Ch20high West Euro Flashcards

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Western Europe inspired by dream of unification similar to

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Rome

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1200s Marco Polo visits court of

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Khubilai khan

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962 pope john Xii presented imperial crown to

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Otto of saxony I (birth of Holy Roman Empire)

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In the high middle ages the state that seem to have the most potential for a re-centralized state was

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Holy Roman Empire

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Single obstacle of the Holy Roman Empire rise so was

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On going conflict with papacy

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Investiture contest centered on

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Appointment of church officials by Imperial authority

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Investiture contest presented

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Struggle between church and State for power

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Investiture contest reached a peak with Pope Gregory vii and

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Henry iv

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Frederick Barbarossa attempt to gain control over Lombardy blocked by

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Popes

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Who said quip of “Neither holy nor Roman nor an empire”

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Voltaire

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987 French nobles chose who as their king

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Hugh Capet

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987 hugh Capet crowned king of France but ..

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Took centuries for French to build powerful centralized state

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Which state most centralized in early stages

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England

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1066 William of Normandy conquered

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England

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Bayeux tapestry depicts

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Norman invasion and conquest of England

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Italy political structure

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Series of city states and principalities

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Reconquista took place in

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Iberian peninsula

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Not a factor of increased agri support

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Government financial support

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1300 population

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79 mil

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Hanseatic league trading network operated in

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North and Baltic Sea

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Medieval structure phrase

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Those who pray those who fight those who work

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Eleanor of Aquitaine famous for

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Support of Roman poets and troubadours

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Guilds of high Middle Ages

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Almost always admitted women

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Central philosophy of high middle ages was centralized on rediscovery of

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Aristotle

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St Thomas aquinas

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Believed it was possible to prove rationally that God exists

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Most pop saint

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Virgin mary

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Dominicans and Franciscans

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Attacked materialism

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Thomas of celano though “father of the poor” was

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St Francis

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Not true of cathars

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Only hope was church for corrupt work

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Newfound land 1000ce discovered by Scandinavian seafarer

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Leif Ericsson

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Not crusading order

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Franciscans

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11th century roger Guiscard

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Captured Sicily from Muslims

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Last surviving outpost in Spain

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Granada

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First response in attempt of Pope urban ii appeal for crusade came from

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Peter the hermit

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Pope urban ii

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Launched crusades 1095

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Only Crusades that re-captured Jerusalem was

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First crusade

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Jerusalem captured in 1187 by

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Saladin

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Not a consequence of the fourth Crusade

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New spirit of cooperation between Constantinople and the Western Europe

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Fourth Crusade managed to capture

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Constantinople

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Crusades

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Increased trade between Mediterranean east and west