VOCAB UNIT 2

Question 1

Christendom

Answer 1

Christs kingdom on earth

Question 2

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 2

Developed by Charlemagne

Question 3

Qur’an

Answer 3

Central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God.

Question 4

Penance

Answer 4

Voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong.

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

Political-a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return

Question 6

Manorialism

Answer 6

Economic- Built around large estates called manors which included a village and the land surrounding it which serfs worked and lived

Question 7

Islam

Answer 7

Submission to God

Question 8

Excommunication

Answer 8

The action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.

Question 9

Crusades

Answer 9

Series of wars fought under the flag of the church
10th century (1st crusade)
12th century (9th crusade)

Question 10

Scholasticism

Answer 10

Teaching methods which involve authority and tradition

Question 11

Babylonian Captivity

Answer 11

The forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah

Question 12

Hundred Years War

Answer 12

Series of conflicts between kings of England and France

Question 13

Joan of Arc

Answer 13

Peasant girl who has a mystical vision to talk to the leader of France –> French win war and kill her for witchcraft

Question 14

Fall of Consantinople

Answer 14

The Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.

Question 15

Petrarch

Answer 15

-Father of humanism who was a poet and scholar that wrote in Italian and latin
-Ad Fontes

Question 16

Michelangelo

Answer 16

-Was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
-Born in the Republic of Florence

Question 17

Doctrine of Discovery

Answer 17

Any land not inhabited by christians was available to be discovered/claimed

Question 18

Peasants War

Answer 18

Caused by the rise of the protestant religion

Question 19

Menno Simmons

Answer 19

2nd generation reformer, he worked to reform the Anabaptist movement to bring back its focus on pacifism

Question 20

Act of Supremacy

Answer 20

Was an act to create the catholic church without a pope

Question 21

Puritans

Answer 21

Those who did not follow the Elizabethan Compromise