Discussion Post

Ch. 10 pt. I and II

Crisis, Unrest, and Opportunity 1300-1500

Pick 3-4 items below to do some prep work on.

The Great Famine 1315-1322

Causes and effects of?

The Black Death

Cause and effect of?

Effects on: Commerce, environment, society, church, and etc…

Flagellant Movement

Serfs and Peasants

Positives of the Black Plague?

After Plague

Urban Growth

Trade

Revolts and Rebellions

Aristocrats and Nobles

The Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453

What are the causes of the war?

Who are the major players?

Three Phase of the War

Battle of Agincourt

Outcomes of Henry V’s victory?

Joan of Arc—what is her role?

War of the Roses

Who is involved, what are they fighting over?

Conflict in the Holy Roman Empire

Italy

Venice, Florence, and Milan

Emergence of Unified Spain

How does Spain come together?

Rise of Muscovy

Mongols and Moscow relations?

Poland and Lithuania

Fall of Constantinople 1453

How does this impact Russia/Muscovy?

Ivan the Great

Golden Horde

Ch. 10 pt. II

Babylonian Captivity / Avignon Papacy 1309-1378

What is the Avignon Papacy?

Who is involved-what are the controversies?

Catherine of Siena—what is her role?

Great Western Schism

What happens?

Council of Constance 1414-1418

Councilarism

What effect did this have on the church locally and centrally?

Religious Movements

Lollards & Hussites

John Wycliffe

Jan Hus

What did these movements want?

How were they threats to the Church?

Writing, Art, and Technology

Spread of vernacular through local writers

Who are some of them?

How does this affect language?

How does art change in the late Middle Ages?

Technology

In war

In printing

Mechanical devices

Optics

Etc…