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3 influential Germanic kingdoms were |
ostrogothics, Franks, and Anglo-saxons |
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The Scourge of God was the name given to |
Attila the Hun |
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The 3 methods of determining guilt or innocence in the Germanic system were |
compensation, trial by ordeal combat, and swearing a solemn oath |
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Many Germanic tribes were __________ Christians |
Arian |
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Clovis |
established Frankish kingdom |
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Vortigern |
invited Angles and Saxons to England |
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Valens |
Roman emperor killed by Visigoths |
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Alaric |
king of the Visigoths |
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Theodoric |
king of Ostrogoths |
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Gaiserac |
Vandal leader |
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Odoacer |
deposed Roman emperor in 476 |
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Theodosius |
made peace with the Visigoths |
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Slavs |
eastern European tribe |
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Huns |
Asiatic tribe |
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How do the 3 Germanic kingdoms described differ from each other? |
Ostrogothics were more Roman, Frankish were almost purely Germanic, Anglo-saxon combination of several cultures; Roman celtic, native Briton, and Anglo-saxons |
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the emperor who codified Roman law in the Corpus Juris Civilis was |
Justinian the Great |
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Another name for the Eastern Empire was the |
Byzantine Empire |
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Justinian's successful general was |
Belisarius |
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the 4 "doctors" of the Church are |
Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, and Ambrose |
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Boethius wrote |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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Benedict established his monastery at |
Monte Cassino |
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Islam means |
submission to God |
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Koran |
holy book of Islam |
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597 |
conversion of England |
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Jarrow |
Bede's monastery |
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Ulfila |
Arian missionary |
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The scourge of God |
Attila |
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Witan |
Counselor a to Germanic king |
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Vandals |
Germanic tribe |
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Clovis |
Established Frankish kingdom |
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Ambrose |
Doctor of the Church |
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Caliph |
Islamic ruler |
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5 Germanic tribes are |
Ostrogoths, Visigoths, vandals, Anglo-Saxons, and franks |
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The Ostrogoth ruler who deposed odoacer was |
Theodoric |
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Theodoric the Ostrogoth established his capital city in |
Ravenna |
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The archaeological find that gave scholars an insight into early anglo-Saxon culture was |
A burial ship in sutton hoo |
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The British king who asked for aid from the angles and Saxons in the 5th century was |
Vortigern |
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The eastern empire became known as the |
Byzantine empire |
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The establishment of Catholicism In the Western Europe is credited to |
Clovis |
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What did most Germanic kingdoms have in common |
They had warriors appointed as kings and most were allied with Christians |
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What did Clovis accomplish |
He established the Frankish kingdom and established Catholicism in
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What epic poem describes many of the treasures found at sutton hoo |
Beowulf |
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The Frankish kings of the 7th century were called |
Do-nothing-kings |
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Charlemagne was crowned emperor on ______ in the year ____ by pope ___ |
Christmas Day, 800, and Leo 3 |
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Charlemagne's missi dominici were assigned to |
Check the local courts and report the state of the empire |
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Counts ruled over |
Counties |
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Marches are |
Frontier areas |
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Charlemagne's capital city was |
Aix-la-chapelle |
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The greatest scholar brought to Charlemagne's court came from |
England |
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The treaty of verdun was made in |
843 |
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In 911 Charles the simples allowed Vikings to settle in what was later called |
Normandy |
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The Magyars were a ____ tribe |
Asiatic |
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The anglo-Saxon pod, ____ was probably written in the 7th or 8th century |
BeowulfBeowulf |
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One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as _______, who died in 735 |
Venerable bede |
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Basil was not a ________ but he was the ______, a _________ and _________ |
Roman emperor, Bulgarian Slayer, Macedonian king, and emperor from 976-1025 |
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During the reign of Basil 2, the Byzantine Empire gained the most territory held since the reign of |
Justinian |
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During the reign of Basil 2, _____ became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine __________ reached its highest point |
Constantinople and culture |
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When was iconoclasm condemned by an ecumenical council |
787 |
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When was the coronation of Charlemagne |
800 |
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When was the break between Roman and Eastern churches |
1054 |
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when did Leo the third destroy religious statues |
726 |
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The major Islamic Caliphate after 750 was |
Abbasid |
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Baghdad, capital of the Islamic Empire, was captured by the ______ in 1055 |
Turks |
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"the Hammer" |
Charles Martel |
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crowned Charlemagne |
Pope Leo the third |
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1055 |
fall of Baghdad Turks |
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Abbot |
head of monastery |
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Rollo |
viking leader |
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Boethius |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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Aix-la-Chapelle |
Charlemagne's capital |
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Jerome |
Latin Vulgate |
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Emperor Leo the third |
leader of iconoclast movement |
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Alciun of York |
English scholar |
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A religious image or picture is sometimes called |
an icon |
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The Frankish kings of the 7th century were called the |
do-nothing-kings |
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The Donation of Pepin refers to |
Papal states |
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Another term for the Germanic practice of compensation was |
wergild |
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The Treaty of Verdun |
divided Charlemagne's kingdom |
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The Vikings were also called |
Norsemen |
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A famous illuminated manuscript is |
Book of Kells |
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The spread of Western monasticism was due largely to |
St. Benedict |
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Charlemagne's father was |
Pepin the Short |
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East Frankland was given to |
Louis the German |
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The crowning of Charlemagne was both _____ and ______ significant |
politically and religiously |
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_________ was a cultural center in the tenth century |
Muslim Spain |
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Alfred was king od |
Wessex |
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The Praetorian Guard was |
the emperor's personal guard |
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After the 5th century, the Bishop of Rome was referred to as |
Pope |
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The Huns, Magyars, Mongols, and Bulgars were _____ tribes |
Asiatic |
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3 causes for the barbarian invasions of the 4th century were |
