AP World History Chapter Ten Vocab. Flashcards

140202826	Bernard of Clairvaux	Emphasized role of faith in preference to logic; stressed importance of mystical union with God; successfully challenged Abelard and had him driven from the universities.	0
140202827	Geoffrey Chaucer	English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)	1
140202828	Hanseatic Leagues	An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.	2
140202829	guilds	Associations of workers in the same occupation in a single city; stressed security and mutual control; limited membership, regulated apprenticeship, guaranteed good workmanship, discouraged innovations; often established franchise within cities.	3
140202830	three estates	The three social groups considered most powerful in Western countries; church, nobles, and urban leaders.	4
140202831	investiture	Practice of state appointment of bishops; Pope Gregory VII attempted to ban the practice of lay investitures, leading to war with Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.	5
140202832	Roger Bacon	great medieval scientist; English monk and philosopher, said thinkers were neglectign science; he predicted boats w/out oars, airplanes	6