AP World ch. 14 vocab Flashcards

107069896	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.	0
107069897	three-field system	A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. replaced previous system in medieval Europe.	1
107069898	Black Death	An outbreak of Bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons.	2
107069899	water wheel	A mechanism that harnesses 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
107069900	Hanseatic League	An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.	4
107069901	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. Also important in other societies, such as the Ottoman and Safavid empires.	5
107069902	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
107069903	Renaissance (European)	A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture. Divided into Italian ___ and Northern ____.	7
107069904	universities	Degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Those that appeared in Latin West from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universities.	8
107069905	scholasticism	A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.	9
107069906	humanists (Renaissance)	European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy, influential in the fifteenth century and later.	10
107069907	printing press	A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. (movable type)	11
107069908	Great Western Schism	A division in the Latin Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon.	12
107069909	Hundred Years War	series of campaigns over control of the throne in France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families.	13
107069910	new monarchies	Historians' term for the royalties in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits.	14
107069911	reconquest	Beginning in the 11th century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.	15