Chapter 9 - The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The plow of the Mediterranean and Near ________ worlds had been the aratrum, a nonwheeled, light scratch plow made mostly of wood that was sufficient to break the top layer of the light soils of those areas.

The ________, with its towers soaring to- ward heaven, gave witness to an age when a spiritual impulse still underlay most of existence.

In the ________, Irnerius, a great teacher of Roman law in Bologna, attracted students from all over Europe.

The carruca, a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plow- share, came into widespread use by the ________.

The first European university was founded in Bologna, ________, and coincided with the revival of interest in Roman law, especially the rediscovery of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis.

A(n) ________ at the beginning of the fourteenth century estimated that the woolen industry in Florence produced 80, 000 pieces of cloth a year and employed 30, 000 men, women, and children, usually at pitiful wages.

The watermill and windmill were the most ________ for harnessing power before the invention of the steam engine in the eighteenth century.

Although the watermill had been invented as early as the second century ________, it did not come into widespread use until the High Middle Ages.

The ________ in northern France collapsed in 1284 after reaching the height of 157 feet.

The ________ enabled cities and towns to become important centers for manufacturing a wide range of goods, such as cloth, metalwork, shoes, and leather goods.

________ operated by capitalist entrepreneurs in seventeen principal centers in northern Europe, mostly in Flanders, produced most of the woolen cloth used in northern Europe.

The first fully ________ was the abbey church of Saint- Denis near Paris, which was built between 1140 and 1150 at the inspiration of Suger, the famous abbot of the monastery from 1122 to 1151.

In the twelfth century, ________, a great teacher of Roman law in Bologna, attracted students from all over Europe.

The ________, with its towers soaring to- ward heaven, gave witness to an age when a spiritual impulse still underlay most of existence. The first fully ________ was the abbey church of Saint- Denis near Paris, which was built between 1140 and 1150 at the inspiration of Suger, the famous abbot of the monastery from 1122 to 1151.

The ________ were the most important devices for harnessing power before the invention of the steam engine in the eighteenth century.