Chapter 12 Flashcards
What term refers to a piece of agricultural land controlled by powerful armed men?
Fief
What structure served to protect land from attackers but also served as a base of control and
extortion of a land’s people?
Castle
Who was the central figure of castles?
Knight
Who were the bourgeois?
Middle Class
All of the following were agricultural improvements in eleventh century Europe EXCEPT
Mechanical reaper
What was the name given to the five highest ranking bishops who ran the church via separate
geographic regions?
Patriarchs
The split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church is known as the
Schism
During the Twelfth Century Renaissance, Cathedral Schools began to teach all of the
following EXCEPT
Mathematics
What English document started to limit the king’s power and created traditions such as a
council called parliament?
Magna Carta
The movement to reconcile Christian theology with human reason through the use of logic
was called
Scholasticism
The Reconquista was an effort by Christian kingdoms to reconquer what region from Muslim
rule?
Spain
The Crusades were an effort by Christian kingdoms to retake what region from Muslim
control?
Jerusalem
