Late Middle Ages Flashcards
In the early fourteenth century, the agricultural economy in Europe had begun to…
decline due to excessive cultivation on marginal land and a cooling climate.
The plague in the fourteenth century reduced the total population of western Europe by…
one-third.
For many workers the plague led to
higher wages and more opportunities.
Governments tended to respond to the plague with…
restrictions on wages and prices.
During the English Peasants’ Revolt the peasants demanded an end to…
unpaid labor obligations.
When the English Peasants’ Revolt reached London…
the king met with the peasants but did not carry out the peasants’ demands.
The first decades of the Hundred Years’ War was marked by…
numerous English victories over the French.
The Battle of Crecy was significant during the Hundred Years’ War because…
the English longbow showed the power of peasant forces against mounted knights.
Joan of Arc was significant during the Hundred Years War because she…
rallied the French to victory at the siege of Orleans.
During the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century, the papacy…
lost some of its control over the Papal States.
The Great Schism ended in 1415 when
a church Council forced popes to resign and elected a new pope.
By the end of the Hundred Years War governments were faced with…
the need to raise a great amount of money to supply larger armies than before.
The development of gunpowder weapons in late medieval Europe affected military strategy in that…
mounted knights were no longer as useful on the battlefield as they had been.
