A | B |
Epidemic | outbreak of a rapid-spreading disease |
long bow | weapon used during the Hundred Years War that gave England an early advantage over the French |
Black Death | an epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed one third of Europe’s population |
Jan Hus | “a Bohemian reformer who believed that the bible should be written in the vernacular he was burned at the stake |
Inflation | rising prices |
Hundred Years’ War | war fought between the English and French over the French throne and English land in France |
Joan of Arc | French peasant woman who rallied French troops in the Hundred Years War |
John Wycliffe | an English reformer who believed that the bible should be written in English (or vernacular) so that the common man could read it |
Pope Clement V | pope who move papacy to Avignon |
Babylonian Captivity | period of time from 1309-1378 when the papacy was moved from Rome to Avignon France |