P&T's

Question 1

Banns

Answer 1

A public announcement by a parish of a couple planned to married. Gives opportunity for objections

Question 2

Hermandades

Answer 2

Popular groups in Spanish towns that granted them the authority to serve as police

Question 3

Republic

Answer 3

A form of government in which the people have the power to rule. Offices were elected, not inherited.

Question 4

condottieri

Answer 4

Mercenary soldier leaders of the Italian Renaissance

Question 5

communes

Answer 5

Groups of men that were freed from their duties from a lord. They wanted self government

Question 6

Jacquerie

Answer 6

An uprising by French peasants in 1358 protesting about the heavy taxation

Question 7

gebelle

Answer 7

French tax on salt

Question 8

Signori

Answer 8

A form of government in which one person holds power

Question 9

Merchet

Answer 9

A fine paid to a lord allowing a women to marry a man outside her manor of birth

Question 10

Flagellants

Answer 10

One that believed that the Plague was God punishment for whipping one another

Question 11

Oligarchies

Answer 11

A form of government by the merchant aristocracy in Italian cities

Question 12

Fuggers

Answer 12

A German baking family who became wealthy by the 16th century

Question 13

Popolo

Answer 13

People in Italian communes who could not vote and was offended by their exclusion from power