Unit 3C - Study Guide 1

Big Questions: Why did West Europe fragment into small regional states while Eastern Europe continued intact under the Byzantine Empire? How did post-classical states [governments] try to avoid the mistakes that led to the fall of classical empires?

Relevant Reading

Text & Secondary Sources Strayer, Ch 10 – The Worlds of European Christendom: Connected and Divided, 500-1300

General History Vocabulary anti-semitism, atheism, capital, celibacy, chauvinism, chivalry, clergy, divine, doctrine, dogma, feudalism, fief, guild, medieval, monogamy, nobility, pagan, papal, papacy, pilgrim, serf, serfdom

People

Name Theme(s)

Place/Time

Significance (What did this person do?)

Justinian & Theodora

Prince Vladimir

Clovis

Charlemagne

Vikings

Pope Gregory I

St. Benedict

Frederick Barbarossa

Leif Ericsson

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Pope Urban II

William the

Conqueror

aka William of Normandy

Vocabulary / Historical Events / Trends

Term

Theme(s)

Place/Time

Definition & Significance

Hagia Sophia

Justinian’s Code

aka Corpus Juris Civilis

mosaic

Greek fire

heresy

bezant

iconoclasm

excommunication

Great Schism

1054

The “Great Schism” refers to when the Roman Catholic Pope and the E. Orthodox Patriarch excommunicated each other.

Battle of Tours

count

missi dominici

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vassal / retainer

benefice

aka “fief” or “fiefdom”

serf

manor

monastic

Middle Ages / Medieval

“Early Middle Ages” “High Middle Ages”

chivalry

guild

scholasticism

sacrament

Holy Roman

Empire

Hanseatic League

Reconquista

three estates

Unit 3C - Study Guide 4 Study Questions

1. What sorts of conflicts were there between secular and religious authorities during this period? How do you explain the relative strength of religious authorities in these conflicts?

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2. For a long time it was believed that Europe’s Middle Age constituted an era of little change. What evidence is there in this unit to reject this interpretation?

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3. What were 4 effects of Cultural Exchange in the post-classical era/period?

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D. ___________________________________ 4. What universal religions spread during the post-classical era?

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D. ___________________________________ 5. What new transportation & communication technologies developed during the post-classical era?

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Unit 3C Study Guide 5

Geography/Map Label & Color Mountains/Land Features Alps Mtns. Apennines Mtns. Balkan Mtns. Carpathian Mtns. Pyrenees Mtns. Straits of Gibraltar Rivers Danube Seine Ebro Thames Rhine Vistula Rhône Volga Bodies of Water Aegean Sea Baltic Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea English Channel Mediterranean Sea North Sea Cities Aachen Byzantium

(Constantinople) Kiev London

Moscow Paris Rome Venice