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Medival Europe And The Byzantines Flashcards

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Following the breakdown of the Roman Empire, what did Western Europe enter?

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A period of chaos known as the middle ages or the medieval period

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What are the first 500 years of the medieval period known as

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The early middle ages

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What was the early middle ages known as?

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The dark ages

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what are the years 1000 to 1450 called

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The high middle ages

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Why were the high middle ages important

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In this later. European learning and trade began to flourish once again.

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6
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What philosophy did Peter Abelard study?

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Philosophy and the logic of Aristotle

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Who was Peter Abelard?

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A monk and a theologian

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Where did the franks establish an early capital?

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Paris

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Who was the first Roman Catholic ruler of the franks and what did he do?

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King Clovis and he became the first monarch to unite all the Francis tribes

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How was government under king Clovis

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It was unstable

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Who is Charles Martel and what did he do?

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A military leader of the franks who led them to defeat the Muslims at the battle of tours

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What did the defeat of the Muslims at the battle of Tours do?

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Stop the expansion of Muslim forces into northern Europe

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Who founded the Carolingian dynasty

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Charles Martel

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Who is Pepin and how did he get power?

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He was the son of Charles Martin and got the pope to declare his right to the throne, which increases legitimacy over rivals

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After Pepin, who was named emperor of the Frankish kingdom

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Charlemagne

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What did Charlemagne do

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Defeated the Saxons and converted them to Christianity, encourage church based education, and use regional administrators to help govern his empire

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What were similarities between the Carolingian dynasty and the tang dynasty?

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Used religion to legitimize their rule, placed a high value on education, and attempted to control the nobles through regional administrators

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18
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Over some differences between the tang dynasty and the Carolingian dynasty

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The caroling dynasty split into two, which led to intensification of feudalism and local power. The tang dynasty was under a strong central government and the period of great prosperity.

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What is papacy

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The office or authority of the pope

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20
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What were Scandinavian Vikings also known as?

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Norsemen

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21
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What were long ships?

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Ships that allow sailors to travel far inland on rivers as well as conduct coastal raids on seas

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What religion did Magyars assimilate into?

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Christianity

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23
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What are fiefs

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When kings paid Nobles with land

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24
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What were landowners called?

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Lords

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What did Lord’s promise and what were they to the kings?

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Promised to fight for the king and they were the vassals of the king

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What is a vassal

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People who own service to another person

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27
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What is feudalism?

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When Kings paid nobles with land in return of fighting for the empire/land as a hole

28
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What is the code of chivalry do

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A way to resolve disputes and to show etiquette

29
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What is a manor

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Large fiefs

30
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What are the manorial system provide?

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Economic self-sufficiency, and defense

31
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What were peasants called?

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Serfs

32
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What was the three field system?

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Crops were rotated in and out of three fields

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One field

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Was planted to wheat crop stop provided food

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Second field

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Planted plants which made the soil more fertile

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Third field

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Unused each year

36
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Third field

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Unused each year

37
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What did stirrups do?

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Distributed the writers weight more evenly over the horses back which helped the writer to be more secure

38
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What was the language that almost everyone understood

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Latin and German

39
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What is a dialect?

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Regional way of speaking

40
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What were squires

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People who serve the nights

41
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What was the great schism?

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The division of the Christian church

42
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What were the two branches the Christian church split into?

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The Roman Catholic and the eastern orthodox

43
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What did most manors have

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A small church and a priest

44
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What are the donation of Constantine do?

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Provided the church with evidence that the pope should assume all power

45
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What did Pope Clement the five do?

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He refused to relocate to Rome and establish instead of Papacy in France

46
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What was the relocation of the papacy in France known as?

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Babylonian captivity

47
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What did the Cluniac reforms do?

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Attempted to reform the church from within

48
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Who crowned Charlemagne

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Pope Leo lll

49
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What was the canon law?

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The law of the church, if you broke the cannon law, two of the most harsh Were excommunication and an interdict

50
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Who banned the law by Lay investiture

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Pope Gregory the seventh

51
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What was the lay investiture

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A ceremony in which the church was appointed by kings or Nobles

52
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When was the problem solved?

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The Concord of worms in 1122

53
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What is an eastern half of the Roman Empire become known as?

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The Byzantine Empire

54
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What did Justinian want to do?

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Restore the Roman Empire

55
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What is Justinian’s codes?

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The code were revision of the best Roman laws

56
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What city did Justinian rebuild?

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Antioch

57
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What was Hagia Sophia

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Largest cathedral built by Justinian

58
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What was Hagia Sophia know as

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The church of holy wisdom

59
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What did Catholic mean?

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Universal

60
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What happened in 1453

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The Byzantine empire was conquered by the Islamic Ottoman Turks

61
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Who is Constantine renamed as?

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Istanbul

62
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What happened in 1095

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Pope Irvin, the second requested a volunteer army to take Jerusalem in Palestine from the Arab empire

63
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What were two common characteristics that increased the power of the monarchy?

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Aging bureaucracy and an organized army

64
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What did King Hugh Capet do

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Charlemagne’s empire was called the kingdom of the French, however, Capet didn’t hold much power

65
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Who developed the first Rio bureaucracy

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Philip ll

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