HIS 101 Chapter 11 – Flashcards
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Women benefited from the black death because
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there were new employment opportunities
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The crucial battle of the Hundred Years' War that was won by Henry V in 1415 and that led to the treaty and apparent victory in the war for Henry and England was the Battle of
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Agincourt
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Florence was ruled throughout most of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the
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popolo grasso
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Changed urban attitudes in the fourteenth century included
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the regulation and acceptance of prostitution in most communities
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All of the following were reactions to the great plague EXCEPT a. an increase in violence and murder due to a sense of life's cheapness b. the formation of groups like the flagellants, who physically maimed themselves to save the world c. a reduction in the persecution of religious minorities because of the displeasure it caused God d. morbidity and preoccupation with death in everyday life e. economic depression
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c. a reduction in the persecution of religious minorities because of the displeasure it caused God
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One decisive advantage that England had at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War was
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longbow
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T/F: All medical books, even after the impact of the Black Death, continued to be written in Latin and all were highly theoretical rather than being practical
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false
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Merchants and manufacturers responded to the economic tribulations of the fourteenth century by
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restricting competition and resisting the demands of the lower classes
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Joan of Arc saved France by inspiring the French soldiers to break the English siege of
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Orleans
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T/F: it is estimated that famine in the early fourteenth century killed 35 percent of the European population
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false
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Post-plague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe
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got much worse as materially threatened nobles began to regard wealthier peasants and their new found desires for meat and wine with utter contempt
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In Venice, ultimate governmental executive power was held by the
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Council of Ten
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The chief ambition of the Venetian city-state in the fourteenth century was
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to create a maritime commercial empire throughout the mediterranean and black seas
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The Golden Bull of 1356 in Germany
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gave seven electors the power to choose the "king of the Romans"
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Ars moriendi refers to the
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art of dying
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The European aristocracy responded to the adversity of the great plague by
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seeking to lower wages by legal means, especially for farm laborers
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from 1305 to 1377, the Papacy resided across the French border in the town of
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Avignon
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T/F: the Visconti family ruled the Duchy of Milan throughout most of the fourteenth century
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true
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the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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was caused by the rising economic expectations of ordinary people
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Pogroms were
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organized massacres against the Jews
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The mystic who founded the Modern Devotion movement and led the group known as the Brothers of the Common Life was
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Gerard Groote
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during the reign of Edward III of England, the Great Council of the barons
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became the House of Lords forming a hereditary body of peers in Parliament
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after helping drive the english from france, joan of arc went on to
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be burned at the stake as a heretic
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meister eckhart
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was a mystic who claimed that one could achieve a union of the soul with God
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economically, the great plague and the crises of the fourteenth century
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raised wages because of a scarcity of labor
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dante's divine comedy
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is considered a synthesis of medieval christian thought
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T/F: the bubonic plague never actually arrived in Europe, but is rather the perpetuation of a medieval myth taken too literally
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false
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one overall result of the great schism was to
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badly damaged the faith of many christian believers
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what was the main cause of the early fourteenth century famines
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a little ice age inducing bad weather with heavy rains
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florence was ruled throughout most of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the
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popolo grasso
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T/F: one of france's advantages toward the end of the Hundred Years' War was its adoption of cannon
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true
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politically, italy and germany were similar in the fourteenth century because
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both regions failed to develop a centralized monarchical state
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T/F: all medical books, even after the impact of the black death, continued to be written in latin and all were highly theoretical rather than being practical
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false
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prior to the golden bull of 1356, germany was a land composed of
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hundreds of virtually independent states
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the black death
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recurred in severe outbreaks for centuries
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the french government and aristocracy responded to the jacquerie by
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massacring the participants
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the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France began when Philip
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taxed churchmen without the Church's permission
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politically, france by the end of the fourteenth century saw
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chaos and civil war as rival noble factions fought for control of the realm
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in the conduct of the hundred years' war, a sure sign of feudalism's decline was the
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decisive role of the peasant foot soldiers rather than mounted knights
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the italian condottieri were
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leaders of mercenary bands, occasionally ruling as military dictators
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