AP WH Book: The Earth and it's People
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| 257179149 | 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 | |
| 257179150 | Three-Field System | A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe. | 1 | |
| 257179151 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast number of persons. | 2 | |
| 257179152 | Water Wheel | A mechanism that harness the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery. It was used in many parts of the world but was especially common in Europe from 1200 to 1900. | 3 | |
| 257179153 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in norther Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. | 4 | |
| 257179154 | Guild | In medieval Europe, and association of men (rarely women_, such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. Guilds were alos important in other societies, such as the Ottoman and Safavid empires. | 5 | |
| 257179155 | 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. | 6 | |
| 257179156 | Renaissance (Europe) | A period of intense artisitic and intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture. Usally divided into an Intalian Renaissance, from roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century, and a Norther (trans-Alpine) Renaissance, from roughly the early fifteenth to early seventeenth century. | 7 | |
| 257179157 | Universities | Degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Those that appeared in Latin West from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universitites. | 8 | |
| 257179158 | Scholoasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomans Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.. | 9 | |
| 257179159 | Humanist (Renaissance) | Amorite ruler of Babylon (1792-1750 BCE) He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. | 10 | |
| 257179160 | Priting Press | A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450. | 11 | |
| 257179161 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Roman and Avignon. | 12 | |
| 257179162 | Hundred Years War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. | 13 | |
| 257179163 | 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. | 14 | |
| 257179164 | Reconquest | Beginning in the elevent century, military campaigns by various Iberian Chrisitain state to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms. | 15 |
