1) What is clergy?

2) Why do you think people left land to the church when they died?

3) What is a religious order?

4) Why do you think monks and friars owned no property?

5) Why were the first universities created?

6) How did teaching university classes in Latin help international relationships?

7) How did Thomas Aquinas think understanding natural law could help people?

8) What is a cathedral?

9) How did gothic churches differ from earlier churches?

10) How did the church influence art and architecture?

1) How did habeas corpus affect the rights of citizens?

2) Under magna carta, who had to obey the law?

3) Why was the signing of magna carta so important?

4) How did magna carta affect the way kings ruled outside of England?

5) What changed the course of the hundred years' war?

6) Why do you think fighting the English created a bond between the king and nobles in France?

7) Where in Europe did the black death first appear?

8) Which do you think had the greatest effect in Europe-the hundred years' war or the black death, why?