Chapter 11

Question 1

Great Famine

Answer 1

A terrible famine in 1315-1322 that hit much of Euroupe after a period of climate change

Question 2

Black Death

Answer 2

A plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps 1/3 of the population

Question 3

Flagellants

Answer 3

People who believed the plauge was God’s punishment and sought to do penance (whipping themselves)

Question 4

Hundred Years’ War

Answer 4

A war between England and France from 1337 to 1453 with political and economic causes and consequences

Question 5

Representative Assembilies

Answer 5

Meetings of lords and wealthy urban residents that flourished in many European countries from 1250 to 1450

Question 6

Babylonia Captivity

Answer 6

A period between 1309 to 1376 where popes resided in Avignon rather than Rome. Also refers to the seventy years Hebrews were kept captive in Babylon

Question 7

Great Schism

Answer 7

A division of church leadership from 1378 to 1417 where there were two, then three popes

Question 8

Conciliartists

Answer 8

People who believed the authority of the Roman Church should rest in a general council (clergy, theologians, and laypeople) not just the pope

Question 9

Confraternities

Answer 9

Voluntary lay groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood or charitably

Question 10

Jaquerie

Answer 10

A massive rise of peasants in Frace (1358) protesting heavy taxation

Question 11

English Peasant’s Revolt

Answer 11

Revolt of English peasants in 1381 in response to changing economic conditions

Question 12

Statue of Kilkenny

Answer 12

Law issued in 1366 that discriminated against Irish forbidding marriage between English and Irish, requiring use of the English language and denying Irish access to certain offices