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This is a fill in the blank practice test. If you get a word that is close but not exact, it still counts. If you disagree with an answer, send me a message and ask me about it. Answers are at the end. This test was written by myself for my own practice, but answers were taken from my notes.

• The ­________________ was caused by torrential rains which ruined crops, and diseased cattle and sheep (1315-1322).
• A typhoid epidemic called the ________________ spread quickly across Europe.
• Severe weather, which historical geographers label the “______________”
• Poor harvests probably meant that marriages had to be postponed.

• The ____________ carried the plague. It’s disputed, but it may have originated in Southeast _____________, or ____________, or _________________. In any case, the plague eventually reached _____________, from which the plague could easily reach the Mediterranean islands and ___________.

• Low ___________ (the filth and human waste in the streets).
• Temporary __________ such as colds lowered resistance.
• Close ___________.

• As ­­­­­­­­­­________ people died, there were _____ people who could work. This made the demand for labor to go ___.
• As the demand for labor went ____, the peasantry called for _________ wages.

• An assembly of ____________ barons said that “No woman or her ____ could succeed to the monarchy.”
• The barons passed the crown on to _____________ of France.
• Edward III believed that France had violated the _______________.
• Edward III upset the ____________ order in France.
• The _____ trade between England and France.
• ________ won the war, but in both countries the __________ suffered and had to pay taxes to pay for the war.

• ___________ played an important role.
• The three Ps: ___________, Patriotism, _________.

• Urban VI, an _______, was elected as pope. Several cardinals declared Urban’s election invalid because they had been _________ by a Roman mob. They then elected Clement VII so then there were two popes. Finally, a conclave elected Martin V as pope, making them three.
• The ______ between popes weakened the faith of many Christians.

• The ________ king didn’t like the idea of representative assemblies. Groups of ___________ posed a threat to a king’s power.

• The belief that the _________ of the Church could be best achieved through periodic __________, or general councils, representing all _________ people.
• Conciliarists said that while the ______ was head of the church, they held that the pope derived his power from the _________ _________ __________..

• On the whole, their lives were ________ than they ever had been or would be for several years.
• Wages increased.

• _________ tensions
• Ethnic groups ________ in some guilds.
• Fear of ____________ led to attacks and murder
• Apprentices and journeymen were __________ from highest positions.

• A time when ____ in four crops were poor, _________rains ruined crops, and animals _________ to death.
• Caused a(n) ___________susceptibility to disease.

• The bacillus that caused the __________ __________.
• Named after Louis __________.

• An attempt to ________ wages and the _________ mobility of peasants.

• __________, or common languages, such as English, used in literature rather than Latin.

• Groups of people who worked together to produce a ________ product.
• Provided members with ________ security.
• Limited _____________.

• Law attempting to ­­­­­­­­­­­__________ intermarriage and _______racial purity.
• Occurred in ­­­­­­­­­­­­______________
• Forbid marriages between ­__________ and __________.
• Required the use of the ­___________ language.
• _________ Irish access to ecclesiastical (church) offices.

• A series of __________, _________ actions, and all-out battles.
• Between _________ and England.

• Church is subordinate to ________.
• Church (circle one) should/should not own property.
• Authority in church should rest in a _______ ________ consisting of laymen and priests and superior to the pope.

• English ___________ defeated French crossbowmen.
• Edward the Black Prince captured _______ king.
• Henry V gained the field, overcoming _______numbers.

• Elected pope by council at Constance which ended the _______ ________.

• ________ peasant girl.
• Believed _____ was talking to her.
• Saved the French monarchy by causing _______ point in the war.

• __________’s followers.
• Allowed _______ to preach.

• Consisted of _______ and burgesses.
• One of the two houses of the English ________________.

• _________ king during the Hundred Years’ War.

• Bohemian/________ reformer.
• Inspired by _________.
• Church should own no __________.
• Authority in church should rest in a ________ council.

• The reception of both bread and wine in the __________ church.

• A writer who lived in ___________.
• She wrote _______ and books on love, _______, and morality.

• Author of Divine Comedy.
• In his book he describes the next world: hell, __________, and paradise.

• Wrote the Canterbury Tales.
• He describes life in ________ in the 14^th century.
• Was an official in the administrations of King _________ III and Richard II.

• Wrote in the _______ vernacular.

• ____ sets of laws developed.
• _________ people remained subject to their traditional laws
• _________ wee subject to the laws from where they came.

• ________ often arranged marriages.
• Women were married when ____ to ____.
• Men married when ____ to ____.
• There was (____) divorcing.

• ______ society was coming to an end.
• Monarchs were beginning to ________ their power.
• ______-states began to emerge.
• New _______ tactics changed warfare. _______ became less important. Professional armies with _____ soldiers became standard.

• The ________ _______ and the plague caused many to question their beliefs in God.
• The Crusades, the Babylonian Captivity, and the _______ __________ weakened the power and prestige of the church.
• Papal and church ________ inspired reformers like Wyclef and Hus who paved the way for the _________ ____________.