Medieval Times Flashcards
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Medieval Time
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500 to 1000 AD
2
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Medieval is Latin for what?
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middle ages
3
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Struggle for Europeans to survive (4)
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- trade is disrupted by Arates and robbers
- money is scarce
- cities are abandoned to find food in the country
- population is overwhelmingly rural
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Decline in learning (4)
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- invaders couldn’t read or write
- time spent surviving not learning
- loss of common language
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Work of monasteries (7)
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- religious community
- monks devoted lives to God
- Benedict wrote a book of laws for monks
- Scholastica was Benedict’s sister and she helped nuns
- should’ve been the best educated in middle ages
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What were the 3 laws expected of monks in Benedict’s book?
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- expected to know how to read
- expected to know how to write
- expected to know how to copy sacred documents
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Reality of monks (4)
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- dimwitted
- weaklings who could not serve as knights
- misfits
- peasant children who were born into large families
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What were 4 changes?
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- Christianity changes through the work of monks
- Christianity expends through the power of Pope Gregory
- Changes in architecture
- Changes in technology
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Christianity changes through the work of monks (2)
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- Abbots were the head of the monastery
- most orderly and organized places in Europe
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Christianity expends through the power of Pope Gregory (6)
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- Famous Gregorian chant
- papacy becomes secular
- worldly involved in politics
- pope’s palace becomes the center of government
- church uses money
- created the idea of a churchly kingdom
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What were the three ways the church used money?
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- to raise armies
- to help the poor
- to repair the roads
12
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Feudalism
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a political system based on the holding of land
13
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Why was feudalism necessary? (2)
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- provided decentralized defense in army
2. no centralized government
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What did Feudalism do?
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Preserved a minimum amount of political unity
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What is involved in Feudalism? (2)
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- investiture: symbolic act of presenting land to a vassal, giving the vassal control of the land
- two men agree to a contract, one giving land and control of it in return for work or military service