Ap Euro- Crisis Of The Later Middle Ages: Part 1 - Vocab

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Great Famine

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terrible famine from 1315-1322 that struck most of Europe after a period of climate change

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Black Death

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Plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps one-third of the population

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flagellants

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People who believed that the plague was God's punishment for sin and sought to do penance by flagellating (whipping) themselves

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Agincourt

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The location near Arras in Flanders where an English victory in 1415 led to the reconquest of Normandy

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representative assemblies

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Deliberative meetings of lords and wealthy urban residents that flourished in many European countries between 1250 and 1450 and were the precursors to the English Parliament, German diets, and Spanish cortes

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Babylonian Captivity

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The period from 1309 to 1376 when the popes resided in Avignon rather than in Rome. The phrase refers to the seventy years when the Hebrews were held captive in Babylon.

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Great Schism

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The division, or split, in church leadership from 1378 to 1417 when there were two, then three, popes.

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conciliarists

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People who believed that the authority in the Roman church should rest in a general council composed of clergy, theologians, and laypeople, rather than in the pope alone

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confraternities

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Voluntary lay groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood, or charitable activity

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Jacquerie

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A massive uprising by French peasants in 1358 protesting heavy taxation

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English Peasants' Revolt

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Revolt by English peasants in 1381 in response to changing economic conditions.

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Statute of Kilkenny

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Laws issued in 1366 that discriminated against the Irish, forbidding marriage between the English and the Irish, requiring the use of the English language, and denying the Irish access to ecclesiastical offices.