What events led to the Black Death?
Over Population and Malnutrition in Europe
Unhealthy Situations
The poor treatment of subjects by kings
Migration from nation to nation
How was the Black Death spread through Europe?
Flees and rats
Rotten crops
Agricultural failures
The use of fertilizers
What were the economical consequences of the Black Death?
Dramatic Labor Shortage
Falling Agriculture
Attempts to freeze wages force peasants to stay on land
Peasants Revolt
Artisans benefit from demand for luxury goods.
Cities begin to loose income
Church looses power
Books educate people
New ideas make people capable of living more
How many years did the Hundred Years war last?
100 years
116 years
60 years
200 years
Between which two nations was the Hundred Years War?
England and France
Spain and Portugal
Spain and England
Sweden and Norway
The Hundred Years War lasted 100 years.
The Black Death outstripped food production in Europe.
There were three phases to the Hundred Years War.
What event led to the Hundred Years War?
English King Edward III claimed the French throne.
Flanders allied with England
The Great schism
The people of France wanted an English king to take over the throne after their King died
What is the Great Schism?
The Church is divided.
Vatican City is taken over by the Spanish King.
The scholarly study of Greek and Latin classics.
The invention of the printing machine.
Who invented the Printing Press?
Gutenberg
Michel Angelo
Leonardo Davinci
Henry The Navigator
The Printing Press was improved by Gutenberg.
Renaissance means "Rebirth"
The Renaissance was the division of Church and State.
The Printing Press was the first source of mass media.
What was Humanism?
The scholarly study of Greek and Latin classics in hopes of reviving ancient values.
The idea that all humans have the same value upon the eyes of god.
The "rebirth" of Roman ideas to improve religion and society as a whole.
A religion followed by the "Jesuits" in hopes of purifying the church.
The Holy Roman Empire was the most unified nation in all of Europe during the 14th century.
How was the Holy Roman Empire divided?
It was divided in to little kingdoms, ruled by their won monarchs and not entirely connected to the Church.
It was unified in to city states like Italy.
It was unified as a nation under the English Throne.
