THE LATE MIDDLE AGES OPEN NOTE TEST
STUDY GUIDE
Date: May 5, 2023
Format: 3 Short Answers
60 points
Essential Questions:
1. How does the European Middle Ages and particularly, the struggle for power between the church, the king,
and nobility lay the foundation of Europe, western civilization, and modernity?
2. Why is this period not a “Dark Age?”
What to know- Late Middle Ages
The Crusades
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Causes
Effects
Result of the Crusades
Great Schism
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Causes
Effects
Bubonic Plague
Commercial Revolution
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Causes
Effects
England and France Develop
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Causes
Effects
Importance- common law,
Parliament, Magna Carta
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Causes
Effects
Why so deadly?
Hundred Years War
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Causes
Effects
Significance
Joan of Arc
What are the big effects of the Late Middle Ages? How did they happen?