The Latin West Flashcards

Adapted from "The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History," 5th ed., Chapter 14

292035950	Latin West	the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange	0
292035951	three-field system	a rotational system for agriculture in which two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow	1
292035954	Black Death	an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century	2
292035955	water wheel	a mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery	3
292035957	Hanseatic League	an economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany	4
292035959	guild	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	5
292035962	Gothic cathedrals	large churches originating in twelfth century France	6
292035963	Renaissance	a period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture	7
292035965	universities	degree-granting institutions of higher learning	8
292035967	scholasticism	a philosophical and theological system devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy in the thirteenth century	9
292035969	humanists	European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities	10
292035971	printing press	a mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woordblock or type to paper using ink	11
292035973	Great Western Schism	a division in the Latin Christian Church when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon	12
292035975	Hundred Years War	series of campaigns over control of the throne of France	13
292035977	new monarchies	the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450-1600	14
292035979	reconquest of Iberia	beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims	15