middle age vocabulary

An outbreak of bubonic plague in europe (1347) that killed almost 2/3 of the population in less than 5 years

• feudalism

• black death

• covid-19

• magna carta

The eastern half of the roman empire including the capital Constantinople, that survived the fall of the western half it lasted over 1000 years after the fall of rome in 476 C.E

• crusades

• realism

• Byzantine Empire

• Native empire

A series of holy wars started by the christians of Europe, and sanctioned by the catholic pope to recover Jerusalem (the holy land) from muslims

• medieval art

• renaissance

• crusades

• roman catholic church

The social system existing in medieval Europe in which peasants and knights worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return

• Medieval art

• roman catholic church

• feudalism

• silk road

a charter signed in 1215 that limited the english monarchs power and guaranteed the fundamental rights and privileges of the people

• middle east

• monastery

• magna carta

• silk road

A type of art in which the subjects are religious, figures look flat and stiff, important figures are large, subjects are clothed with little emotion, and is flat and two dimensional with a single color background

• magna carta

• perspective

• medieval art

• realism

the region in Western asia and northeast africa that includes the nations on the arabian peninsula

• middle east

• silk road

• monastery

• realism

A religious area of building where monks lived. monstrosities where isolated from the rest of the world so the wonks could focus on worshiping god

• crusades

• monastery

• realism

• silk road

An artist technique that creates appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface

• perspective

• medieval art

• silk road

• feudalism

the idea of painting and sculpting realistically. it involves a number of techniques that make the subjects and background look like they would in real life

• realism

• renaissance

• monastery

• roman catholic church