Middle Ages Flashcards
What is the boundary between Europe and Asia?
Ural Mountains
When were the Dark Ages?
The time period in between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages
Who ruled the Kingdom of the Franks?
King Clovis
What did Charlemagne do?
Conquer and unify most of Europe
Who crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman emperor?
Pope Leo III
What event led up to the Great Schism?
Pope Leo IX excommunicating the bishop
When was the Great Schism?
1054
Who was the Battle of Hastings between and what was it over?
William the Conqueror and King Harold over the throne of England.
What marks the start of feudalism?
William awards his loyal knights land
When does Pope Gregory VII come to power?
1073
Who does Pope Gregory VII famously try to excommunicate?
King Henry IV
Who starts the Crusades?
Pope Urban II
When is the Magna Carta signed and what does it do?
Limits the monarch’s power, signed in 1215
Who caused the Magna Carta to have to be made?
King John and his cruel ways of needlessly imprisoning and taking from people
Who ordered the Albigensian Crusade?
Pope Innocent III
About how many people died from the plague?
25 million
What is Miasma?
The idea that people got sick from “bad air”
What were the effect of the plague?
Economy declining, prices going down, wages increasing, people loosing faith in God because of what had happened to them
Where did the plague begin?
The Gobi desert, then traveled along the Silk Road
What caused the plague?
fLeAs oN rAts
What is the difference between the bubonic plague and septicemic plague?
Bubonic : boils
Septicemic : skin turns black, more fatal
What happened between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV?
Henry tried to remove Gregory but begged for forgiveness when he was threatened to be excommunicated.
Define Habeas Corpus.
A king must have a reason to put someone in jail and they must be charged by the jury.
What is heresey?
Belief opposing the Church
