| A | B |
| How has the relationship between the monarchs and the Church changed? | They are now competing for power |
| What happened to the Holy Roman Empire after the death of Charlemagne? | It dissolved into a number of separate states |
| Type of emperor who claimed authority over much of central and eastern Europe, including parts of France & Italy | German |
| Even though the nobels and Church officials were vassals of the emperor... | they held the real power |
| lay investiture | term for monarchs appointing Church officials within their own realms |
| practice that Popes like Gregory VII tried to end because they saw it as outside interference from secular leaders | lay investiture |
| How long the struggle over lay investiture lasted | 50 years |
| Concordat of Worms | 1122 |
| Agreement between Church and monarchs that only the Chuch could appoint bishops, bur emeror could invest them with fiefs | Concordat of Worms |
| Country German emperors struggled with popes to control in the 1100s and 1200s | Italy |
| This happened as a result of the German emperors struggle to control Italy | the German nobels became more and more powerful, so it took another 600 years to unify Germany |
| Country the Italian popes turned to for help against the German emperors | France |
| How long the power struggles in Italy & Sicily lasted causing chaos in that region | 200 years |
| Pope Innocent III | Claimed the pope had supremacy over all other rulers. |
| term for forbidding an entire region, town or kingdom from being part of the Roman Catholic Church | interdict |
| term for forbidding an individual from being part of the Roman Catholic Church | excommunication |
| Said, "The pope stands between God and man, lower than God but higher than man, who judges all and is judged by no one" | Pope Innocent III |
| Groups who gained power as the Church lost it after the death of Innocent III | English & French monarcies |