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31 Cards in this Set
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Italy
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Gained a monopoly on Mediterranean trade
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Moneychangers
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Good at judging the approximate value of coins
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Influenced the growth of towns in Europe
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a. population increase
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Order of members of a craft guild
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apprentice, journeyman, master
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Middle Class
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a. contributed to the decline of the feudal system
b. threatened the position of the noblemen in society c. weakened the political authority of the noblemen |
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Scholasticism
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Intellectual movement characterized by a renewed interest in theology and philosophy
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Medieval Science
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Was filled with magic and superstition
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Vernacular literature
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first developed in the form of long narrative poems
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Art and architecture of the Middle Ages
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Influenced primarily by the church
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Medieval Hymns
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written by both Francis of Assisi and Bernard of Clairvaux
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English victories in the Hundred Years War
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Agincourt, Crecy, Poitiers
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Joan of Arc
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stirred the French to nationalism
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German nobility
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the real power in Germany as evidenced by the control of the Diet
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Great Schism
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the time period in which more than one pope claimed supremacy
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Council of Constance
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purpose was to end the Great Schism
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barter
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exchange goods for goods
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usury
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practice of charging interest for the use of lent money
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guilds
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organizations formed to regulate the business activities of a given town
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Black Death
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killed one-fourth of Europe's population during the fourteenth century
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vernacular
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common spoken language
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troubadours
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wandering minstrels who traveled from castle to castle singing songs of love and adventure
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longbow
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weapon that greatly aided the English during the Hundred Years' War
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Tudor
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family ruled England as a result of the Wars of the Roses
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Reconquista
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Spanish effort to drive out the Moors from Spain
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Moors
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Spanish Muslims
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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through their marriage, created the nation of Spain
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Hapsburg
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German family that took control of Austria and her possessions
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Chaucer
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wrote about pilgrims traveling to Becket's shrine; gives a good picture of medieval English life
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Dante
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wrote about an imaginary journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise
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Joan of Arc
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motivated the French to fight in the Hundred Year's War
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Bacon
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English scientist
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