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Due: Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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Chapter 15
Reading Guide
Revival of Empires, Church and Towns
Directions: Read Chapter 15 and complete the following reading guide.
1) Who was Otto I?
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How did he revive the Holy Roman Empire?

2) What is the Cluny Reform Movement?

a. What was the relationship of the reform movement to the Papacy?
3) How did the Investiture Controversy weaken the Holy Roman Empire?
a. Who is Gregory VII?
b. Who is Henry IV?
b. What is the Concordat of Worms?
4) The Early Crusades
a. What inspired the 1 Crusade?
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b. What is the significance of the 4 Crusade?

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5) Towns and Townspeople

a. What events led to the rise of the medieval town?
b. What is a charter?
c. What was the role of merchants in the town? What is a guild?
d. What was the model of government in a town?
e. How did Kings benefit from the rise of the town?
f. How did universities develop in Europe?
g. What is scholasticism?

Society in the later Middle Ages

6) What were the three basic social groups in medieval society?
7) How and why did the Higher and Lower nobility evolve?
8) Why did the nobility decline in the late Middle Ages?
9) What is the regular clergy?
10) What is the secular clergy?
11) What were the taxes levied on serfs by lords?
12) What two basic changes occurred on manners in the later middle ages?
13) How successful were peasant/serf revolts in the Middle Ages?
14) Describe the lives of medieval women.
Growth of National Monarchies
15) How did England and France Develop strong royal governments in the 13 Century?
a. What was the significance of the Battle of Hastings?
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b. Define the Magna Carta and its significance.

16) Describe the role of Philip II Augustus in unifying France.
17) How did Louis IXs reign serve as a model for systems of government in the modern period?
18) Why did Germany and Italy fail to unite in the later middle ages?
19) What were the preconditions leading to the Black Death?
20) What were the social and economic consequences of the Black Death?

Ecclesiastical Breakdown and Revival

21) What was the relationship of Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair?
22) What was the Great Schism?
23) Define Curia.
The Renaissance
24) Define the Renaissance?
25) How did social and political conflict influence in Italian City States help to shape the Renaissance in
Europe?
26) Define humanism and studia humanitatis.
27) Who are Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio?
28) Describe the characteristics of Renaissance art.
29) What were the contributions of da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo to Renaissance culture?
30. Define mannerism.
31. What were the political theories of Machiavelli?
What was the basis for the Rise of modern Sovereign States in the 15 Century?
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32) How was medieval Russia liberated and unified?

33) What were the two cornerstones in French nation building in the 15 Century?
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34) Describe the roles of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spanish unification.

35) How did the Tudors come to power in England?
36) Describe the policies of Henry VII.

Summary: What was reborn in the Renaissance?