REVIEW FRQ’S AND TERMS, CHAPTERS 12-16
Chapter 12 per se will not be on the AP Test. However events and terms from Chapter 12 will creep into questions.
1. Analyze the factors that contributed to the disruption of the feudal equilibrium after 1300. What were the
consequences of this disruption?
Little Ice Age/Great Famine
Black Death
Hundred Years’ War
2. Explain how the peasants’ rebellions of the 14th century were in part caused by rising expectations that were
not fulfilled, or at least could not be fulfilled peaceably.
Fur Collar Crime
Jacquerie
Peasants Revolt in England in 1381
3. Examine the consequences of the Great Schism and the Babylonian Captivity on the Catholic Church. How
successful was the Conciliar Movement in dealing with the problems of the Church?
Great Schism
Babylonian Captivity
Conciliar Movement
Confraternities
Avignon
Simony
Pluralism
Clerical Extravagance
John Wyclif
Jan Hus
4. Explain why the Hundred Years’ War was so prolonged. What were its most important results for both
England and France?
Salic Law
Longbowmen
Joan of Arc
Henry V of England
Charles VII of France
Chapter 13: The Renaissance
1. Discuss how Renaissance ideas are expressed in the Italian art of the period, referring to specific works and
artists.
Humanism
Individualism
Ideal Renaissance Man
Secularism
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Botticelli (It might be a good idea to review the Renaissance Art power point
2. Discuss how Renaissance ideas are expressed in the work of Renaissance philosophers.
Pico della Mirandola
Machiavelli
Erasmus
Thomas More
3. To what extent and in what ways did women participate in the Renaissance?
4. Using examples from at least two different states, analyze the key features of the “new monarchies” and the
factors responsible for their rise in the period 1450 to 1550.
Henry VII of England
Court of the Star Chamber
Royal Council
Justices of the Peace
Charles VII of France
Gabelle
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Ferdinand and Isabella
Reconquista
Coversos
Inquisition
Chapter 14: The Reformation
1. To what extent did economic and political circumstances of his day contribute to the success of Martin Luther
as a reformer?
Holy Roman Empire
Charles V
Elector of Saxony
Archbishop Albert
Leo X
Diet of Worms
German Peasants’ War
Peace of Augsburg
2. The pictures below show the interiors of a Protestant church and a Roman Catholic church as each appeared
in the first half of the seventeenth century. Using these pictures as a starting point, explain how these interiors
reflect the differing theologies and religious practices of Protestantism and Catholicism at that time.
Ulrich Zwingli
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Salvation by Faith/Salvation by Faith and
Good Works
Biblical Authority/Biblical and Papal
Authority
Priesthood of all Believers/Church hierarchy
Role of women in the church
Predestination
3. Describe and analyze the ways in which sixteenth century Roman Catholics defended their faith against the
Protestant Reformation.
Tridentine Reforms
2 sacraments vs. 7 sacraments
Jesuits
4. Compare and contrast the motivations for and the resolutions of the French religious wars and the religious
wars in the Netherlands between 1570 and 1610.
Huguenots
St. Bartholomew Day’s Massacre
War of the Three Henry’s
Henry IV
Edict of Nantes
Phillip II
Duke of Alva
Council of Blook
Union of Utrecht
Elizabeth I
Chapter 15: World Trade
1. Explain how economic, technological, political and religious factors promoted European explorations.
Spice Trade
Prince Henry the Navigator
Caravel
Magnetic Compass
Astrolabe
Bartholomew Diaz
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Ferdinand Magellan
Columbian Exchange
Slave Trade
Christianization
Spanish Armada
Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
1. Louis XIV declared his goal was “one king, one law, one faith.” Analyze the methods the king used to achieve
this objective and discuss the extent to which he was successful.
Intendants
Nobility of the Robe
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Divine Right
Mercantilism
2. Describe and analyze the changes in the role of Parliament in English politics between the succession of
James I and the Glorious Revolution.
James I
Charles I
Ship money
Long Parliament
Triennial Act
Oliver Cromwell
Restoration
Charles II
Test Act
James II
Glorious Revolution
William and Mary
English Bill of Rights
4. Explain the reasons for the rise in the Netherlands as a leading commercial power in the period 1550 to 1650.
Merchant Oligarchy
States General
Stadtholder
Protestant Work Ethic
Religious Toleration
Dutch East India Company