Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Question 1

Religious officials

Answer 1

Clergy

Question 2

Important religious ceremony

Answer 2

Sacrament

Question 3

Law of the church

Answer 3

Canon law

Question 4

Kingdom originally made up of what is now Germany and Italy

Answer 4

Holy Roman Empire

Question 5

Appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles

Answer 5

Lay Investiture

Question 6

Practice of selling positions in the church

Answer 6

Simony

Question 7

Style of architecture of the cathedrals during the Middle Ages

Answer 7

Gothic

Question 8

Pope who called for the first crusade

Answer 8

Urbane II

Question 9

Holy War

Answer 9

Crusade

Question 10

English king who fought Saladin in the third crusade

Answer 10

Richard the Lion-hearted

Question 11

Famous Muslim leader of the 1100’s

Answer 11

Saladin

Question 12

Farmland divided into three equal-sized fields in which crops were rotated

Answer 12

Three-field System

Question 13

An organization working to get the best prices and working conditions

Answer 13

Guild

Question 14

The expansion of trade and changes in business practices

Answer 14

Commercial Revolution

Question 15

Merchant-class person who lived in a town

Answer 15

Burgher

Question 16

Everyday language

Answer 16

Vernacular

Question 17

Scholar who argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by sound reasoning

Answer 17

Thomas Aquinas

Question 18

Scholars who gathered and taught at universities

Answer 18

Scholastics

Question 19

Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066 and claimed the English Crown

Answer 19

William the Conqueror

Question 20

English king who added French lands to English holdings by marrying Eleanor of Aquitaine

Answer 20

Henry II

Question 21

A body of rulings by English Judges

Answer 21

Common law

Question 22

Great charter, which guaranteed certain basic political rights

Answer 22

Magna Carta

Question 23

Body of representatives that make laws for a nation

Answer 23

Parliament

Question 24

Founder of the dynasty that ruled France from 987-1328

Answer 24

Hugh Capet

Question 25

One of the most powerful Canetian kings

Answer 25

Philip II

Question 26

A council of representatives that advise the French king

Answer 26

Estates-General

Question 27

City in France where the pope moved temporarily

Answer 27

Avignon

Question 28

Division in the church created by having pipes in both Avignon and Rome

Answer 28

Great Schism

Question 29

English scholar who argued that the Bible was the final authority for Christian life

Answer 29

John Wycliffe

Question 30

Bohemian scholar who taught that the Bible was the final authority for Christian life

Answer 30

Jan Hus

Question 31

Period in the early 14th century when weather patterns changed and people starved

Answer 31

Great famine

Question 32

Deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid 14th century

Answer 32

Bubonic Plague

Question 33

War between England and France that waged from 1337-1453

Answer 33

Hundred Years’ War

Question 34

French peasant who lead the French army to victory at Orleans

Answer 34

Joan of Arch