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10-Feudal Lords and the Church Dominated Medieval Europe
1. Frankish Rulers Governed Much of Western Europe for Centuries
Define/Identify:
Middle Ages
Pepin the Short
Charlemagne
medieval
Louis the Pious
Franks
Magyars
Clovis
Vikings
Merovingians
Charles Martel
Locate (be able to locate these places on a map of Europe):
Papal States
Aix-la-Chapelle
Normandy
1. What were the accomplishments of Clovis?
2. What were the accomplishments of Charles Martel?
3. How did Pepin the Short become king of the Franks?
4. What precedent did the crowning of Pepin establish?
5. How did Charlemagne change government and education in his empire?
6. Give two reasons for the breakup of Charlemagne’s empire.
2. Medieval Life Was Based on Feudalism and the Manorial System
Define/Identify:
feudalism
fief
vassal
primogeniture
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manor
serf
domain
chivalry
1. What was feudalism and why did it develop?
2. What were the obligations of vassals and lords under the feudal relationship?
3. Explain the three methods of trail under feudal justice.
4. Describe the ways in which land on a manor was divided and used.
5. Under the rules of chivalry, w hat were the steps leading to knighthood?
3. The Church Had Many Roles in the Middle Ages
Define/Identify:
sacrament
simony
monasticism
Inquisition
abbot
curia
canon law
cardinals
interdict
St. Francis of Assisi
tithe
St. Dominic
1. Name the position in the church hierarchy and briefly describe the duties of each position.
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2. In what three ways did the medieval church resemble a state?
3. How did the church contribute to medieval life?
4. What four major problems faced the church during the Middle Ages? And, how do you think each problem hurt the power and
status of the church?
5. How did the church become part of the feudal system in Europe?
6. In what ways was the church independent of the feudal system?
4. Kings and Nobles Struggled for Power in England and France
Define/Identify:
shire
William the Conqueror
Magna Carta
Henry II
common law
Thomas á Becket
Anglo-Saxons
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Alfred the Great
Simon de Montfort
Edward the Confessor
Hugh Capet
Normans
Locate (Be able to locate these places on a map of Europe):
Hastings
Canterbury
Ile-de-France
Aquitaine
Gascony
1. Name four of the main provisions of the Magna Carta.
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2. Why was the Magna Carta important?
3. How did Parliament form in England?
4. How did common law form in England?
5. W hat problems did the Capetian kings of France face?
6. What advantage did the kings have?
7. Explain how the strong Capetian kings added to their power.
11-Trade Revived and Nations Developed in Europe
1. The Crusades Changed the Lives of the People of Europe
Define/Identify:
Louis VII
Crusade
Conrad III
Urban II
Saladin
Locate (Be able to locate these places on map):
County of Edessa
Principality of Antioch
County of Tripoli
Kingdom of Jerusalem
1. Why did people join the Crusades?
2. The Crusades are sometimes called “successful failures.” What is meant by this description?
3. Do you agree or disagree with this description? Why or why not?
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2. Trade Increased in Europe
Define/Indentify:
domestic system:
usury:
capital:
barter economy:
market economy:
Locate (Be able to locate these on a map of Europe):
English Channel
Flanders
Ghent
Bruges
Hamburg
Lübeck
Bremen
1. What caused trade to decline during the early Middle Ages?
2. What effect did this have on western Europe?
3. Why were fairs important in medieval society?
4. What is capital?
5. How was capital invested in medieval Europe?
3. The Growth of Town Brought Great Social and Political Changes
Define/Identify:
merchant guild
apprentice
craft guild
journeyman
1. Why are towns and cities essential to trade?
2. How did townspeople gain the rights of self-government?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
3. What were the most important of these rights?
4. What were the differences between merchant guilds and craft guilds?
5. What caused the growth of towns?
6. How did this growth contribute to the decline in the number of serfs?
7. How did the Black Death affect these towns?
4. The Culture of the Middle Ages Flourished in Towns and Cities
Define/Identify:
vernacular language
Dante
troubadours
Chaucer
miracle play
Abelard
scholasticism
Aquinas
1. How did the fabliaux differ from the epics?
2. How did the church teach the Bible’s stories to those who could not read?
3. What was the organizational structure of medieval universities?
4. What were some of the differences between the Romanesque and Gothic styles of architecture?
5. The Temporal Power of the Church Was Challenged
Define/Identify:
Bonifce VIII
Babylonian Captivity
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
John Wycliffe
Great Schism
John Huss
Locate (Be able to locate this city on a map of Europe):
Avignon
1. What caused the decline of the church’s temporal power after the reign of Innocent III?
2. Describe the dispute between Boniface VIII and Philip IV.
3. What were the Babylonian Captivity and the great Schism?
4. Why did they weaken the church?
5. Explain the importance of the ideas of Defender of the Peace.
6. How were these ideas further developed by both Wycliffe and Huss?
12-Civilization in East Asia Reached New Heights
1. China Flourished Under a Restored Empire
Define/Identify:
Li Bai
Zen
Du Fu
Diamond Sutra
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of China):
