Vocab. from Chapter 14
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| 244544103 | Latin West | Historians' name for the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange in the period ca. 1000-1500 | 0 | |
| 244544104 | Black Death | Epidemic form of the bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of Western Europe | 1 | |
| 244544105 | Guild | In medieval Europe, an association of men, such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests | 2 | |
| 244544106 | Gothic cathedral | Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows. | 3 | |
| 244544107 | Renaissance | The revival of learning and culture; The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | 4 | |
| 244544108 | Universities | Degree-granting institutions of higher learning that were formed by guilds of students and teachers. Those that appeared in Latin West from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universities | 5 | |
| 244544109 | Scholasticism | a medieval philosophical and theological system that tried to reconcile faith and reason | 6 | |
| 244544110 | Humanists | People who specialize in studying the humanities, which includes grammar, history, poetry, and rhetoric | 7 | |
| 244544111 | Printing Press | Machine invented by Gutenberg that was used for reproducing written material by pressing paper against arrangements of inked type | 8 | |
| 244544112 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. | 9 | |
| 244544113 | Hundred Years War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. | 10 | |
| 244544114 | New Monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits. | 11 |
