Ch. 14 Latin West
1) Why did Europeans call themselves "Latins"?
2) What were the common elements that changed Latin Europe?
3) How was society divided?
4) Why were serfs not willing to improve agricultural techniques?
5) What did Thomas Aquinas say about women in regards to their equality and rights?
6) What were the three reasons for rural poverty?
7) To what do historians attribute population growth?
8) Why was the 3 field system necessary?
9) Who established the German state of Prussia?
10) How did they gain new land for farming?
11) What was the percentage of the population that died as a result of the Black Death?
12) What were the symptoms of plague?
13) What two diseases were included in the plague?
14) What two reactions were there to the plague?
15) What made it difficult for the population to get back to pre-plague levels?
16) What did the population changes do to labor?
17) What was the Jacqurie?
18) Why did serfdom disappear from Western Europe?
19) What were the reasons for improvements in rural life?
20) What did areas where winter froze water use for power?
21) Who paid for the building of mills?
22) Why was the miller often seen as corrupt?
23) What happened to iron in this time period?
24) What did industry do to the environment?
25) What is deforestation?
26) Why was there urban growth?
27) How did Venetia become a trade power?
28) Explain the expansion of trade in Flanders?
29) What were trading fairs? Were they effective?
30) Why did Florence become a trade power?
31) How did autonomy affect trade cities?
32) What happened to the Jews?
33) How were women affected by guilds?
34) What were merchant bankers? What families became powerful merchant-bankers?
35) Explain "interest" in merchant banking?
36) What are flying buttresses?
37) What did thinner walls make possible in Gothic Cathedrals?
38) Why were Cathedrals not stable at first?
39) What new works were they reading?
40) Explain how people could get each level of degree from the universities?
41) Why was theology the "queen of the sciences"?
42) What were the ideas presented in Summa Theologica?
43) Identify the authors and their texts and what their texts were about
a. Dante
b. Chaucer
c. Petrarch
d. Boccaccio
e. Erasmus
44) What is vernacular and why was it so important to scholasticism and humanism?
45) Why did Pope Nicholas V create the Vatican Library?
46) What were the three technological improvements in printing?
47) Guttenberg in important because…?
48) What were the subjects portrayed in Renaissance art?
49) Who was Giotto and why was he important?
50) Same question for Jan Van Eyck
51) You probably already know Leonardo and Michelangelo
52) How did the rich bankers contribute to art?
54) What were problems facing hereditary monarchs?
55) What was the goal of vassals in actuality?
56) What two new technologies were invented for warfare?
57) What did Pope Boniface VIII do? What happened b/c of that?
58) How else did King Philip gain more control?
59) What did Louis IX do?
60) How did the English have more centralized power?
61) Identify King John and what he did.
62) What was a political way to gain power for the hereditary monarchs?
63) Find a way to understand the Hundred’s Year War
64) Who is Joan of Arc and what did she do?
65) What were the goals of "new monarchs"?
66) What technologies challenged the nobility?
67) How did new monarchs pay for the military?
68) How did monarchs interact with merchants and the church?
69) What did the new monarch power shift not change for the nobility?
70) Explain the legislative assemblies in England and France
71) Who was involved with the reconquest?
2) What were the common elements that changed Latin Europe?
3) How was society divided?
4) Why were serfs not willing to improve agricultural techniques?
5) What did Thomas Aquinas say about women in regards to their equality and rights?
6) What were the three reasons for rural poverty?
7) To what do historians attribute population growth?
8) Why was the 3 field system necessary?
9) Who established the German state of Prussia?
10) How did they gain new land for farming?
11) What was the percentage of the population that died as a result of the Black Death?
12) What were the symptoms of plague?
13) What two diseases were included in the plague?
14) What two reactions were there to the plague?
15) What made it difficult for the population to get back to pre-plague levels?
16) What did the population changes do to labor?
17) What was the Jacqurie?
18) Why did serfdom disappear from Western Europe?
19) What were the reasons for improvements in rural life?
20) What did areas where winter froze water use for power?
21) Who paid for the building of mills?
22) Why was the miller often seen as corrupt?
23) What happened to iron in this time period?
24) What did industry do to the environment?
25) What is deforestation?
26) Why was there urban growth?
27) How did Venetia become a trade power?
28) Explain the expansion of trade in Flanders?
29) What were trading fairs? Were they effective?
30) Why did Florence become a trade power?
31) How did autonomy affect trade cities?
32) What happened to the Jews?
33) How were women affected by guilds?
34) What were merchant bankers? What families became powerful merchant-bankers?
35) Explain "interest" in merchant banking?
36) What are flying buttresses?
37) What did thinner walls make possible in Gothic Cathedrals?
38) Why were Cathedrals not stable at first?
39) What new works were they reading?
40) Explain how people could get each level of degree from the universities?
41) Why was theology the "queen of the sciences"?
42) What were the ideas presented in Summa Theologica?
43) Identify the authors and their texts and what their texts were about
a. Dante
b. Chaucer
c. Petrarch
d. Boccaccio
e. Erasmus
44) What is vernacular and why was it so important to scholasticism and humanism?
45) Why did Pope Nicholas V create the Vatican Library?
46) What were the three technological improvements in printing?
47) Guttenberg in important because…?
48) What were the subjects portrayed in Renaissance art?
49) Who was Giotto and why was he important?
50) Same question for Jan Van Eyck
51) You probably already know Leonardo and Michelangelo
52) How did the rich bankers contribute to art?
54) What were problems facing hereditary monarchs?
55) What was the goal of vassals in actuality?
56) What two new technologies were invented for warfare?
57) What did Pope Boniface VIII do? What happened b/c of that?
58) How else did King Philip gain more control?
59) What did Louis IX do?
60) How did the English have more centralized power?
61) Identify King John and what he did.
62) What was a political way to gain power for the hereditary monarchs?
63) Find a way to understand the Hundred’s Year War
64) Who is Joan of Arc and what did she do?
65) What were the goals of "new monarchs"?
66) What technologies challenged the nobility?
67) How did new monarchs pay for the military?
68) How did monarchs interact with merchants and the church?
69) What did the new monarch power shift not change for the nobility?
70) Explain the legislative assemblies in England and France
71) Who was involved with the reconquest?
