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Who was the influential Florentine author of the Decameron and other literary works?

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Giovanni Boccaccio , poet and storyteller

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In what literary book was it reported that in Florence Italy cities and towns were the hardest hit

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Decameron

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What factors contributed to the papacy's loss of Prestige?

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Bribes paid to papal officials, raising funds top priority over saving souls

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Who fought in Hundred Years' War?

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France with Scotland's support vs England and the Low Countries.

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Before the 100 year war began, What frustrated the king of England causing him to look north word towards Scotland to compensate for his loss of land?

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The French king deprived the English king of most of his lands in France was intent on taking them all

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Before the hundred year war begin,With her 16-year-old son, Edward III as king of England what did Queen Isabella insist that her brother the French king Charles IV do?

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French king Charles IV was not to make further incursions into Guyenne, A region in France ruled by the English.

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What happened to France's King Charles VI befor the hundred year war began

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He died with no male heir. Then a cousin was crowned king Philip VI

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Who started the hundred year war

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England's King EdwardIII in order to protect their claim over Guyenne

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What were Mounted warriors whose purpose was to destroy crops and terrorize people of the country side during the Hundred Years' War.

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Chevauchees

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What ended the hundred years war

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Henry V of France and the French army captured Guyenne

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What were the names of two battles in the hundred years war

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Crèche and Poitiers

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What lead to corruption in the churches during the worldly church.

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Competition among clergy clergy for positions with good incomes called benefices and the church is concerned for raising money rather than saving souls

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Which pope reasserted the Papacy's supreme authority over secular rulers

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Pope Boniface VIII

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Pope Bonnaface's declaration issued called that defined the supreme authority of the pope

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Unam Sanctum

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70 year period Starting with Pope Clement V where the Papacy's residence was in the city of Avignon in southern France

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Avignon papacy [1305-1376]

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No matter how hard the avignon popes tried to assert moral authority of their office, what did they have to contend with

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The Papacy had become a worldly institution more interested in its own financial health then the spiritual health of ordinary Christians

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What was the split within the western church at the end of the Avignon papacy over the three rivals to the office of the pope called

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Great Schism

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Which three popes were involved in the great schism

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Alexander V, Urban VI, Clement VIi

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Which pope was ultimately named to end the great schism and also moved the Papacy back to Rome

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Pope Martin V

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What helped bring about the famine in the 13th century

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Weather changes in northern Europe front wet summers cold winters extensive flooding poor harvest shortages in food

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What claimed the lives of a 3rd to half of the population in Europe in the middle of the 1300's

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An epidemic of the bubonic plague

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What was another name for the bubonic plague

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Black death

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a brotherhood, especially with a charitable or religious purpose.

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Confraternities

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Medieval Christians who publicly scourged themselves to do penance for their sins.

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Flagellants

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Any group that innocently bears the blame of others

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Scapegoat

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Hey sailing cargo ship with a rounded hull

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Cog

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Title of the eldest son of the king of France usually the air of the throne

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Dauphin

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A military draft involuntary recruitment of soldiers among the people

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Conscription

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Code of military and courtly contact among the nobility that valued mercy in battle Christian duty and defense of women

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Chivalry

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Horse mounted Warriors this purpose was to destroy crops and terrorize the people of the countryside

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Chevauchees

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peasant girl who led french army to victory over the english in the 100 year's war she was captured by the English and burned at the stake as a witch

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Joan of Arc

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Right to the income from the church office

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Benefice

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Meeting of the church leaders to elect a new pope

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Conclave

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One of the popes titles

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Pontiff

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To resign from an office usually one with a life term

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Abdicate

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Where the church governed from in the 14th century and became a huge Bureaucracy,concerned primarily with its own finances

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Avignon

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Which empire was a chief rival andchipped away at the Byzantine Empire over the 14th centuries

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The Ottomans

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Capital of the Byzantine Empire that fell to the ottoman empire under sultan Mehmed II

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Constantinople

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The split within the Western church at the end of the Avignon Papacy over the three rivals to the office of the pope

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Great schism

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The idea that councils are supreme means for judgement and official rulings in the Church

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Counciliarism

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Sacred rituals of the Roman Catholic Church

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Sacraments

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Believe that God can be experience directly through contemplation and prayer

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mysticism (n)

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Laywomen mainly in the low countries of northern Europe who lived communally to devote themselves to a spiritual life

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Beguines

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And Asiatic people whose empire at its height in the 13th century stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean

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Mongols

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Mongol ruler who conquered northern China and establish the Mongol Empire

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Genghis Khan

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What part of the body was primarily attacked by the bubonic plague

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Lymph glands

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In what group did Lay people organize across Europe to promote repentance and carry out good works to help the sick and poor

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Confraternities

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What was the primary purpose of the Hanseatic league

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To protect and advance the interests of German merchants in the holy Roman empire

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Edward III of England's claim to the throne of France was on what basis

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His mother was the daughter of the French king

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At the battle of Crecy the English prevailed over the French in spite of what

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The French army superior numbers

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How was Henry V successful in rallying support among his subjects for the renewed hundred year war

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He manipulated public sentiment and patriotism so that his war became his subjects war

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Why was there a revolt in Flanders

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It was the result of English and French kings that pressured the Flemish each to control the Flemish economy

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How did the Avignon Papacy compensate for the loss of revenue from the Papal States after moving away from Rome

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It sold indulgences and charge a fee to hear appeals of judicial disputes

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What movement played a major part in bringing an end to the great schism

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Conciliarism

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followers of John Wycliffe, whose beliefs and social agenda drew the condemnation of the church

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Lollards (S)

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Followers of John Huss who questioned Catholic teachings about the Eucharist

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Hussites

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Which people from the east threaten the lands on the borders of Western Europe in the 13th century

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Mongols

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In the early 14th-century Osman founded which dynasty

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Ottoman

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Philosophical and literary study of what it means to be human

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Humanism

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Father of Humanism

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Petrarch

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Sole ruler with complete authority

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Autocrat

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Painter sculptor poet an architect considered in his time to be the greatest artist Italy had ever produced

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Michaelangelo Buonarroti

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Skilled craftsmen such as cabinet maker painter or shoemaker

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Artesian

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the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City

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Vatican

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One of the worlds greatest artist and engineers most famous for the Mona lisa

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Petrarch is considered a humanist for what reason

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He had a deep interest in the authors of classical room such as Cicero

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What does renaissance literally mean

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Rebirth signifying a revival

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commissioned Michelangelo's great paintings in the Sistine Chapel. He restored the papal states to papal control

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Pope Julius II

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Italian artist relied on linear perspective to convey depth and dimension, what did Flemish painters use to achieve the same effect

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Gradations in color and light

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Humanist of northern Europe different from those in the Italian peninsula in what ways

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They maintained a closer relationship to the church and universities

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What is a Jewish mystical text

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Kabbalah

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When Italian painters use linear perspective in their work, they relied on what to convey depth and dimension

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The vanishing point

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