Question | Answer |
Clovis I | Merovingian King Louis, major Germanic Catholic king |
Charles Martel | defeated Muslim invasion in Tours |
noble | territorial princes, lords great estates |
vassal | military retainers between nobles and peasants knights owning a fief=being a vassal |
fief | an estate held on conditional terms swear loyalty to lord |
feudalism | relationship of landholding to service |
chivalry | knights code of conduct |
troubadours | sang about brave knights and devotion to love |
sacraments | sacred rites of the church |
papal supremacy | authority over all secular rulers including kings and emperors |
canon law | church's own body of laws |
interdict | an order excluding an entire town, region, or kingdom from receiving most sacraments and christian burials |
William the Conqueror | Doomsday Book first census |
Henry II | accepted customs=law early jury |
common law | a legal system based on customs and court rulings |
John I | cruel signed Magna Carta |
Magna Carta | limited kings power nobles had certain powers monarch must obey law |
Great Council/ Parliament | House of Lords and House of Commons Unified England limited monarchs power |
Hugh Capet | made throne hereditary |
Philip Augustus | quadrupled royal landholdings paid middle class officials to fill government positions |
Otto I | first crowned emperor |
lay investiture | emperor/lay person appointed bishops |
Concordat of Worms | church could invest bishops with spiritual power emperor invested them with fiefs |
Frederick Barbarossa "Red Beard" | fought for Italy Son henry married heiress to sicily and southern italy, increasing his empire |
crusades | christians v muslims over control of holy land #1= most successful #4= christians attack themselves in constaninople |
Holy land | Jerusalem and other places in palestine where christians believed jesus lived and preached |
Pope Urban II | helped alexius I fight muslim turks incited bishops and nobles to action |
Marco Polo | venitian went to china and brought back stories |
Reconquista | reconquest Christians driving muslims out of spain |
Ferdinand and Isabella | spanish monarchs armada spanish inquisition |
scholasticism | using reason to support christian beliefs |
Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica faith and reason in harmony |
Vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
Dante Alighieri | divine comedy hell, purgatory and heaven summarizes christian beliefs |
Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales described medieval characters |
Gothic style | tall, thin, bright, gargoyles, vaulted ceilings, stained glass, flying buttresses |
flying buttresses | stone supports that stood outside the church |
illumination | Gothic style applied to artistic decoration of books |
Black death | bubonic plague |
epidemic | outbreak of rapid spreading disease |
inflation | rising prices |
schism | split in the church |
longbow | helped english win early fights |
Joan of arc | 17 yr old girl led french to victory |
Genghis Khan | united warring mongol clans |
kublai khan | Yuan empire conquered song emperor |
Zheng he | admiral and diplomat sea trade |
Tang taizong | helped establish tang dynasty |
tributary states | self governing states whose rulers acknowledge the supremacy of another and send them tribute |
land reform | breaking up large agricultural landholdings and redistribute it to peasants strengthen central gov by weakening large landholders increase gov revenues |
dowry | payment a woman brings to a marriage |
steppe | open treeless grassland nomadic highway |
Cyrillic | adapted greek alphabet translate into slavic |
Golden Horde | mongol invaders |
Ivan the great | reunited russia limited nobles absolute power |
Ivan the terrible | tsar centralized royal power defeated Golden horde |
Constantinople | capital of byzantine empire linked europe and asia trading |
Justinian | Justinians code rebuilt constantinople |
Justinian's code | all laws of ancient rome collected, revised, and organized |
Theodora | came from nothing Justinians wife improved womens rights |
Hagia Sophia | rebuilt by justinian reflects islam and christianity |
icons | holy images contributed to catholic/byzantine split set off battles |
Great schism | roman catholic and eastern orthodox splitting |
uji | clans |
yamato clan | first/only dynasty direct descent from sun goddess amaterasu |
shinto | way of kami- superior powers that were natural/divine shrines |
selective borrowing | keeping some traditions and getting rid of or modifying others |
The Tale of Genji | worlds first full length novel Murasaki Shikibu |
samurai | heavily armed and trained bushido-chivalry |
zen | buddhist sect from china |
social mobility | the ability to move up in a social class |
The Thousand and One Nights | collection of stories narrated by fictional princess |
Ibn Rushd/Averroës | put all knowledge except quran to reason |
Muhammad as-razi | treated mind and body |
Delhi | start of muslim rule in india |
Babur | military leader |
Akbar | strong central gov toleration ended tax on non-muslims |
Taj Mahal | tomb |
ottomans | turkish speaking nomadic people |
Suleiman "the Magnificent" | absolute power extended ottoman rule |
janizaries | elite force of ottoman army |
humanism | studied classical culture of greece and rome |
Medici family of florence | patrons of the arts controlled florence |
perspective | made paintings more realistic |
the prince | guide on how to gain and maintain power |
Johann Gutenberg | invented printing press with movable type |
flanders | renaissance spread from here |
jan van eyck | painted townspeople and religious scenes |
albrecht dürer | engraver spread renaissance to the north |
desiderius erasmus | humanist dutch priest bible in vernacular spread renaissance humanism |
sir thomas more | social reformist utopia |
utopian | any ideal society impractical |
françois rebelais | monk physician greek scholar humanist |
indulgences | lessened time a person spent in purgatory |
martin luther | lutheran church 95 theses |
wittenberg | where 95 theses were put up |
charles V | holy roman emperor told luther to give up his ideas |
diet at worms | assembly of german princes |
peace of augsburg | up to prince of area to decide the religion |
john calvin | swiss reformer calvinism predestination |
predestination | god predetermines who is being saved |
theocracy | government run by church leaders |
afonso de albuquerque | burned muslim outposts massacred muslims |
outposts | distant areas under someones control |
dutch east india company | full sovereign powers netherlands |
sovereign | royal supreme power authority |
plantations | large areas of land dedicated to one crop |
affonso I | opposed slave trade |
missionaries | convert people to their religion |
asante kingdom | gold slaves |
osei tutu | military leader meritocracy |
oyo empire | slave traders |
cape town | first permanent european settlement in southern africa |
boers | dutch farmers |
moluccas | spice islands indonesia |
prince henry "henry the navigator" | sponsored exploration |
cartographers | mapmakers |
vasco da gama | helped establish portugal as world power |
chirstopher columbus | "discovered" america |
line of demarcation | divided noneuropean world in 2 between spain and portugal |
treaty of tordesillas | terms of line of demarcation |
ferdinand magellan | credited with circumnavigating the globe even though he died |
henry VIII | founded anglican church divorced beheaded and died, divorced beheaded survived |
act of supremacy | made henry supreme head of church |
council of trent | helped reform catholics |
counter reformation | catholic reformation |
ignatius of loyola/jesuits | soldier who ministered to catholics |
abu bakr | muhammads father in law first caliph reunited tribes |
caliph | successor to muhammad |
umayyad | meccan clan dynasty of sunni caliphs |
abbasid | dynasty discrimination against nonmuslims ended |
baghdad | new capital al-mansur's capital |
new france | canada |
jaques cartier | discovered st lawrence river |
john cabot | found fishies in newfoundland |
pilgirms | english protestants who rejected the church of england |
mayflower compact | guidelines for governing their colony |
french and indian war | war between france and england over the colonies |
treaty of paris 1763 | ended french and indian war |
samuel de champlain | made accurate maps |
company of the hundred associates | private trading comany |
coureurs de bois | fur trappers |
kaaba | abrahams first temple to god |
umma | community of islam |
muhammad | last and greatest prophet |
bedouins | nomadic herder |
hernan cortes | conquistador took over aztecs |
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