Module 1:Birth of the Modern World, (1200-1400) GN

Civilization

The process by which a society or place reaches, an advanced stage of social development and organization

Monotheism

The belief and only one God

Feudalism

System of government, in which local lords governed their own lands, but owned military service, and other support to a greater Lord

Manor

During the middle ages in Europe, a lord’s estate which included one or more villages in the surrounding lands

Serfs

In medieval Europe, a peasant bound to the lord’s land

Magna Carta

“The Great Charter” approved by King John of England, in 1215, which limited royal power, and establish certain rights of English Freeman

Parliament

The Legislature of England, and later Great Britain

Crusades

A series of wars from the 1000s through 1200s in which European Christians tried to win control of the holy land from Muslims

Holy Land

Jerusalem

Black Death

An epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 1300s

Reconquista

During the 1400s the campaign by European Christians to drive the Muslims from present-day Spain

Sultan

A Muslim ruler

Devshirme

The Ottoman practice of forcefully recruiting Christian children from the Balkans and incorporating them into Ottoman society, often to be raised as bureaucrats or soldiers

Millet System

Ottoman law which allow people of a different background or faith to follow the laws of their faith

Janissary Corps

Elite Ottoman soldiers

7 characteristics of a civilization

Well organized government, complex religions, job specialization, social class, arts and architecture, public works, and writing.

3 major religions

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

The Crusades were ordered by…

Pope Urban ||

The Black Death was caused by…

Fleas on rats.

How many people died from the Black Death?

2.5 million

The Ottoman Empire is what religion?

Muslim

The next sultan is chosen by…

The most equipped son of the current sultan.

The Grand Vizir

The sultan’s right-hand man

The capital of the Byzantine Empire which was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453

Constantinople

Country that won 100 years war

France

Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile ruled this country in the 1400s

Spain