Social Studies Ch. 14

Question 0

Gothic

Answer 0

Relating to a style of church architecture that developed, in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires

Question 1

Simony

Answer 1

The selling or buying of a position in a Christian church

Question 2

Urban II

Answer 2

The pope who started the crusades

Question 3

Crusade

Answer 3

One of the expeditions in which medieval Christians warriors sought to recover control of the holy land from the Muslims.

Question 4

Saladin

Answer 4

A Kurdish warrior, and Muslim warrior

Question 5

Richard the lion-heart

Answer 5

The English king, who lead the crusades

Question 6

Reconquista

Answer 6

The effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492

Question 7

Inquisition

Answer 7

A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy-especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s

Question 8

Three-field system

Answer 8

A system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted

Question 9

Guild

Answer 9

A medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members’ wages and prices

Question 10

Commercial Revolution

Answer 10

The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th century

Question 11

Burgher

Answer 11

A medieval merchant-class. Town dweller

Question 12

Vernacular

Answer 12

The everyday language of people in a region or country

Question 13

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 13

A scholar that argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by logical argument

Question 14

Scholastic

Answer 14

Scholars who gathered and taught at medieval European universities

Question 15

William the conqueror

Answer 15

The duke of Normandy

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Henry II

Answer 16

The English king who married Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 17

Common law

Answer 17

A unified body of law formed from rulings of England’s royal judges that serves as the basis for law in many English-speaking countries today, including the United States

Question 18

Magna Carta

Answer 18

“Great Charter”- a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by King John in A.D. 1215

Question 19

Parliament

Answer 19

A body of representatives that makes laws for for a law

Question 20

Hugh Capet

Answer 20

An undistinguished duke from the middle of France

Question 21

Philip II

Answer 21

A powerful Capetians, called Philip Augustus,who ruled from 1180 to 1223.

Question 22

Estates-General

Answer 22

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes in France

Question 23

Avignon

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A place in France where the pope moved to from Rome

Question 24

Great Schism

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A division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes were established in Avignon and in Rome

Question 25

John Wycliffe

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An Englishman who challenged the papacy, he said that Jesus was the true head if there church, and said that the bible was the final say on religious matters not the church.

Question 26

Jan Hus

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A professor in Bohemia, who taught that the authority of the bible was higher than that of the church.

Question 27

Bubonic plague

Answer 27

A deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people

Question 28

Hundred year's war

Answer 28

A conflict in which England and France battled on French soil on and off from 1337 to 1453

Question 29

Joan of Arc

Answer 29

A teenage French girl, who felt moved by god to rescue France from its English conquers.