What are two other names for the Middle Ages?
When were the Middle Ages?
What name was given to the Eastern Empire after the West fell?
What division was made to the Church in 1054 AD?
What two major disasters for the Europeans occurred during this period?
What does the word Crusade mean?
Why were the Crusades fought?
When were the Crusades fought? For how long?
How many main battles did the Europeans win? Who fought in it?
Which Pope gave a public speech urging Europeans to fight in the Crusades?
What is feudalism?
Give two pros and two cons of the feudal system
What were the 5 classes in the European feudal system?
What threat brought on the need for the feudal system?
Why did the feudal system end?
What is another name for the Black Death?
What brought the plague to Europe?
Where did the plague originate?
What percentage of Europe's population was lost during the plague?
How was the plague transmitted?
What does the word Renaissance mean?
Where did the Renaissance begin?
When did the European Renaissance occur?
Name King Henry VII's two surviving children
How did the invention of the printing press affect the Catholic Church?
Dark Ages and Medieval Times
476 AD - 1500s AD
Byzantine
Catholic and Eastern or Greek Orthodox
Crusades losses and the Black Death
Holy War
Muslims and Christians fought for control of Jerusalem
1097. 200 years.
One - the Nobles won
Pope Urban II
A system of governing where land is traded for power
Answers will vary
King, Nobles, Knights, Peasants, Serfs
Western Europe feared Germanic tribe invasions
Major population loss after Crusades
Bubonic Plague
Trade during and after the Crusades
Mongolia
1/3 to 1/2
From fleas who feasted on the blood of rodents carrying plague
Rebirth
Italy
1400s - 1500s AD
Mary and Elizabeth
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