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
