The Hundred Years' of War and the Plague

Reading Guide: 
1. The Great Schism occurred after the death of Pope Gregory XI when both Clement VII and Urban VI became pope and tried to excommunicate the other. This lead to the split known as the Great Schism.
2. The Schism was ended when all three popes were forced to resign in 1414.
3. People began to ignore papacy and preach that the pope was not the head of the Church but the head was instead Jesus Christ.
4. The plague began in Asia. It was spread through a traveling fleet in 1347 that was carrying the plague and spread it to Sicily which later spread to all of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, England, Europe and North Africa.
5. Town populations fell, trade declined and prices rose, serfs left the manor to find better wages, nobles fiercely resisted peasant demands for higher wages and caused revolts in England, France, Italy and Belgium, Jews were blamed for bringing the plague and were driven from their homes or killed.
6. The Church suffered a loss of prestige when its prayers failed to stop the onslaught of the bubonic plague and priests abandoned their duties.
7. Edward III wanted the throne as grandson of Phillip IV and launched a war for it.
8. Once Charles VI died, Henry V would take the thrown.
9. A feeling of nationalism emerged in England and France, the power and prestige of the French monarch increased, and the English suffered period of internal turmoil known as the War of the Roses

 Assessment: 
Avignon - a city in France
Great Schism - a division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes were established in Avignon and in Rome
John Wycliffe - 
Jan Hus - a professor in Bohemia
bubonic plague - a deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people
Hundred Years' War - a conflict in which England and France battled on French soil on and off from 1337 to 1453
Joan of Arc - a teenage French peasant girl who had visions and heard voices of what she believed were the saints

 2. The Hundred Years' War had the biggest impact because it brought the people closer together once the war was ended. 

 3. The Great Schism was a division in the Roman Catholic Church when two popes wanted the power for themselves. 

 4. Because of the bubonic plague, the town populations fell, trade declined and the serfs were leaving their manor to find better wages. 

 5. She drove England from France and was told to give the French crown to France's true king, Charles VII, son of Charles VI. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Northern Renaissance

Reading Guide:  1. Population beginning to grow, the Hundred Years War ended, Urban merchants became wealthy enough to give patronages to artists, England and France had strong leaders, Humanist ideas spread to north after scholars, students and merchants visited Italy.  2. More books could be printed at once and they were more affordable.  3. He was a famous Northern Renaissance artist who often used woodcutting along with Italian Renaissance techniques. He also portrayed many religious subjects.  4. He was a Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting.  5. He was a painter that captured scenes of life such as large crowds of peasants.  6. He was a Dutch humanist and theologian.  7. He was an English humanist that wrote Utopia.  8. He was an English poet and play writer and was considered to be one of the greatest writers of the English language.  Assessment:...
Read more

The Black Death Timeline

1346 The strain of Y. pestis appears in Mongolia and is possibly passed to humans by a tarabagan. King Janiberg and his army contract the disease after laying siege for a year. May, 1347 The survivors of the siege in Caffa escape by sea and leave dead bodies on the streets. On ship arrived in Constantinople and gets infected, which loses 90 percent of its population. October, 1347 A Caffan ship docks in Sicily with their crew barely alive. The plague kills half the population in Sicily and moves to Messina. When citizens flee, they spread it to Italy. The plague kills 1/3 of the population in Italy by summer. November, 1347 Another Caffa ship brings the plague to France by docking in Marseille. January, 1348 Another plague strain enter Europe through Genoa by another Caffan ship. The Genoans attack the ship and it leaves but the Genoans are still infected. Italy has to deal with the second strain while still facing the first. Y. pestis goes from Sicily into h...
Read more

Pandemics That Changed History: Leprosy

Image
1. A pandemic is a disease that is prevalent over a whole country or all over the world. An epidemic is a widespread of an infectious disease in a community at a certain time.  2. The disease I chose was leprosy. Leprosy is a slow developing bacterial disease that causes sores and deformities. It was believed to be a punishment from God that rain in families.  3. The earliest reference to leprosy was in India in about 600 B.C.  4. Some symptoms of leprosy are lighter skin than usual; patches of skin that feel pain and heat; muscle weakness; numbness in the hands, feet, legs and arms and eye problems. It spreads through nasal secretions.  5. Europe was hit the hardest my the pandemic.  6. The mortality rate of leprosy is 2.5 deaths/1,000 population.  The below map shows the different recent cases of leprosy in the world. 
Read more