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Andrus AP European History Ch 9 Reading Study Guide #1 P. 257-268
1. Name the two principal countries involved in the Hundred Years War.
2. What did the conciliarists believe about papal power and authority?
3. What conditions in Europe made the population particularly susceptible to
the Black Death?
4. Where did the plague probably enter Europe? Where did it spread? Study
the map on P. 259 and be prepared to discuss.
5. Cities were particularly hard hit. Why do you think this was the case?
6. Who wrote the Decameron?
7. Name the group of people who beat themselves for ritual penance thinking
God might therefore help them.
8. What religious minority group was sometimes (falsely) blamed for the
outbreak and spread of the Black Death?
9. What was the Statute of Laborers? What was the Taille?
10. Why did these lead to peasant revolts?
11. How did cities benefit in the years following the plague?
Read: “Dealing with Death” P. 261
12. How do illness and death shape history and culture?
13. Why did physicians and the clergy wield so much power/influence?
14. What were the main issues leading to the start of the Hundred Years War?
15. What weapon gave the English an early advantage in the war?
16. What territory did the English win in the Battle of Crecy? (1346)
17. What special prisoner did they capture in the Battle of Poitiers? (1356)
18. How did this lead to a governmental and societal breakdown in France?
19. What happened at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415?
20. How did Joan of Arc help Charles VII unify France and (later) win the war?
21. In what ways did the Late-Medieval church try to act like a monarchy?
22. Why do you think kings and commoners alike fought against this trend?
Read: “Joan of Arc Refuses to Recant Her Beliefs” P. 268
23. Do the judges appear to have made up their minds about Joan in
advance?
24. Why do you think Joan was found ‘heretical’ rather than ‘insane’?