6th - SS Chapter 23 Study Guide Flashcards
What does fallow mean?
Unplanted land
What is another name for the Black Death?
Bubonic Plague
What weapon helped the English win many important battles in the early years of the Hundred Years’ War?
Longbow
What was the language that scholars used across Europe to communicate with each other?
Latin
Scholars wishing to be trained at the highest levels would attend schools or groups of schools called?
Universities
How did the Hundred Years’ War change France and England?
It helped unify each nation and allowed them to develop a sense of patriotism
As these grew larger and more important, so did towns?
Trade and markets
How did the merchant banking work?
Merchants could deposit money in a bank in one city and withdraw money from a bank in a different city
As the desire for expensive clothes, jewelry, and weapons soon led to the need for?
Long-distance trading
The Roman Catholic Church allowed people to watch plays as long as they were based on?
Bible stories
How did medieval universities develop much like a guild did?
Professors and students organized to form universities
During the High Middle Ages, in what style were most new cathedrals built?
Gothic
Why was the income of feudal lords negatively affected by the Black Death?
Because so many peasants had died, manor lords were desperate for workers. Serfs’ who survived demanded wages for their work and left manors to work where wages were highest
Which catastrophe of the High Middle Ages took place first?
Famine
What was the most widely practiced form of Christianity in Western Europe during the Middle Ages?
Roman Catholicism
What are three characteristics of Gothic churches?
- High soaring ceilings
- Larger Windows
- Spacious and airy
How did people living in the High Middle Ages find additional land to cultivate?
Clearing forests and draining marshes
What industry thrived once farming and trade became more advanced?
Banking
Why were Jews targeted during the bubonic plague?
Terrified people were looking for a scapegoat - someone to blame for the Black Death.
How did manor lords react during the Black Death when the remaining serf’s asked for higher wages?
They tried to limit the serf’s movements and freeze the wages at pre-plague levels
What did both members of the Franciscans and the Poor Clara’s believe in?
Simplicity of life and poverty
What was an important advantage of the three-field system?
- Increased the amount of land that could be planted
2. It protected farmers from starvation if one of the crops failed.
How did the Crusades affect medieval trade?
People gained a taste for Asian goods
What group was the primary audience of the mendicant orders?
Ordinary people
How were craft guilds financed?
Members were required to pay a fee
What were three different guilds?
- Merchants
- Grocers
- Shoemakers
How had the role of monasteries changed by the 1200s?
They played a more active role in the world. They were centers of agriculture production, were famous for their farmers methods and many were located in towns.
What was the result of the horse-powered plow?
More land could be cultivated
What group helped carry the bubonic plague from Asia to Europe?
Traders (and rats)
What group helped carry the bubonic plague from Asia to Europe?
Traders
Where did people look for safety during the Black Plague?
Fear of contact drove many to isolation
