Middle Ages Study Guide
Middle Ages Study Guide
Middle Ages Study Guide
World History
~Unit 3: The Middle Ages~
Term s/Events
Barbarians -Visigoths -Celts/Picts -Franks The Dark Ages The Byzantines The Slavs Kiev/Rus Battle of Tours Feudalism -Fief -Knight Monasticism -Monastery -Friar -Nun
Definition
-Vassal -Lord/Lady
-Franciscans The Battle of Tours The Saracens Inquisition Battle of Hastings Magna Carta Holy Roman Empire Estates General The Crusades -First -Others Seljuk Turks The Fall of Constantinople Banking/Money Economy Guilds Troubadours
-Jesuits
-Second -Effects
100 Years War Ferdinand and Isabella The Babylonian Captivity/Avignon Papacy The Great Schism Inquisition Humanism The Bubonic Plague/The Black Death The Renaissance: Reasons
Greece: People
Charles Martel St. Jerome Gregory VII Thomas Becket Pepin the Short St. Benedict Francis of Assisi Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine Dante Alighieri Clement V Machiavelli Lorenzo Medici Leonardo da Vinci Leo X Elizabeth I
Urban II Geoffrey Chaucer John Wycliff King Arthur Michelangelo Gutenberg Henry V Otto the Great
Saladin Joan of Arc Jan Huss Cosimo Medici Filippo Brunelleschi Martin Luther John Calvin Columbus
Essential Questions
1) Why is the period from 500-800AD referred to as the Dark Ages? 2) Where does the legend of King Arthur come from? 3) What important roles did the Franks play in Western History? 4) Charlemagne did three important things that forever changed Europe, what were they? 5) Explain the development and components of castles in Medieval Europe. 6) Explain the development and components of knights in Medieval Europe. 7) Explain the development and components of cathedrals in Medieval Europe. 8) Understand how the Catholic Church was organized. 9) How did monasticism develop? 10) Why did the Church split into two groups? 11) Who were the Vikings and what was their overall effect on Europe? 12) How did the people of medieval Europe begin to have a say in government affairs? 13) Explain the difficulties Europe had between Church and State? 14) What were the positive and negative results of the crusades? 15) Explain what the plague was, how it spread, and what its overall effect was on Europe.
16) Explain the roles and Mongols and Humanists played in causing the Renaissance. 17) What was the cause of the 100 Years War? 18) What were some positive results of the 100 Years War? 19) What was the effect of the Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism on Europeans? 20) Why did the Renaissance start in Italy? 21) What impact did the Medici Family have on causing the Renaissance? 22) In what ways did Filippo Brunelleschi embody the ideals of the Renaissance? 23) In what ways did Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo embody the ideals of the Renaissance? 24) Explain the cause and affect of the Protestant Reformation. 25) Explain the causes of the renaissance.
Schematics of a Cathedral