Honors European History
Unit One: Middle Ages
STUDY GUIDE
The following is a list of items about which you should be able to speak intelligently if you are to succeed on this
exam. Be sure you can identify them and show their connection with the things we have discussed in class. If you
have questions, feel free to ask during the review period.
Dates:
Middle Ages =
First Crusade =
High Middle Ages =
Civilization defined
Renaissance
4 ingredients of Middle Ages “soup”
Reason for titles – “Dark” and “Middle”
Battle of Tours
Carolingians
Invaders of Carolingian Emp. – Viking, Magyar, Arab
Manorialism
Causes of feudalism
Prayers, fighters, workers
Three Field System
Importance of Church to Medieval World
St. Patrick – from the Northwest
St. Boniface – to Germany
Feudalism =
Charlemagne =
Black Death =
Western Civilization
Civ-o-meter and its major points
First Barbarians – Franks, Goths, Vandals, Huns
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine)
Charlemagne – Emperor of the Romans, accomplishments
Rise and Decline of Carolingian Empire
Feudalism = lord-vassal system
Medieval give and take
What feudalism was and was not
Self-sufficiency
Christendom
Hierarchy of Catholic Church
Monasteries and spread of Catholic Faith
St. Benedict – from the Southeast
Split with Eastern Orthodox
Power of Church in Middle Ages – spiritual, political, economic, education, warfare, etc.
Excommunication
Sacraments
Causes of Crusades
Fief
Seljuk Turks
Rise of Italian city states
Deforestation of Europe
Black Plague
Scholasticism
Oath of Fealty
Vassal
Heresy
Universities and monasteries
Effects of Crusades
Pope Urban II
Reconquista of Spain
Money economy and effects
Medieval Towns
Guilds
Aristotle
Lord
Peasant, Serf