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31 Cards in this Set
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What was the name of the communities in which monk's lived?
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Monasteries
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What were women who served the church called?
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Nuns
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What were 3 things that the church offered the people in a village?
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Religious services -- orphanages -- care for the sick and poor -- feast festivals
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Economically, what was the difference between the parish priest and the Bishop
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Parish Priest came from a poor family/Bishop from a rich family
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What the name of the political(government)system of the Middle Ages
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Feudalism
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What social group on the "bottom" of the feudal pyramid
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The peasant
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What did the peasant get for farming the Lord's land
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Protection
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What is guild
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A business association of trades people
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What was a fief?
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Land granted under the feudal system
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Page
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What was the 1st step in becoming a knight
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Squire
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What was the 2nd step in becoming a knight
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6 or 7
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At what age could a boy start to become a knight
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What was a page's job
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Help a knight dress and put on his amour
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What was a Squires job?
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Bring knight replacement weapons and/or horses during a battle
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A few days
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From the time a person got the plague how long before they died
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Refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs.
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When someone in the family got the plague, what did most families to?
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Which were more likely to get the plague -- rich or poor
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The plague made no distinction when it came to choosing its victims.
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The plague spread by physical contact. Sometimes the plague was spread by respiration (coughing, sneezing, breathing).
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How was this plague spread
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From where did the plague come originally to Genoese, Italy
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The Black Sea
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Why did the plague spread so easily
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People did not know the cause
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What kept communities small?
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Did not have the power protect large area
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Why was the Church more important than the lord to the people
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Church could get them to heaven
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Why did the Pope Crown Charlegmagne
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Hoped to increase Church's power
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What did the Magna Carta do?
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limit the power of the king and gave nobels a say
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Senate
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In the Roman Republic the law making body was called
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Ancient Athens
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Which society practiced direct democracy?
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Roman women could make wills leaving property to anyone they wanted "
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Roman women enjoyed some legal rights
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What was one cause of the development of many small independent city-states in ancient Greece?
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The mountainous terrain of Greece resulted in widely scattered settlements
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Which best describes the religious similarities between early civilizations (Mesopotamia and Egypt) and Ancient Greece?
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Early civilizations and the Ancient Greeks were polytheistic
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What is one way economically in which early civilizations and Ancient Greeks are similar?
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Both relied on agriculture as the basis of their economy
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After the Roman Empire in the West fell, what was left of the Roman Empire?
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Byzantium
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