Unit 0 Review Flashcards

Banderas AP Euro

three factors that led to the decline and fall of the western roman empire

plague, civil war, invasions

three major threats to european states from 700-14500 CE

arab caliphates, ottoman turks, mongol hordes

the three ethnic groups that comprised the larger states of bohemia and moravia in the eastern part of the holy roman empire

germans, czech, italians

four ethnic groups that remained largely or partly unconverted to christianity at some point from the 5th to 14th centuries

balts, slavs, germans, celts

the political and organizational hierarchy used by european kingdoms after the fall of rome in the 5th century

feudalism

the laws and rights that granted peasants use of manorial land for sustenance, so long as labor, grains, goods, or [rarely] coins were paid as taxes for protection

common land

name for the major trade unions started in 1368 that dominated northern european port cities for several centuries

hanseatic league

establishment that emerged in the 5th century that determined christian doctrine in europe western, central, northern, and parts of southern europe until the protestant reformation in the 16th century

roman catholic church

hierarchy of church (highest to lowest)

pope, cardinals, bishops, priests

church’s name for opponents of orthodox catholic beliefs

heretics

the first primary separatist critics of the catholic church in the 12th and 13th centuries who believed some practices of the church were not theological but mean to extract profit from believers

waldensians

leader of waldensians

peter waldo

mathematician who first provided a solar model in which the sun was at the center

nicolaus copernicus