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Middle Ages Pre Semester Flashcards

1
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What was Europe like in the 1300s?

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Famines and harvests were bad

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2
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Epizootics

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Epidemic diseases among animals

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3
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How many starved?

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Tens of thousands

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4
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How many died from epidemic illnesses?

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Tens of thousands

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5
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Ratio of dead from 1315-1316

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1 in 10

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6
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What about the wealthy aristocracy?

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Continued to live in luxury

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7
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Why was the Grain price high?

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The demand extended the supply

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8
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When did the Black Plague strike?

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1347

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9
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What is the bubonic plague?

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Bacteria in fleas cause lymph nodes

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10
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What is the Pneumonic Plague

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Causes issues to lungs

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11
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Where did the plague begin?

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Mongolia

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12
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What percent of English and Northeastern France died?

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40 &60

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13
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What lands did the Mongol armies conquer?

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China, Northern India, and Russ

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14
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What are the roots of the 100 year wars?

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  1. English kings’ continuing claim to territories in Franch
  2. English support for the Flemish rebillion
  3. English and French both claimed to French heir
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15
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Where did the war take place?

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France

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16
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English King Edward III

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Claimed French throne

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17
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French King Philip Valois (Philip IV)

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Claimed French throne

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18
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French Capetian King Charles IV

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Died on throne without a heir

19
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Which cities survived?

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Milan and Nuremberg

20
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Flagellants

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Followed the Christian Hermits, in self-mutilating and self-beating sects

21
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Dominican Priest Master Eckart

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Do not need the church

22
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Thomas Kempis

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Wrote Imitation of Christ- could achieve salvation by reading the bible

23
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English Theologian John Wyclif

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Predestiantion, all we could do was live well, church was unneccassary

24
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Lollards/ Lollard movement

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Followers of John Wyclif, punishable by death, rebelled in 1414, faded after 1414 and merged with Puritan movement

25
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Pope Boniface VII

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died in 1303, captured by French army

26
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Babylonian Captivity

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Captivity of Hebrews in Babylon

27
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Pope Gregory XI

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died in 1388

28
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Italian Bishop Urban VI

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1388 College of Cardinals named him pope,month later changed decision but he refused to step down, named new college of cardinals, ruled from Rome

29
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French Bishop Clement VII

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Appointed after Urban VI, ruled from Avignon

30
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Great Schism

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bishops in europe declared loyalty to two different popes

31
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What did England grow?

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Raising sheep for wool, and growing flax

32
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What did Northern Europe grow?

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Dairy Production

33
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What did Germany grow?

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Rye (grain)

34
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What did France grow?

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Grapes for Wine

35
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Hanseatic League

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Baltic Sea Port, and port cities of Northern German (lead countries of commerce), dominated European trade in grain, furs, amber, and other

36
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What did the Italian cities dominate in?

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Spices and in textiles (silks, woolens)

37
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Jan Hus

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Translated Bible into Czech, encouraged people to read on own, take bread and wine, in 1415 was invited to speak at the Council of Constance, instead arrested and burned him at the stake

38
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Hussites/ Hussites Rebellion

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Jan Hus’s followers, rebelled agaisnt church and the Roman Emperor, reach concord in 1434- recognize authority and drink wine

39
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Taborites

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Miltary army of the Hussites, destroyed emporers knights

40
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Pope Martin V

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Recognized as new Roman pope, end of Great Schism

41
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Conciliarist Controversy

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The debate over whether the pope or the council of prelates exercised sovereignty over the church

42
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French King Charles VII

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1429, gave army to peasant girl

43
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Joan of Arc

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Peasant girl who heard God, won series of battles against English, burned at the stake

44
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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Wrote Decameron around 1350

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