Question 24

Lollards/ Lollard movement

Answer 24

Followers of John Wyclif, punishable by death, rebelled in 1414, faded after 1414 and merged with Puritan movement

Question 25

Pope Boniface VII

Answer 25

died in 1303, captured by French army

Question 26

Babylonian Captivity

Answer 26

Captivity of Hebrews in Babylon

Question 27

Pope Gregory XI

Answer 27

died in 1388

Question 28

Italian Bishop Urban VI

Answer 28

1388 College of Cardinals named him pope,month later changed decision but he refused to step down, named new college of cardinals, ruled from Rome

Question 29

French Bishop Clement VII

Answer 29

Appointed after Urban VI, ruled from Avignon

Question 30

Great Schism

Answer 30

bishops in europe declared loyalty to two different popes

Question 31

What did England grow?

Answer 31

Raising sheep for wool, and growing flax

Question 32

What did Northern Europe grow?

Answer 32

Dairy Production

Question 33

What did Germany grow?

Answer 33

Rye (grain)

Question 34

What did France grow?

Answer 34

Grapes for Wine

Question 35

Hanseatic League

Answer 35

Baltic Sea Port, and port cities of Northern German (lead countries of commerce), dominated European trade in grain, furs, amber, and other

Question 36

What did the Italian cities dominate in?

Answer 36

Spices and in textiles (silks, woolens)

Question 37

Jan Hus

Answer 37

Translated Bible into Czech, encouraged people to read on own, take bread and wine, in 1415 was invited to speak at the Council of Constance, instead arrested and burned him at the stake

Question 38

Hussites/ Hussites Rebellion

Answer 38

Jan Hus's followers, rebelled agaisnt church and the Roman Emperor, reach concord in 1434- recognize authority and drink wine

Question 39

Taborites

Answer 39

Miltary army of the Hussites, destroyed emporers knights

Question 40

Pope Martin V

Answer 40

Recognized as new Roman pope, end of Great Schism

Question 41

Conciliarist Controversy

Answer 41

The debate over whether the pope or the council of prelates exercised sovereignty over the church

Question 42

French King Charles VII

Answer 42

1429, gave army to peasant girl

Question 43

Joan of Arc

Answer 43

Peasant girl who heard God, won series of battles against English, burned at the stake

Question 44

Giovanni Boccaccio

Answer 44

Wrote Decameron around 1350