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Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, 4e
Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Virginia
Barry S. Strauss, Cornell University
Duane J. Osheim, University of Virginia
Kristen B. Neuschel, Duke University
William B. Cohen, Indiana University
David D. Roberts, University of Georgia
Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University
Chapter 11: Crisis and Recovery in Late Medieval Europe, 1300 - 1500
Review Questions

  1. What caused the Great Schism? What consequences did it have for the reputation of the Catholic Church?

  2. What led to the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War? How did the war shape the development of English and French government and society?

  3. What factors led to the rise of city-states in Italy? How would you explain the comparatively urban nature of Italian society in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

  4. What conditions made the rapid spread of the plague possible? How did Europeans respond to the devastation it caused?

  5. What were the most important innovations in trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? What role did trade play in Europe's economy?

  6. Why did Ferdinand and Isabella order the conversion or expulsion of Spain's Jews? What were the economic and social costs of their order?



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