CHAPTER 11 VOCABULARY(DEFINITION) Flashcards

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plague

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highly contagious disease

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Black Death

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a form of the bubonic plague and lowered the devotion to the christian church

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Muslim Turks

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took over the Christian capital of Constantinople

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Pope Clement V

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appointed mostly French cardinals which appeared to place the papacy under the control of the French king

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Pope Gregory XI

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moved the papacy back to Rome in 1377

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Pope Urban VI

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proposed reforms that the cardinals disliked

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antipope

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not the true pope

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Great Schism of the West

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a split in the Catholic Church that developed in the late 1300s when competing groups of cardinals elected two new popes, each one claiming to be the real pope

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Renaissance

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the period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age

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Humanism

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a Renaissance philosophy that emphasized the importance of the person

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