AP World History (Development in Europe) Flashcards

7651992067	Byzantine Empire	was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople	0
7651992068	Orthodox Christianity	refers to the set of doctrines which were believed by the early Christians. A series of ecumenical councils	1
7652038821	Justinian's Code	collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from ad 529 to 565	2
7652040956	Hagia Sophia	was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica church, then later changed to a mosque then a museum	3
7652044541	Roman Catholic Church	has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity	4
7652049742	Great Schism of 1054	vent that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches	5
7652049743	Vladimir	common Russian name that is way too vague thx Mr. Stauffer	6
7652051886	Battle of Tours	was fought by Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles Martel against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi	7
7652053363	Charlemagne	as King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united much of Europe during the early Middle Ages	8
7652053364	Holy Roman Empire	was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806	9
7652055534	Vikings	people who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries	10
7652057060	Feudalism	was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries	11
7652057061	Nobles	is a social class, normally ranked immediately under royalty	12
7652057062	Vassals	a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch	13
7652060547	Serfs (peasants)	A member of the lowest feudal class, legally bound to a landed estate and required to perform labor for the lord of that estate	14
7652060548	Fiefs	was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fee	15
7652060549	manors	an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron	16
7652065158	Three-field system	a regime of crop rotation that was used in medieval and early-modern Europe	17
7652065159	Code of Chivalry	is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220	18
7652068827	Primogeniture	the state of being the firstborn child.	19
7652071606	Hanseatic League	was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe	20
7652071607	Crusades	were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period	21
7652074524	Heresy	is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs	22
7652076278	Pope Innocent III	was one of the most powerful and influential popes. He exerted a wide influence over the Christian states of Europe, claiming supremacy over all of Europe's kings	23
7652077909	Scholasticism	the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities	24
7652077910	Black Death	was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia	25
7652080671	William the Conqueror	was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087	26
7652083328	Magna Carta	is a charter to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons	27
7652083329	Joan of Arc	is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War	28
7652086163	Hundred Years' War	was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet	29
7652091603	Isabella & Ferdinand of Spain	was Queen of Castile. She was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their marriage became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson	30
7652091604	Spanish Inquisition	was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition	31
7652094670	Ivan the Terrible	was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then "Tsar of All the Russias" until his death in 1584	32