pushed westward by Huns, wanting to move to the Mediterranean, the weakened state of Roman military power |
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Monte Cassino was |
the place where Benedict established his monastery |
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The 1st Germanic king to become a Roman Catholic was ____, king of the |
Clovis, king of the Franks |
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What was the comitatus? |
Relationship between a leader and his warriors. The warriors swore complete alliance to the king or leader. The leader, in turn, took care of the needs of his warriors, including payment of debts |
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Why did the Arab invasions begin? |
Because they needed land and grazing areas, nomadic tribes moving north, Muhammad was a strong religious and political leader, and Islam provided a reason for conquest |
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What was the Carolingian Renaissance? |
A period of time during Charlemagne's reign when schools were established, scholars were sought out to teach, classics were preserved, illuminated manuscripts were produced, and Alcuin was brought from England |
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Fief |
Land granted by a king or lord |
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Reeve |
Selected by peasants to represent them |
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Apprentice |
A young man wanting to learn a trade |
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Page |
First step to knighthood |
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Guild |
Business organization |
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Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales |
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Bologna |
Early university |
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El cid |
Spanish epic |
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Euclid |
Geometry |
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Dante |
Divine Comedy |
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What is feudalism |
A social, economic and political system of the High Middle Ages where vassals gave military service to lords in return of protection and land |
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What is manorialism |
Social and economic system of the Middle Ages |
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What is the Chivalric code |
Code of a knight |
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The Carolingian line of kings was followed by the ____ line of kings |
Capetian |
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The Capetian king who led the seventh and eight crusades was |
St. Louis |
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Joan of arc led the French army against the siege at |
Orleans |
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The Danish king who ruled England from 1016 to 1035 was |
Canute |
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The document that king john was forced to sign by his nobles was |
Magna Carta |
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House of lancaster |
Red rose |
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Otto the great |
First emperor of Holy Roman Empire |
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Battle of hastings |
1066 |
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HOuse of York |
White rose |
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"El cid" |
Hero of Spanish reconquista |
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What causes the hundred years war |
A double claim to the throne in FranceFrance |
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What caused the war of the roses |
Henry VI's weak and disastrous reign |
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What was monastic reform? |
When the monasteries wanted to make things better and right |
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What were the mendicant orders of the 12th and 13th centuries? |
They were new orders founded to fight the spread of heresies |
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Pope Innocent the third gained political victories over both __________ of France and ____________ of England |
Philip Augustus and King John |
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The Franciscans were founded by |
Francis of Assisi |
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2 mendicant orders were begun by _______(1182-1216) and ___________(1170-1221) |
Francis of Assisi and Dominic |
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Thomas Aquinas wrote the |
Summa Theologica |
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Constantinople was captured for the first time by ______ in _____ |
4th crusaders and 1204 |
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5 reasons for the final decline of the Byzantine empire are |
internal power struggles, capture by Constantinople, invasions, loss of trade, black plague |
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The Byzantine Empire ended with the fall in _____ to the __________ in ______ |
1453, Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople |
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the last Byzantine emperor was |
Constantine XI |
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Janissary corps |
elite corps of Ottoman Turks |
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Genghis Khan |
great Mongol leader |
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Tatars |
Mongol and Turkish tribes |
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Khambalik |
modern Beijing |
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Kublai Khan |
established Mongol capital in Khambalik |
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Varangians |
Viking Russians |
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Golden Horde |
Mongol territory in Russia |
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Danial |
established Moscow |
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Alexander Nevski |
Russian national hero |
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Ivan the Great |
first "tsar" |
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The Ummayad Kingdom of Cordoba was ________(religion) |
muslim |
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Cluny was a reformed _________ |
monastery |
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Scholasticism was a system of |
religious philosophy |
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Chaucer was a great ________ |
English poet |
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Dante |
great Italian poet |
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first great Russian monarch |
Ivan the Great |
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Augustine of Canterbury |
missionary to Englandq |
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The Song of Roland |
French epic |
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King John |
Magna Carta |
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Notre Dame de Paris |
Gothic Architecture |
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Bailiff |
ran the financial business of the manor |
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trivium |
Latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic |
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The granting of land by a noble to a lesser noble was called |
subinfeudation |
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The ceremony in which one became a vassal was called |
investiture |
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The first 2 steps to knighthood were |
page and squire |
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The steps to becoming a master craftsman were |
apprenticeship and becoming a journey man |
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2 early formal universities were |
Bologna and Paris |
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The medieval quadrivium included _______, _____, ______, and _________ |
arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy |
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Chaucer's collection of medieval tales is called |
the Canterbury Tales |
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2 styles of architecture in the Middle Ages were |
Romanesque and Gothic |
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Philip Augustus founded the University of |
Paris |
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Harold Godwinson was defeated at the Battle of ______________ by ______ in the year ________ |
Hastings, William, and 1066 |
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Why did Germany fail to develop a strong succession of monarchies? |
Because they sought power and conquest instead of successful monasteries |
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Who fought in the Hundred Years War and who won? |
England and France fought, France won |
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What was the Reconquista and how long did it last? |
A period of battles between Muslims and Christians that lasted 800 years |
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What are the 7 sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church that were central to medieval Christian belief? |
baptism, confirmation, penance, the Holy Eucharist, matrimony, holy orders, and extreme unction |
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What were the crusades? |
They were military expeditions that failed. They were launched to help stop the spread of heresies. |
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Describe briefly the development of monastic tradition from the beginnings to the reform and mendicant orders of the 13th century |
Monasticism started off as just a way of life. Monks would take vows of obedience and poverty. But then the reforms started because the monasteries were too wealthy. Eventually, the mendicant orders were passed to help monasticism become what it was and for the monks to help others again |