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H Western Civ. 7 - 8
Study Guide for Chapter 7 and 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Germanic laws and society's features, and how do they differ from the Romans? | Germanic society had no cities or written laws, and they lived in small communities with unwritten customs, elected kings with tribal councils, and knights swore loyalty. Whereas, Romans had a sophisticated society, cities, and laws. |
| Achievements of Clovis? | Conquered GAUL, ruled according to Frankish customs, but preserved the roman legacy. He then converted to Christianity (Subjects of Gaul's religion) , and gained lots of support from his subjects and the Pope, which was a very big step and very powerful. |
| Achievements of Charles Martel? | He led Christian and Frankish army to victory at The Battle of Tours, preventing the Muslims from taking Christian lands. |
| Achievements of Charlamange? | United western Europe when he built an empire, and spent his 46-year reign fighting conquests which reunited much of the old western Roman empire. |
| What did Pope Leo lll do? | He revived the ideal of a united Christian community by crowning Charlamange king for helping him. This held lots of significance, but outraged the emperor of eastern Roman empire. It deepened the split between eastern and western Christian worlds. |
| System/Structure of Feudalism? | A loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their land holdings among lesser lords. |
| Manor System | In the Manor (lords estate) serfs or peasants worked a self-sustaining system, producing everything they needed on the estate. |
| Vassel | Lesser lord that pledged loyalty to a greater lord |
| Fief | an estate given to a vassel from a powerful lord |
| Knight | a noble that began training in boyhood (7) to have the profession of being a knight. |
| Lord | Man who owned a manor and swore allegiance to the king. |
| What was the world of knights? | Warfare was a way of life, and knights began brutal training at the age of 7 where they underwent beatings when lazy. |
| Feudalism pyramid? | King Lords Knights Serfs/Peasants |
| Why were churches important, and how did they grow? | They shaped the everyday lives of christian Europeans, and it grew from the spreading and conversion of western people of Europe. |
| Role of a Priest? | Administered sacraments, preached, and offered guidance. |
| Explain Benedict rule? | A set of rules to regulate monastic life that consisted of worship, work, and study. |
| What two ways can the church punish you? | Excommunicate you, cant receive sacraments---->hell Interdict, whole area cant receive sacraments---->hell |
| Why did the church reform? | As power grew, discipline became weak and many became greedy. |
| Explain the agricultural revolution? | peasants adopted new farming technology that made their fields more productive. Population grew rapidly. |
| How were trade and travel revived? | There was a growing demand for good, and people felt safer and started traveling. Crusaders also brought back luxury goods that nobles desired. |
| Explain the commercial revolution? | use of money increased, need for capital stimulated banking, and there were new ways of doing business. |
| Explain rise of the middle class? | Old social order changed, and they gained economic and political power, and women dominated trades and guilds. |
| Importance of William the Conqueror? | created an efficient tax collection and Treasury. |
| Doomsday Book? | list of every castle, field, and pigpen in Europe. The census was thorough and inevitable and helped collect taxes. |
| Henry ll | Broadened system of royal justice, created common law and jury, and killed archbishop out of rage, forcing him to ease his attempts to regulate the clergy. |
| King John | Forced to sign magna carta. clever, cruel, and untrustworthy. rejected popes nominee for archbishop, and got excommunicated, and England got interdict. he then accepted England as a fief to save himself and paid yearly tax fees to Rome. |
| King Edward | created model parliament, and set up framework for England's legislature, and representatives of common people. |
| What is lay investure? | when a person not part of the clergy presented bishops with the ring and staff that symbolized their office. Pope Gregory banned this, so only he and popes could appoint and install bishops. |
| 1st Crusade | crusaders achieved their goal of capturing Jerusalem, and capped their victory with a massacre of Jerusalem inhabitants. (their only victory) |
| 2nd Crusade | After dividing their captured land into 4 small states, Jerusalem fell to Muslims. |
| 3rd crusade | Europeans failed to take back Jerusalem, and negotiation led to the the reopen of the holy city to christian pilgrims. |
| 4th crusade | crusaders fought other crusaders, and victors massacred christian. |
| Major impacts of crusades | religious hatred, expanded economy, increased power of monarchs, and it started the age of exploration. |
| How did learning and culture flourish? | Need for education expanded, and the clergy was better educated, and lower class people could qualify for higher positions. With riches from trade, people indulged in culture and art, like literature and architecture. |
| Social effect of black death | people cut themselves off from the world, people were leaving their families, and Jews were |
| Political effect of black death | The monarchy gains power, due to the many deaths of the underclass. |
| Economic effect of black death | production declined, inflation rose, people demanded higher wages, and revolts happened on and off. Europe took over 100 years to recover. |
| Religious effect of the black death. | priests were unable to provide the leadership needed in this desperate time, as the clergy also died. The church then split due to people claiming to be the vicar of Christ (impersonator of leader). |
| what was the 100 years war? | A series of conflicts between France and England partially lead by Joan of Arc. French kings gained more power, and English parliament gained more power. |
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