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What were the four reasons that trade was lacking in Medieval Europe?

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(1) Travel was dangerous
(2) Lack of money
(3) Trade with East was down
(4) Towns were weak

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What is the exchange of goods for goods (trading)?

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barter

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What were the three principal routes by which the traders from the orient reached the Mediterranean?

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The southern route (entirely water);
the central route (combined land and water);
the northern route, aka the “Silk Road” (an overland route across central Asia connecting Beijing and Constantinople)

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What was the important trade city of France?

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Flandere

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What was the important trade city of Italy?

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Venice

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A _____ is a place of local trade.

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Market

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A _____ is a place of foreign trade.

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Trade Fair

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What was the most famous trade fair?

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Champagne (France)

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Who were the people who judged the approximate value of coins, discovering counterfeit currency, and determining one currency’s value in relation to another?

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moneychangers

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List some things that money changers did (other than change money)

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  • judge value of money
  • guard money
  • lend money
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During the early Middle Ages, _____ merchants had dominated trade in the Mediterranean region.

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Muslim

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What was Flandere’s product?

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Cloth

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A “letter of credit” is most close to our modern _____.

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Check

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14
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What Italian word do we get our word “bank” from?

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“banca”

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What does “banca” mean?

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“bench”

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How did the Markets and Trade fairs influence the Church.

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They started to take peoples interest

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17
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What is usury?

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The practice of charging interest for the use of lent money

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MOD T/F: The church PROMOTED usury.

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False (prohibited)

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The church advocated a “_____ _____” for goods sold- a price for labor expended, and a reasonable profit.

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“just price”

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The privileges granted a town bu a feudal lord were usually written down in a legal document called a _____.

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charter

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What were the four basic freedoms that most townsmen shared?

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Free Status
Exemption from Manorial Obligations
Town Justice
Commercial Privileges

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Briefly explain Free Status.

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No matter what his previous status, a man who lived in a town for a year and a day was considered free.

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Briefly explain the Exemption from Manorial Obligations.

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Town charters usually exempted townsmen from laboring for the lord of the manor. Payment (usually in cash form) was given to the lord instead of laboring for him.

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Briefly explain town justice.

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Instead of being tried in a feudal court and judged by feudal customs, a feudal townsman was tried in the court of his town and was judged by town people and town customs.

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Briefly explain commercial privileges.
The chief commercial freedom granted to townsmen was the right to buy and sell freely in the town market.
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The primary function of a _____ was to regulate the business activity of a given town.
Guilds
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What was the primary function of a guild?
To regulate the business activity of a given town.
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____ provided aide to members in need. They established schools and cared for the poor, widows, and orphans.
Guilds
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MOD T/F: GUILDS were groups of businesses of the same craft/trade that helped each other out.
True
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What are the 3 classes of members in each craft guild?
Apprentice Journeyman Master
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A young boy began his training as a/an _____ (a guild class).
Apprentice
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About how long was an apprenticeship?
2-7 years
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At the end of his apprenticeship, the young man became a/an _____. He could then seek employment and earn wages as a skilled worker.
Journeyman
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To become a/an _____, a man had to have years of experience, funds to open a shop, as well as undergo an examination, present an example of his workmanship (masterpiece), and take an oath to conduct himself according to the regulations of the guild.
Master
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Sometimes towns formed associations to promote and protect their mutual commercial interests. The most famous of these was the _____.
Hanseatic League
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What new social class emerged in the early feudal society (composed of merchants, bankers, craftsmen, and skilled laborers).
Middle Class
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The _____ people (the "men of the town") were known as burgesses in England, bourgeois in France, and burgers in Germany.
Middle Class
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How many people died in the "black death"?
100,000 people, 1/4 of the population
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What were the results of the black death?
Less demand, Less production, Less jobs
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A focus on grammar, rhetoric, and logic; trivium or quadrivium.
Trivium
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A focus on arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music; trivium or quadrivium
Quadrivium
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At first any association of people (scholastically) such as a guild, was called a _____.
Universitas
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The schools and universities of 12th century Europe provided a home for the new intellectual movement known as _____, characterized by a renewed interest in theology and philosophy.
Scholasticism
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What 3 men dealt with Scholastcism?
Anselm Abelard Aquinas
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Who is known as "the prince of the Schoolmen"?
Aquinas
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Who was the archbishop of Canterbury?
Anslem
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Scholasticism is basically the mixture of _____ and _____.
theology and philosophy
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What is theology?
teachings of the church (faith)
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What is philosophy?
the writings of Greek philosophers (reason)
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What did Aquinas write?
Summa Theologica
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What did Abelard write?
Sic et non
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The "new scientific thinker" _____ proposed looking at science using experimentation and observation.
Bacon
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What is the commonly spoken language of a region?
vernacular
54
Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Dante
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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Chaucer
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What is the basic difference between Romanesque and Gothic architecture?
``` Romanesque= simple Gothic= complex ```
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_____ emerged in the late Middle Ages as people in certain regions became more fully aware of their common traditions, language, and religion.
Nation-states
58
What war was fought 1337-1453?
the Hundred Years' War
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What two nations fought in the Hundred Years' War?
England and France
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List some reasons for the Hundred Years' War.
- English claims to French throne | - French encroaching (taking) English lands
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Who won the most battles in the Hundred Years' War?
England
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Who won the Hundred Years' War?
France
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England had better _____ and _____ but France had more _____.
Tactics and Leaders People
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What was the first major French victory?
Orlénes
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What color is associated with York in the Wars of the Roses?
White (a white rose)
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What color is associated with Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses?
red (a red rose)
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How did Henry VII end the wars of the Roses?
He married the enemies daughter
68
What are Spanish Muslims called?
69
The _____ was a council composed of nobles, clergy, and representatives of the cities.
Cortes
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_____ and _____ completed the Reconquista.
Ferdinand and Isabella
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What year was the Reconquista ended?
1492
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By the middle of the 14th century a written constitution known as the _____.
Golden Bull
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The Golden Bull established the _____ of the Holy Roman Empire.
Diet
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The _____ family built a strong base of power among the southern German states.
Hapsburg
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Emperor _____ greatly enlarged the Hapsburg possessions through marriage.
Maximilian I
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Under what pope did the decline of the Roman Catholic Church begin?
Boniface VIII
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What is an official papal document?
(papal) bull
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What does the Unam Sanctum state?
that in order to be saved you need to follow the pope
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From _____ to _____ the popes- all Frenchmen- resided at Avignon.
1309 to 1377
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The period when all the popes resided in Auignon is known as _____.
"Babylonian Captivity"
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A short time after the death of Boniface, a Frenchmen was elected to the papal office; He never set foot in Rome but moved the papal capital from Rome to _____.
Avigon
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For 40 years the _____ _____ divided the allegiance of the nations of Europe.
Great Schism
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What was the Great Schism?
When there were two popes who claimed they were the rightful pope, and eventually, a third
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What church council finally settled the Great Schism?
Council of Constance
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Who did the council of Constance elect as the pope, settling the Great Schism?
Martin V

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