Module 11 - Church & Society - 15 of 35 terms

A prolonged period of major crop failures that led to mass starvation in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages.

• the Great Famine

• The Great Death

• The Bubonic Plague

Which religious leader was the first to call for a crusade?

• Saladin

• Urban II

• Charlemagne

• King Henry II

The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economics.

• the Grand Revolution

• the Commercial Revolution

• the Economic Evolution

One of several expeditions by European Christians which attempted to gain control of the Holy Lands. They ultimately ended in failure.

• the Crusades

• the Crucible

• World War

• the Hajj

A French soldier and a national heroine who successfully led the French to regain land from the English during the One Hundred Years War.

• Saladin

• T. Aquinas

• Henry II

• Joan of Arc

This document, created in England, guaranteed political rights for the people of England and, for the first time, limited the power of the monarchy. King John was forced to sign it in 1215 C.E.

• The Great Document

• the Declaration

• the Magna Carta

Lay Investiture is

• banishment from the Church

• when many sacraments and religious ceremonies cannot be performed in the entire country.

• religious officials

• a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials

A letter of credit is

• a device used to decapitate someone

• a piece of land gifted by a king

• an organization of individuals in the same business striving to improve the economic and social conditions of its members

• issued by a bank allowing the bearer to withdraw a specific amount of money from the bank.

What was the aim of the Crusades?

• To try to conquer the Holy Land and Jerusalem

• To try to convert Muslims to Christianity

• To discover unknown lands

• To conquer Russia

The clergy is

• banishment from the Church

• when many sacraments and religious ceremonies cannot be performed in the entire country.

• religious officials

• a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials