Social Studies Test #9-10
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- Black Death
- A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
- Benedict
- Most European monasteries followed a set of rules created in the early 500s by an Italian monk
- Topography
- Refers to the shape and elevation of the land in a region
- Crusades
- Were a long series of wars between Christians and muslims in the Southwest Asia
- Medieval
- Another name for the middle ages
- Augustas
- Rome's first emperor
- Byzantine Empire
- The society that developed in the eastern Roman empireafter the west fell was called __________
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- A french women who had great political power.
- Friars
- People who belonged to religious order but lived and worked among the general public
- Clovis
- He was the king of the Franks by the 480s. He had built a huge kingdom in Gaul. He was also one of the most powerful of all the German kings
- Hundred Years' War
- A long conflict between England and France that came to be called ___________
- Pope Urban II
- The Pope of the Roman Catholic church
- Manor
- The large estate owned by a knight or lord was _________
- Feudalism
- Historians call this system of promises that governed the relationship between lords and vassals
- King Ferdinand
- He married Queen isabella in 1469 and later became king
- Emperor Henry IV
- Trouble arose when Gregory disapproved of a bishop chosen by the whole Roman
- Saladin
- The leader of the muslim forces. He was a brilliant leader.
- Diocletian
- He took power in the late 200s
- Theodora
- Was the husband of Justinian and helped him make good choices
- Corruption
- The decay of peoples value
- Monasteries
- Communities of monks
- King Richard I
- He was the only one that stayed in the holy land
- Thomas Aquinas
- Is the Dominican philosopher
- Eurasia
- The landmass that include both Europe and Asia
- Parliament
- In time the councildeveloped into __________ the law making body that governs England today
- Monks
- Were religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
- Constantine
- He was the emperor after Diocletian left power and he reunited the two halves of the Roman empire for a short period
- Spanish Inquisition
- An organization of priests that look for and punish anyone in spain suspected of secretly practicing their old religion
- Joan of Arc
- Is a pheasent girl that rallied the french troops
- Reconquista
- Efforts to retake Spain from the Moors
- Charlemagne
- He was a brilliant warrior and a very strong king.
- Haiku
- A short three-lined poems of 17 syllables that describes nature scenes.
- Knights
- Warriors who fought on horse back
- Mosaics
- Pictures made with pieces of colored stone or glass
- William the Conqueror
- In 1066 he and his knights sailed to England and defeated the english king and he became king.
- Vassal
- A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land.
- Middle Ages
- A period lasted about 500 to about 1500
- Holy Land
- The place where jesus had lived, preached, and died.
- Religious Order
- Is a group of people who didicate their lives to religion and follow common rules.
- Excommunicate
- Casted out of the church
- Justinian
- He was an emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 and reuniting the empire was his passion
- Clergy
- Church officials
- Natural Law
- A law governed how the world operated and its called _____________
- Hershey
- Religious ideas that opposed accepted the church teaching are called ______________
- Citizens
- The people who could participate in the government
- Aqueducts
- Human made channels that carried water from distant mountain ranges into Rome or other cities
- Magna Carta
- This document listing rights that the king could not ignore
- Francis of Assisi
- Franciscans named for their founders Dominic de Guzman and____________
- Attila
- He was the leader of the Huns and he was a brilliant leader and a scary enemy
- Queen Isabella
- Married Ferdinand in 1469 and later became queen
- Chivalry
- Europeans called their code of honorable behavior for knights.
- Pope Gregory VII
- In 1073a new pope came to power in Rome
- Serfs
- workers who were tied to the landon which they lived
- Patrick
- He was the first misionaries to travel to northern Europe