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Study Guide – European History
Mrs. Wood
The following information is to help guide you in studying for the midterm. You should also use class notes, homework
assignments, corrected quizzes, tests, & essays, and the textbook.
Format
 50 multiple choice (1 point each)
 5 short answer (10 points each)
 10 terms (3 points each)
 Essay Part A (30 points)
 Essay Part B (40 points)
 Total: 200 points
Terms
Middle Ages
 Decline of the Roman Empire
 Causes
 Results
 Germanic Kingdoms
 Monasteries
 Monks
 Secular
 Charles Martel
 Charlemagne
 Treaty of Verdun
 Feudalism
 Vikings
 Viking warships
 Lord
 Fief
 Vassal
 Nobility
 Knights
 Manor
 Serf
 Tithe
 Battle of Tours
 Medieval
 Dark Ages
 Age of Faith
 Age of Feudalism
 Chivalry
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Japan
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Squire
Lay investiture
Excommunication
Canon law
Samurai
Bushido
Shogun
Daimyo
Ronin
Formation of Western Europe
 Crusade
 Simony
 First crusade
 Third crusade
 Saladin
 Dominicans
 Cathedrals
 Gothic
 Romanesque
 Pope Urban II
 Richard the Lionhearted
 Children’s Crusade
 Reconquista
 Spanish Inquisition
 Church reform
 Commercial Revolution
 Magna Carta
 Parliament
 House of Commons
 House of Lords
 Estates General
 First, second, and third estates
 Three-field system
 The Black Plague
 Great Schism
 100 Year War
 Joan of Arc
Renaissance
 Causes
 Medici
 Patronage
 Humanism
 Secularism
 Naturalism
 The David
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Michaelangelo
da Vinci
Sistine Chapel
Book of Genesis
Individualism
Mona Lisa
Characteristics of Renaissance art
Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Durer
William Shakespeare
Johann Gutenberg
Printing press
Reformation
 Causes
 Protestant
 Heresy
 Ottoman Empire
 Inquisition process
 Abuses of the church
 Leo X
 Indulgences
 Johann Tetzel
 Martin Luther
 John Calvin
 Henry VIII
 Vernacular
 Peasant Wars
 Peace of Augsburg
 95 Theses
 Charles V
 Recant
 Edict of Worms
 Predestination
 Theocracy
 Act of Supremacy
 Anglican
 Council of Trent
Exploration
 Reasons for
 Results of