Chapter 10, Section 4, The Late Middle Ages The Black Death The Plague Spreads

1. Chapter 10, Section 4, The Late Middle Ages The Black Death The Plague Spreads How was the bubonic plague spread? What routes did it follow? What was the estimated death count? Social and Economic Impact What group of people were accused of spreading the plague? What is that hostility called? What were the economic problems created by the plague? What were the positive outcomes of the plague? Turning point- Effects of the plague List the disadvantages mentioned in the first paragraph. List the negative, immediate effects, in the second paragraph. Is an increased standard of living bad? How did the plague improve the standard of living? How did the plague weaken manoralism and feudalism? Make sure you include why the lords had to give more rights to people. Summarize why the peasants and townspeople revolted.

2. How did some Catholics respond to church corruption? Decline of Church Power The Popes of Avignon Between what two men did the Great Schism begin? Why is Avignon important in this conflict? The Great Schism Summarize which pope stayed in Rome, what did the popes do to each other? How did they solve the Great Schism? Who is John Hus? What happened to him? What/who accused him? The hundred years’ war The war begins What countries were involved? List England’s advantages at the beginning of the war. Crecy and Agincourt

3. List why these battles important? Joan of Arc How did she motivate the French? What was the French military Advantage at the end of the war? Political Recovery France, England, Spain and Central, Eastern Europe What are the monarchies created in the period called? What happened to the French? What is a taille? What happened to the English? What happened to the Spanish?

4. Who was more powerful? Isabella or Ferdinand? Why are the Spanish called the “most Catholic?” Central and Eastern Europe What happened to the Germans? Family? What happened in Poland and Hungary? What happened in Russia?