Question

Select all that apply. What took place during the fourteenth century (1300s)? Great Schism Great Famine Black Plague Battle of Tours invention of the printing press Protestant Reformation

Answer 1

The answer is B, and C.

Answer 2

The correct answers are A) Great Occidental Schism and C) the Black Death.

The events that took place in the 14th century(the 1300s) were the Great Occidental Schism and the Black Death.

The Western Schism or the Great Occidental Schism of 1378 divided the Catholic Church. The problem started when the papacy that was located in Avignon, France, returned to Rome in 1377 with Pope Gregory XI. The Black Death was a mortal plague that killed almost 200 million humans in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The plague was one of the most devastating moments in the history of the old continent.