AP Modern European History ID Set Two
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charlemagne | lived from 742 to 814 AD, he was crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD, he valued learning and helped spread education |
| ghetto | the section of towns where the Jewish citizens were forced to or chose to live in, it was walled off from the rest of the town usually |
| Reconquista | 're-conquest,' the retaking of Spain from the Muslims by Christian armies, these campaigns were supported by the pope |
| Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen | this was the name of the city that served as the capital city for the reunited Western Europe |
| Alcuin | a great scholar of the time period, he was the leader of a palace school, he copied books and trained teachers |
| Great Schism of 1054 | the official split between the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in the East |
| tallage | the 'head tax' that the towns were required to pay based on their population |
| serf | peasants that could not be sold, but they were tied to the land, they would work land for a lord or master |
| King John of England | king who signed the Magna Carta at the end of a conflict that was a result of high taxes |
| Magna Carta | document signed by the king that acknowledged that the king and the government were under the law and to obey as well |
| mystery plays | religious dramas, were common during this period and took place at church |
| Cluny | strict, reforming group of monastics, they placed them selves directly under the control of Rome, their example stopped many corrupt practices of other monastics |
| Gregory VII | he opposed lay investiture, he ended up excommunicating Henry IV over this, he instituted the vow of celibacy and criticized society |
| College of Cardinals | group of Cardinals responsible for selecting the new pope, this was instituted by Nicholas II, this institution quickly became corrupt |
| Henry IV | Holy Roman Emperor, opposed the pope on the issue of lay investiture, he is excommunicated and ends up begging the pope for forgiveness |
| investiture controversy | the disagreement between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV over the involvement of secular figures in the ordination of church leaders |
| Innocent IV | tried to stamp out the heretic Albigensians by having a crusade against them |
| Bologna | the main university of law |
| Salerno | the university of medicine |
| Paris | the university of Notre Dame, the theological center, there Abelard was a teacher |
| Abelard | probably the most esteemed teacher of the day, taught at the university in Paris |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | called the 'dumb ox,' however he was brilliant, Dominican, people realized that he was so brilliant when he led a debate at university as a substitute, influenced the style of philosophy held by the Church until Vatican II |
| scholastic method | ??? |
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