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Chapters 1-6
About towns, romanesque and gothic styles, The Renaissance, Dante, Chaucer, Petrarch, Shakespeare and more.
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History
7th Grade
12/13/2013

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Traders
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The first people to settle into towns.

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What did traders want?
Definition
To have a permanent place to settle. Somewhere safe, by a fortress, a main road, or water.
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In the biblical veiw of history, world begens with what?
Definition
Creation
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What was a "Poor Man's Bible"?
Definition
Stained glass windows that told the bible stories, so that the people that couldn't read would know the bible.
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What event marked the beginning of the Dark Ages?
Definition
Fall of Rome
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Which contributed to more people living in towns, rather that castles toward the end of the Dark Ages?
Definition
The growth in trade and in population.
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Wealthy merchants traveled with a document that held their money on it. They got it from the bankers. What was that document called?
Definition
Letter of  Credit.
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The people of the town kept on asking the lord (owner of the land) for what document?
Definition
Town Charter.
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Barter
Definition
To exchange goods for other goods.
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Money Changer
Definition
Someone that you would go to if you the change from a nother town.
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The word bancas means what?
Definition
bank.
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What did a guild do?
Definition
Made a certian amount of something like shoes, and they regulated price, quanty, and quality.
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What are the levels of becoming a craftsman and which group tended to travel more? Which was a member of a guild?
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Levels:

apperntice, journeyman, master.

journeyman

master.

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What happened at a guild hall during the Middle Ages?
Definition
Friends would gather and play games, Parade floats would be designed, feasts would occur,the sick and elderldy would be taken care of, Community meetings occurred.
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What disease killed up to half of Europe during the 1300s?
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Black Death
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What reigion were most Europeans during the late Middle Ages?
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Roman Catholic.
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What special order of monks were sent out to care for the sick and poor in the cities and towns?
Definition
Friars.
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Towns displayed their devotion to God by spending decades and much wealth building what?
Definition
Cathiedrails.
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Romanesque style had what features?
Definition
small windows, thick walls, not much light/damp.
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Gothic style had what features?
Definition
flying buttresses, stained glass windows, thin walls, pointed arches, bright and airy, higher ceilings.
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What was the peoples life like in the Medieval?
Definition
sad and lots of death.
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What was the way of thinking in the Renaissance?
Definition
happy.
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Was a Renaissance man talented in some or all areas?
Definition
all.
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What were at least, 4 things that a Renaissance man would be good at?
Definition
math, art, poetry, reading. there are also more.
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What was a Renaissance man's favorate subject to study?
Definition
man.
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What was the emphasis on man and his abilities called?
Definition
Humanism.
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What did people see a need for?
Definition
learning.
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Philosophy, art, history, grammer, literature, and speach were called what?

 

Definition
the Humanities.
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What was a vernacular?
Definition
native languages for people for a specific language. German for Germany ect.
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Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
Definition
Dante
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Who wrote Canterberry Tales?
Definition
Chaucer
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What play that Shakespere wrote is the most famous?
Definition
Romeo and Juliet.
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Heretics were often put on trial by the...
Definition
inquision
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What artest made the Mona Lisa?
Definition
Leonardo Da Vinchi.
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Who was the person that painted in the Sistine Chapel?
Definition
Michangelo.
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