Pope _____ reached out to the pagan tribes and began the work of their conversion.

Monasticism began in about the year 300, when _____ brought together a group of solitary hermits to live in community.

Two Greek brothers, _____, brought the good news of Jesus Christ to "barbarian" Europe in the ninth century.

_____ was a great theologian whose writings helped to defeat the Arians at the Council of Constantinople in 381.

During the seventh and eighth centuries, armies of Muslims conquered much of the Middle East, including the holy sites in _____.

_____ is a life dedicated to prayer, work, study, and the needs of society.

The Emperor Charlemagne launched a reorganization of the Church's _____ , or governing body.

Under the rule of Basil the Great, monks promised to practice poverty, chastity, and obedience, which are called the _____

Pope Gregory the Great was involved in the development of the _____, a book that would guide the celebration of Mass and the other sacraments for many centuries to come.

A _____ is a place where monks or nuns live.

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

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

An official court that investigated people who were accused of heresy

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

Persons who taught false doctrines

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

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

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

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

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

The word _____ comes from the Latin word for "beggar" and is used to describe a new form of religious life that arose during the High Middle Ages.

Many professional military men of high rank called _____ volunteered to fight to "take back the cross" and free the Holy Land.

The Holy Land included the holy city of _____.

in 1215 Pope Innocent III gathered about 1, 200 Church leaders for _____.

The Spanish Inquisition was launched by _____ in 1497

In 1095 Pope Urban II called on all Christian rulers to organize a crusade to_____.

The reign of Pope _____ marked the high point of papal power.

In 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade attacked and looted _____, a city in the eastern part of the Christian world.

By 1453 Muslim conquerors had taken over the great Christian city of Constantinople.

The general council of the Church that met in the city of _____, Switzerland, from 1414 to 1418 decided to set aside three rival popes and elect a new pope.

The philosophy called _____ places an increased emphasis on the importance of the person.

The transitional period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age is known as _____.

_____ is the word used to describe a man who is not the true pope but who claims to be the pope.

By the late Middle Ages, few laypeople spoke or understood _____, the language of the Mass

From the late 1300s until 1417, the Church was torn apart by a situation known as the _____.