European History Flashcards

4829479836	The Great Famine	The result of four years of potato crop failure in the late 1840's in Ireland, a country that had grown dependent on potatoes.	0
4829479837	The Black Death	A plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps one-third of the population.	1
4829479838	Flagellants	People who believed that the plague was God's punishment for sin and sought to do penance by flagellating (whipping) themselves.	2
4829479839	The Hundred Years' War	A war between England & France from 1337 to 1453, with political & economic causes & consequences.	3
4829479840	Representative Assemblies	Deliberative meeting of Lords and wealthy urban residents that flourished in many European countries between 1250 & 1450.	4
4829479841	Babylonian Captivity	The period from 1309 to 1376 when the popes resided in Avignon rather than in Rome. The phrase refers to the seventy years when they the Hebrews were held captive in Babylon.	5
4829479842	The Great Schism	The division, or split, in church leadership from 1378 to 1417 when there were two, then three, popes.	6
4829479843	Conciliarists	People who believed that the authority in the Roman church should rest in a general council composed of clergy, theologians, and laypeople, rather then the pope alone.	7
4829479844	Confraternities	Voluntary lay groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood, or charitable activity.	8
4829479845	Jacquerie (zhah-kuh-REE)	A massive uprising by French peasants in 1358 protesting heavy taxation.	9
4829479846	English Peasants' Revolt	Revolt by English peasants in 1381 in response to changing economic conditions.	10