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Question 1

Why has Christianity been so popular throughout the years?

Answer 1

• easy acsess to prayer
• loving and forgiving God
• promise of heaven
• people are equal in the eyes of God

Question 2

Political relationship between the Roman Empire and Christianity

Answer 2

• Jesus was Jewish according to outer reaches of Roman Empire
• Some roman empires saw Christianity as a threat.
• 313, emperor constantine legalized Christianity with Edict of Milan
• 380, Emperor Theodosius required Christianity in the Roman Empire

Question 3

Medieval Ages

Answer 3

476 CE, fall of rome/western empire
to
1453, fall of Constantinople/Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire.

Question 4

fought prayed worked

Answer 4

fought: knights, 2%
prayed: catholic church workers, monks, nuns, 10%
worked: peasants 80%

Question 5

Labor system of serfdom

Answer 5

serfs has to work on land for their lord in exchange for food, shelter, military protection. black plague ended it, system lasted til 1800 in eastern europe/russia

Question 6

social system of feudalism in medieval europe

Answer 6

monarch owns all land
lords and nobility oversees land in exchange for providing military service
serfs live on nobles land in exchange for bare minimums

Question 7

European knights code of chivalry

Answer 7

practice Christianity, protect women and weak, act like gentlemen. ideals but corruption

Question 8

picked on in the Medieval?

Answer 8

Jews, witches, heretics, lepers

Question 9

why did europeans target jewish for 2,000 years?

Answer 9

• minority
• traitors who didn’t accept Jesus as son of God
• scapegoats
• greedy
• false rumors

Question 10

Catholic church powerful why?

Answer 10

• Tithe, 10% religous tax
• donations for forgiveness or gift
• payements to monks or nuns for prayer