Name: ___________________
Modern European History
Date: ____________
Unit 1 – The Renaissance
Content Quiz Study Guide
We will have our first content quiz next class. It will consist of objective questions (multiple
choice, matching, true/false, etc.) and short-answer essay questions.
You should be able to define/identify/explain the significance of the following:
what life in the Middle Ages was really like
feudalism: fief, manor, lord, peasant
four humors/bloodletting
rise of the merchant class/guilds
the Catholic Church v. secular
priest, bishop, archbishop, cardinal, pope
the Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the sick, Penance and Reconciliation,
Eucharist, Matrimony
veneration of the Saints
simony, lay investiture, excommunication, interdict
Pope Gregory VII v. King Henry IV of Germany
1075 Dictatus Papae
Allah
the Black stone, Kaaba, Makkah (Mecca)
Muhammad’s story
the Quran
The Five Pillars of Islam: Declaration of Faith, Daily Prayer, Charity, Fasting, Pilgrimage
jihad
Sunni & Shi’a/Shiite Muslims
Seljuk Turks v. Byzantine Empire
Holy Land, the Crusades
the Children’s Crusade of 1212 & the Third Crusade
Saladin, Richard I of England
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center towers, Pentagon, Pennsylvania field
al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden
9/11 Commission
Hundred Years’ War
longbow
Joan of Arc, heresy
Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic Plague
buboes
causes of the Plague – truth and myths
attempts to stop the plague
flagellanti, “Golden Circle”
pogrom
posy
sexton
gavoccioli
reactions of the general public to the plague
funeral bier