Notes- Chapter 14

Section-3

1. The Black Death was a plague that killed almost 1/3 of the population.
2. The time of the Black Death were very unhealthy and unclean times.
3. Waste was dumped into the gutter and the rats ate the waste so the rates picked up the disease and passed it to people.
4. Some entire villages and towns were wiped out by the plague.
5. During the Black Plague many peasants stages upbringings because there were so few of them to do the work they could demand more money.

Section-4

1. Vernacular languages- languages spoken everyday that varied from place to place
2. Troubadours- traveling singers who wrote poems about love and chivalry
3. Dante Alighieri- was a medieval writer, wrote "The Divine Comedy"
4. Geoffrey Chaucer- medieval writer that wrote "The Canterbury Tales" a group of stories from the view of the pilgrims
5. Scholasticism- attempt to bring together faith and reason
6. Peter Abelard- a philosopher of scholasticism taught in Paris in 1100
7. Thomas Aquinas- a monk of the Dominican order, the greatest medieval philosopher
8. Gothic- a word for a style unliked, taken from the barbarian Goths

Section 5-

1. In 1328 the last male member of Frances Capetian dynasty died
2. Edward II claimed the French throne
3. In 1337, Edward brought an army to Flanders hoping to gain control of the rich trading area
4. By 1453, France controlled all of French lands except Calais
5. Many new weapons were introduced during this war such as the long bow,  gun powder, and cannons
6. Castle walls no longer protected the kings from danger because of all the new weapons
7. Besides lost of land the Hundred Year War