Europe ca 1400

Question 1

Manorial System

Answer 1

Also known as the Feudalism system. The Manorial system is comprised of Kings > Nobles > Knights > peasants.

Question 2

Lord’s and Fiefs

Answer 2

Own and rent out land.

Question 3

Vassals and Homage

Answer 3

Vassals manage the land, and pay homage from the land to their Lord.

Question 4

serfs

Answer 4

Work the land

Question 5

Medieval warmness period

Answer 5

Warm period in History that allowed farms to produce more grain and food thus allowing population to increase.

Question 6

Urbanization

Answer 6

serfs moving into cities and urban centers

Question 7

Guilds

Answer 7

insured product quality and also controlled the production of products and could increase and limit production

Question 8

Merchants

Answer 8

travelled around selling goods outside of guilds.

Question 9

Merchant towns

Answer 9

founded by Merchants who got charters form lords to found towns, sold goods freely.

Question 10

Types of Cities:

Answer 10

City States, Imperial Cities, Capital Cities, Merchant Towns.

Question 11

Benedictine monks

Answer 11

THE MAJOR monastic order of the 1400’s

Question 12

Carthusians

Answer 12

Hermit (Monsastic Order)

Question 13

Cistercians

Answer 13

A more strict version of the Benedictine monks

Question 14

Franciscans

Answer 14

Dedicated themselves to serving the poor

Question 15

Dominicans

Answer 15

Intellectuals

Question 16

Augustinians

Answer 16

Famous for Luther.

Question 17

Univserities

Answer 17

Arose after “renaissance” of Latin and Greek works and Literature

Question 18

Scholasticism

Answer 18

Harmonizes religion with secular teachings

Question 19

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 19

Famous Scholastic

Question 20

Power of Papacy

Answer 20

Innocent III (1198-1216) Vicar of Christ (Consolidate power for the office of pope)

Question 21

4th Lateran Council (1215)

Answer 21

Affirmation of Pope’s power, Transubstation is affirmed, and the celibacy of the clergy is affirmed.

Question 22

Gothic Cathedral

Answer 22

Symbol of High Middle Ages, Church and God are the center of the town and civ.