AP EURO SUMMER READING: TERMS LIST
(This is not a comprehensive list of possible terms but rather a guide to studying over the general
terms, names, and concepts)
Identify/define and explain the significance of the following:
Visigoths, Wergeld, comitatus, Tacitus, Charles Martel, three-field system, Pepin the Short,
Boethius, St. Patrick, Theodoric, Council of Whitby, Benedictine missionaries, Justinian the
Great, St. Benedict, Gregory the Great, scriptoria, Clovis, Attila the Hun, Constantinople, Hagia
Sophia, Ulfila, Merovingians, Cassiodorus, Doctrine of Petrine Succession, Theodora, Corpus
Iuris Civilis, monasticism, Ravenna, Bede the Venerable, Heraclius, bezant, Muhammad,
iconoclasm, Louis the Pious, Alcuin, Sunnites, Vladimir, Islam, Carolingian Renaissance,
Yaroslav the Wise, the Edda, ibn-Rushd/Averröes, Danelaw, Kiev, Seljuk Turks, missi dominici,
Al-Razi/Rhazes, denarius, Treaty of Verdun, Anglo-Saxon Normandy, Mecca, filioque, guilds,
Shiites, Kingdom of Lothar, Alfred of Wessex, hijra, Umayyads, feudalism, serfs, demesne,
investiture, primogeniture, fealty, excommunication, boon work, glebe land, Reconquista,
patricians, Norman Conquest, Domesday Book, Exchequer, Otto I, Ottonian Renaissance,
Cluniac monasteries, Gregory VII, Concordat of Worms, papal curia, Pope Urban II, The
Alexiad, Saladin, Hospitalers, vassalage, manorialism, fief, subinfeudation, knighthood,
chansons de geste, liege lord, spices, William of Normandy, earls, curia regis, Hugh Capet,
ecclesiastics, Salian House, College of Cardinals, Henry IV, canon law, Alexius Comnenus,
Robert of Normandy, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Templars, Teutonic Knights, trivium,
Scholasticism, Anselm of Canterbury, Héloïse, Duns Scotus, Romanesque, flying buttress,
courtly love, common law, Stephen Langton, Philip II Augustus, St. Louis, Siete Partidas,
Cortes, Peace of Constance, Peter Waldo, Cathari, Order of Preachers, Francis of Assisi, Fourth
Lateran Council, quadrivium, dialectic, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, Cistercians, Gothic, chivalry,
troubadour, Henry II, Thomas Becket, John I, Magna Carta, bailli, Alfonso X, Frederick I
Barbarossa, Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Pope Gregory IX, mendicant orders, Inquisition,
Innocent III.