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World History – Ch. 4 Exam – Study Guide
Please find the 5 W’s (who, what, where, when, WHY is it significant) for the following terms
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Inventions that improved Farming during
Middle Ages
Flying Buttress
Trade between Flanders & Italy
The Plague & its effect on serfs gaining freedom
Olmec Civilization & its decline
The Inca & their systems of writing
Gothic Architecture
The Great Schism
The Hundred Years’ War
The Black Death
How did the Counts of Champagne encourage
trade between Flanders & Italy?
Oxcart
Carruca
Cabochon
Difference between Serf & Peasant
Francis of Assisi
Vernacular
Burghers or Bourgeoisie
Journeymen
Hildegard of Bingen’s work, why is it so
remarkable?
The Inquisition (who did it, why, what methods
did they use)
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Effects of the Black Death on Europe
How did Black Death Spread?
Where were Italian merchants coming from
when they brought the plague to Sicily?
What portion of Europeans were Serfs by 800?
Rulers of Maya City-States & God (how were
they connected)
Aztec Religion based on struggle between
who/what?
The Inca
The Toltec
The Olmec
The Aztec
The Maya
Writing forms for each MesoAmerican
Civilization
First MesoAmerican Civilization?
Which language was taught to the people
conquered by the Inca?
The Aztec Capital City
Lake Texcoco
Cuzco of the Inca
Canals in MesoAmerican Society
Machu Pichu
Tenochtitlan
Questions from Previous Exam (I hope you keep a good notebook)
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Impact of Muslim World on European society
Samurai & Bushido
The Magna Carta
The system of Feudalism, Serfdom & Vassalage (what is the heart of feudalism)
Charles The Great (Charlemagne)
Possible Essay Questions:
1. Describe some of the social and economic impacts that the Black Death left on Europe after it ended.
2. Compare and contrast the social structures found in the Maya and Aztec Civilizations.
3. Describe the three factors that led to the decline of the Papacy (power of the church) during the Late Middle
Ages.