Grand Canal
Chang’an
Kaifeng
Beijing
Hangzhou
1. List the names of the four dynasties established in China from 589 to the 1200s.
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
2. How did a person qualify for the civil service exams?
3. How were the exams administered?
4. Describe the invention and development of the printing press.
5. What were two important changes in the lives of Chinese peasants that took place during the Tang and Song dynasties?
2. Central Asian Nomads Invaded China and the West
Define/Identify:
Batu
Genghis Khan
Golden Horde
Kublai Khan
Rabban Bar Sauma
Locate (on a map of the world):
Karakorum
Indochina
1. How were the Mongols able to conquer so much land in Asia so quickly?
2. Why did the Chinese despise the Mongols?
3. What were some of the good features of Mongol rule?
4. How did Kublai Khan improve communications in China?
5. How were the countries of Indochina able to maintain their own identities?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
3. Japan Developed Its Own Government, Society, and Culture
Define/Identify:
daimyo
shogun
Shinto
samurai
The Tale of Genji
Bushido
Ashikaga
seppuku
Sejong
Locate (on a map of Asia):
Kyoto
Kamakura
Korea
1. Compare the favorable and unfavorable features of Japanese geography.
2. What were China’s major contributions to and influences on Japan?
3. Name the two centers of power in Japanese feudalism.
4. How did they complement each other?
5. Hoe did they conflict with each other?
6. How did Zen Buddhism influence Japanese culture?
7. What effect did years of Chinese domination have on Korean culture?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
13-Africa and the Americas Produced Complex Civilizations
1. Many Methods Uncovered Africa’s Early History
Define/Identify:
tropical rain forest
linguist
jungle
oral tradition
savanna
matrilineal
Locate (On a map of Africa):
Niger River
Zaire River (Congo)
Zambezi River
Sahara
Kalahari Desert
1. What geographic factors made contact difficult among peoples in Africa’s interior?
2. How did geography of Africa influence patterns of settlement?
3. What nonwritten evidence identifies early African developments?
4. What conclusions have scholars reached about patterns of life in early Africa?
2. City-states and Kingdoms Arose Throughout Africa
Define/Identify:
Mansa Musa
Sunni Ali
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of Africa):
Kerma
Kilwa
Napata
Lake Chad
Meröe
Ghana
Mali
Tombouctou
Songhai
Gao
1. What metals were mined in the ancient kingdoms of Africa?
2. What factors helped make East Africa a center for trade?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
3. Give evidence to support the idea that Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were powerful, wealthy kingdoms.
4. What role did trade play in their development?
3. People Migrated from Asia to the Americas
Define/Identify:
Pueblo people
adobe
Plains people
tepee
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of the Western Hemisphere):
Rocky Mountains
Andes Mountains
1. What may have motivated early people to migrate to the Americas?
2. List the important crops grown in the Americas.
3. What factors limited farmers’ productivity?
4. How did the various cultures of North America differ?
4. Empire Rose and Flourished in Mexico and Peru
Define/Identify:
chinampa
Toltecs
quipu
Quetzalcoatl
Olmecs
Aztecs
Chavin
Incas
Maya
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of the Western Hemisphere):
Tula
Chichén Itzá
Yucatán Peninsula
Tenochtitlán
Cuzco
1. What factors contributed to the growth of large populations in Mexico and Peru?
2. How did the Incas prevent famines?
3. How were the civilizations of the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas similar?
4. How were they different?
14-The Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution Changed Europe
1. Renaissance Writers and Artists Created Outstanding Works
Define/Identify:
Renaissance
Michelangelo
humanist
Johann Gutenberg
perspective
Desiderius Erasmus
utopia
Thomas More
Francesco Petrarch
William Shakespeare
Niccolò Machiavelli
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Leonardo da Vinci
Hans Holbein the Younger
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of Europe):
Florence (Firenze)
Milan (Milano)
Venice (Venezia)
Flanders
1. Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
2. Why did humanism spread northward?
3. What was the most notable characteristic of Renaissance painting?
4. How was it achieved?
2. The Protestant Reformation Changed Religious Attitudes
Define/Identify:
Reformation
Johann Tetzel
Martin Luther
indulgence
Charles V
95 theses
Henry VIII
sect
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of Europe):
Wittenberg
1. What specific issue started the Reformation?
2. What was the religious compromise of the Peace of Augsburg?
3. What were the main differences between Luther’s ideas and those of the Roman Catholic church?
4. Why did Henry VIII break away from the Roman Catholic church?
3. The Roman Catholic Church Met New Challenges
Define/Identify:
Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation)
predestination
Huldrych Zwingli
theocracy
John Calvin
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
Pope Paul II
Ignatius of Loyola
Locate (Be able to locate on a map of Europe):
Zurich
Geneva
1. What were the main ideas of John Calvin?
2. Why did Calvinism spread so rapidly throughout Europe?
3. Why was the Council of Trent summoned?
4. What actions did the Council of Trent take?
5. Do you think it (the Council of Trent) was successful?
6. What role did the Jesuits play in the Counter-Reformation?
4. Popular Culture Took New Forms and Influenced Daily Life
Define/Identify:
standard of living
broadside
inflation
almanac
”rough music”
1. Why were almanacs such popular books for country people?
2. Why did the standard of living for many peasants decline after 1550?
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Name: ____________________________________________________Date due: ___________________________ Period: _______
3. Why did traditional culture decline?
5. The Scientific Revolution Swept Europe
Define/Identify:
Scientific Revolution
Wiliam Harvey
scientific method
Isaac Newton
geocentric theory
Joseph Priestley
heliocentric theory
Antoine Lavoisier
Nicolaus Copernicus
Rene Decartes
Johannes Kepler
Francis Bacon
Galileo
Blaise Pascal
Andreas Vesalius
Isaac Newton
1. How did Descartes and Bacon adapt the ideas of science to their writings?
2. What were Newton’s scientific contributions?
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