Transcript Regents Review Live

Final Exam Review
Part 3
9th Grade
Global History and Geography
Ms. Marten
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Medieval Europe (500-1500)
• lord provided fiefs (land) in exchange
for loyalty and services of vassals
(knights)
• LAND = MONEY $$$
• decentralized government-NO strong
central government
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Medieval Europe-Feudalism
• Manors=Lord’s estate
*self-sufficient
economic units of
the Middle Ages
• Every manor had
a church
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Feudalism—Japan and Europe
• No social mobility
• King and Emperor only figureheads
• Japan—merchants were viewed as having
little social status
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Feudalism—Japan and Europe
• Feudalism developed because there
was no strong central government in
Japan and Europe
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Medieval Europe-Catholic Church
• CONTROLLED EVERYTHING!
• Unified people, gave them a sense of
security and common bond (A church
was found on every manor)
• Secular—the church was involved in
secular (non-religious) matters
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Medieval Europe-Catholic Church
• Gothic cathedrals—Stained glass, flying
buttresses, vaults and pointed arches
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Medieval Europe-Catholic Church
• Excommunication—controlled people
through threat of banishment from church
(including kings)
• Education—monks
illuminated (copied) books
and provided education at monasteries
• Canon law—Church laws
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Medieval Europe-Catholic Church
• Crusades—Holy Wars—In 1096,
Pope Urban II called for knights to
join war to win back Jerusalem
from the Muslim Turks
• Promised any knight who died in
Crusades would be guaranteed a
place in heaven (Pope = power)
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Decline of Feudalism
• Effects of the Crusades:
1. New ideas- Arabic, Greek and
Roman learning and awareness of
other cultures lead to the
Renaissance
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Decline of Feudalism
• Effects of the Crusades:
2. Increased demand for Eastern
goods (silk, spices, teas)
3. Increase in trade
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Decline of Feudalism
• Effects of the Crusades:
4. Increase in trade leads to growth
in cities
5. Growth in cities leads to
breakdown of feudalism and the
manor system
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Decline of Feudalism
• Black Death(Bubonic Plague):13481353
1. Rats with fleas carried the
disease from Asia
2. Entered Europe on trading
ships
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Decline of Feudalism
• Effect of Black Death:
1. Killed 1/3 of population (25
million people)
2. Loss of faith in Catholic Church
and decrease in power of the
pope
3. Serfs could demand higher wages
in cities due to labor shortages
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Renaissance (1350-1650)
• Rebirth in art and learning in Europe
• Spurred on by returning crusaders from
the Byzantine Empire
• Started in Italian city-states located on
the Mediterranean Sea (Venice and
Florence)
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Renaissance (1350-1650)
• Johann Gutenberg—invented the
printing press—helped ideas spread
quickly
• Humanism—new philosophy which
focused on the individual uniqueness
and achievement
*People began to question traditional
authority (Catholic Church)
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Renaissance (1350-1650)
• Art:
–Michelangelo: Painted Sistine Chapel
Ceiling
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Renaissance (1350-1650)
• Art:
–Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance
Man—skilled in a wide variety of areas
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