8th Grade Ch 10 Test

The cultural and political atmosphere that came into existence during the High Middle Ages in Europe

• Christendom

• simony

• Inquisition

• lay investiture

The buying and selling of spiritual things, spiritual services, or Church offices

• simony

• Inquisition

• lay investiture

• heretics

An official court that investigated people who were accused of heresy

• Inquisition

• lay investiture

• heretics

• excommunication

An illicit practice by secular leaders to invest, or empower, Church leaders with authority

• lay investiture

• heretics

• excommunication

• Christendom

Persons who taught false doctrines

• heretics

• excommunication

• Christendom

• simony

a severe penalty that brings exclusion from participation in the Church's sacramental life

• excommunication

• Christendom

• simony

• Inquisition

Two great orders of _____ that were begun during the High Middle Ages are the Franciscans and the Dominicans

• friars

• mendicant

• pilgrimages

• Crusades

The _____ were battles to free the Holy Land and its sacred sites from Muslim control.

• Crusades

• Christianity

• reforms

• corruption

From the earliest days of the Church, many Catholics followed the spiritual practice of going on _____ to shrines or other holy places

• pilgrimages

• Crusades

• Christianity

• reforms

Pope Gregory VII started what we now call the Gregorian _____, which are still in place in the Church today.

• reforms

• corruptions

• knights

• friars