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Rise of Commerce and Towns, pages 143-149
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burgs
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towns that sprang up beside fortresses
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burghers
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made up the middle class
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guilds
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an early form of trade unionism
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Hanseatic League
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a confederation of northern German towns that attempted to monopolize the entire commerce of northern Europe
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Flanders
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where one of the earliest industries was located
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Romanesque
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an architectural style characterized by thick walls and small windows with rounded arches
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Gothic
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an architectural style characterized by tall walls with many pointed windows and the use of steeples
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Notre Dame
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a cathedral in France which is perhaps the best example of Gothic architecture
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Medici family
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A leading banking family
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Black Death
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a form of bubonic plague that killed 25 million people approximately a third to half of Europe's population
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Salerno
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the first medieval university founded in 1060
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Oxford
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founded in 1140; where John Wycliffe was an official
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University of Prague
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the oldest German university
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trivium
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the grammar, rhetoric, and logic part of the medieval curriculum
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quadrivium
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the arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy part of the medieval curriculum
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scholasticism
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an attempt to combine Greek philosophy with Romanism
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Said "I believe in order to understand."
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Anselm
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said "A doctrine is not to be believed because God has said it, but because we are convinced by reason that it is so."
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Peter Abelard
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Thomas Aquinas
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known as the "Dumb Ox" because of his slow speech
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Thomism
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denied the totality of man's sinful nature and his dependence upon God for everything
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William of Ockham
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used scriptural logic to ague that man is totally depraved and in absolute need of divine revelation and saving grace
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John Wycliffe
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began the first translation of the English Bible; The morning star of the Reformation
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Roger Bacon
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an English Franciscan friar who emphasized observation and experimentation
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Lollards
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John Wycliffe's followers known as "poor preachers"
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Bohemia
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where the modern Czech republic is located
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John Huss
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influenced by Wycliffe's writings and was burned at the stake for standing for the authority of the Bible
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Hussites
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Followers of John Huss that printed the first non-Catholic hymnbook in modern history
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Gerhard Groote
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founded Brethren of the Common Life
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Savonarola
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a Roman priest who exposed hypocrisy in his own church
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Thomas A Kempis
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Wrote the Imitation of Christ
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Dante
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wrote Divine Comedy
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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wrote Canterbury Tales
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