Western Europe & the Middle Ages: Part 3

Question 1

late middle ages

Answer 1

• five major developments, along with crusades, get western Europe out of dark ages
• hundred years war
• papal schism
• fall of Byzantine empire
• famines
• black death and crusades
• contact with eastern world
• greater riff between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church

Question 2

hundred years war

Answer 2

• French and British
• massively destructive
• developments in weaponry and tactics, gun power and heavy artillery

Question 3

papal schism

Answer 3

• 3 popes
• loss of respectability of church due to political involvements
• change in thinking towards church

Question 4

fall of Byzantine empire

Answer 4

• Seljuk Turks attacked

Question 5

famine

Answer 5

• climate became colder and rainier
• harvests shrank
• population doubled
• move back to towns

Question 6

black death

Answer 6

• bubonic plague
• killed a third to half of Europe’s population
• church wasn’t providing answers
• starts a shit in thinking towards church and life itself

Question 7

crusades

Answer 7

• 9 “holy” wars
• launched by European Christians to recapture holy land from Muslims
• chance to spread Christianity
• lasted several centuries
• participants were knights, peasants, kings, lords, etc.
• participants received indulgences, could make a name for themselves
• recapture Jerusalem
• little to no results/impact
• first crusade got Jerusalem but lost it again
• anti Semitism