History 110 Final Study Guide

History 110 Final Study Guide

Final 2015

Date: December 9 @ 8:00 AM

Part I (50%; 25 questions; 2 points each): Multiple-choice questions will be based on terms that were provided in your textbook, according to the assigned readings.

Chapter 9: “State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300” (pages 240-273)

Terms: Domesday Book, primogeniture, Holy Roman Empire, Reconquista, Magna Carta, simony, Pope Gregory VII (pontificate 1073-1085), Waldensians, Albigensians, canon law, Innocent III (pontificate 1198-1216), Saint Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, friars, Cistercians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Poor Clares, indulgences, Saladin (Salah al-Dihn)

Chapter 10: “Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300” (pages 274-309)

Terms: serfs, manor, open-field system, sacraments, merchant guild, craft guild, Hanseatic League, Francesco Datini, usury, sumptuary laws, Peter Abelard (1079-1142), Saint Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), Romanesque, Gothic

Chapter 11: “The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1450” (pages 310-341)

Terms: flagellants, Joan of Arc, Great Schism, William of Occam, Marsiglio of Padua, conciliarists, John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Meister Eckhart, confraternities, Jacquerie, Statute of Kilkenny, Divine Comedy, Canterbury Tales

Video: “Al-Andalus History of Islam in Spain” [on YouTube]

Isabella, Moors, Alhambra Palace (Granada), madrasas, Toledo, Granada, Ferdinand, inquisition

Part II: Long answer essays (50 points; 25 points each): Two of these questions will be on the midterm. Students are expected to respond to both of the questions. Please write thoughtful responses that reflect careful thinking beforehand and include specific examples.

1. What were the causes, course, and consequences of the Crusades?

2. What were some of the most important similarities and differences between village and city life in medieval Europe?

3. How did natural and manmade disasters combine to make the fourteenth century a time of social and economic upheaval?