Social Studies Middle Ages Flashcards

Social studies.  chapter 11-13.  middle ages.

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5. What were the three "well-defined" classes of feudalism?
-those who fought (the nobles and the knights)-those who prayed (the Church)-those who worked (the peasants and the serfs)
9. What are the 3 reasons the Church was important during the Middle Ages?
1. Attempted to heal the divisions caused by feudalism2. Provided stability in a world of disease and bloodshed3. Provided a meeting place or social center
10. What were sacraments? Know three examples.
Sacraments are religious ceremonies. Exmaples: Baptism, Confirmation, Matrimony (Marriage), and Eucharist (Communion)
34. What event marked the end of the Middle Ages?
The end of the hundred years' war
33. Why is lay investiture such a bad idea?
Because people will be loyal to the king, not the church; the people appointed were not even believers and sometimes they were just incompitent
27. What was the central cause of the Hundred Years' War?
The right to the French throne
26. Who was mostly responsible for the spread of the Bubonic Plague?
Traders
15. What is lay investiture?What is simony?Why are they bad ideas?
Lay investiture is when the king and high-ranking nobles appoint church officials. Simony is when bishops sell Church positions. They are bad ideas because you can't mix church and gov.
14. The Holy Roman Empire is located on modern day _____?
Germany
13. What was the origin of the Holy Roman Empire? What was it before them?
*Holy because the pope blessed it...*Roman because of their Roman ancestors...*Empire because that's what they wanted to be!
the Roman Empire of the German Nation
12. What were excommunication and interdict? Why were they worse for kings?
Excommunication= banished from the Church and denied salvation. If you still misbehaved you faced...Interdict= sacraments and religious services could not be performed in your landKings would be killed or overthrown
16. Why did Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV fight? What happened to end their fight?
G7 bans lay investiture, H4 demands G7 step down as pope and G7 says "I don't think so."Henry stands barefooted in the snow for 3 days and Greg decides he has suffered enough and forgives him after Henry kisses his toe
19. What happened at each of the three Church Councils (Clermont, Pisa, Constance)?
A new Pope was appointed
20. What were the three problems Church reformers of the 1000 focused on?
1. married priests2. simony3. lay investiture
22. a) What was the cause of the Great Schism?b) How was it resolved?c) How many popes were there at the height of it?d) What does "schism mean?
a) disputes over who was pope and his authorityb) Martin V was appointed as the only popc) threed) split