Review Sheet: The Middle Ages
People
The Franks
Clovis
Charlemagne
Will. of Normandy /
The Conqueror
The Plantagenets
King Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thomas a Becket
King John
The Capetians
Vocabulary
Middle Ages/Medieval
Early Middle/Dark Ages
Late/High Middle Ages
renaissance
Carolingian Renaissance
Commercial Revolution
Scriptoria
Secular
Clergy
Laity/Lay people
Monks
Monasteries
Pope
Tithe
Sacrament
Canon Law
Excommunication
Interdict
Papal States
Anti Semitism
Concepts/Ideas
Vernacular
3 Field System
Manorialism
Manor
Feudalism
Serf
Nobles/Lords
Freeman
Vassals
Knights
Fief
Domesday Book
Parliament
Magna Carta
Common Law
Estates General
Flying Buttresses
Ribbed Vaults
Dynasty
100 Years War
Great Schism
-Problems facing Europe after fall of
Rome; specific examples of each problem,
specific exceptions to each problem
-3 major achievements of Charlemagne
-Differences between centralized and
decentralized governments
-Reasons the Dark Ages ended
-Differences b/w Dark Ages and High
Middle Ages
- Development of a Centralized Gov’t in
France + England; differences between the
gov’t of the 2 countries
-Responsibilities and Power of Church
-Struggle between church and kings,
between nobles and kings
-The Spread + Effects of the Black
Death (short term and long term)
-Info from class presentations
Deathbed Dates:
476
800
1066
1054
1215