Chapter 14 Section 1

Question 1

Gothic

Answer 1

Relating to a style of chuck architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires.

Question 2

Urban II

Answer 2

A pope who issued a “holy war” a crusade to gain control of the Holy Land

Question 3

Crusade

Answer 3

One of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims

Question 4

Saladin

Answer 4

A Muslim leader and Kurdish warrior who captured Jerusalem

Question 5

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Answer 5

An English king who tried to recapture Jerusalem; Richard was the only monarch left out of three to fight and created a truce instead with Saladin in 1192

Question 6

Reconquista

Answer 6

The effort by Christian leaders to drive Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100’s to 1492

Question 7

Inquisition

Answer 7

A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy- especially the one active in Spain during the 1400’s

Question 8

Simony

Answer 8

The selling or buying of a position in a Christian church