50 Mutiple Choice Questions Flashcards
The Black Death refers to ______.
A virulent plague that struck 14th century Europe
The Black Death_____.
Was preceded by years of famine that weakened the populace.
Generally speaking, the Black Death moved____ through Europe.
North and west
The Black Death found its way into Europe via____.
Italy
The plague barely touched areas ways from major trade routes such as_____.
Russia
Which of the following was thought by contemporaries to have caused the Black Death?
The Jewish community
The Statute of Laborers____.
Limited wages to pre-plague levels.
The French peasant uprising of 1358 is known as the____.
Jacquerie
The Hundred Years’ War took place primarily in ____.
France
The Hundred Years’ War was fought between ____.
England and France
The use of the ____ gave the English the tactical advantage in the war.
Longbows
The treaty of Troyes in 1420 disinherited the legitimate heir to the French throne and proclaimed ____ the successor to the French king, Charles VI.
Henry V
Joan of arc was executed on May 30, 1431 for the crime of ____.
Heresy
The papacy’s law court was called the ____.
Rota Romana
Who reestablished the papacy in Rome in 1377?
Gregory XI
Boniface VIII found himself locked in a struggle over the limits of papal authority with ____.
Philip the Fair
John XXII tried to return the papacy from ____ to Italy.
Avignon
Founded in 1348, the _____ became the center of Czech nationalism and a religious reform movement.
University of Prague
_____ supported the Great Schism.
Charles V
England was opposed in its stance on the Great Schism by ____.
France
In 1409, the Council of Pisa ____.
Deposed both Roman and Avignon popes, and elected a new pope.
Under the rule of Prince Vladimir, what city was the most important in Russia?
Kiev
Wealthy landowners in medieval Russia were known as ___.
Boyars
Between 1243 and 1480, Russia was ruled by ____.
The Mongols
Golden ____ was the names for the segment of the Mongol Empire that includes the steppe region of what is today southern Russia.
Horde
What happened to Europe’s population between 1000 and 1300, and why?
It doubled due to the increased food supply.
The cultural response to the Black Death was ____.
Deep pessimism and a focus on death and dying.
Among the social and economic consequences of the bubonic plague was a ____.
Shrunken labor supply
What social group suffered the greatest decline in power as a result of the Black Death?
Noble landowners
Peasant revolts in the period of the Black Death were triggered by _____.
attempts to reimpose pre-1340s economic conditions.
Which of these was true of the impact of the Schism and the Black Death?
Both had the effect of undermining the church.
What two traditional “containers” of monarchy were put on the defensive after the Black Death?
Landed nobility and the church
Which of these statements best summarizes trends in England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
Royal power centralized and national consciousness grew.
Ultimately, the Hundred Years’ War was about _____.
French sovereignty
The primary reason for early French failure in the Hundred Years’ War was _____.
internal disuntiy
What was the impact of the Treaty of Troyes on the French?
It was largely ignored, and was therefore insignificant
The burden of the Hundred Years’ War fell mostly on the _______.
peasants
The price of the papacy’s greater centralization of authority was ______.
declining popular support
Which of the following statements most aptly applies to the bull Ausculta fili?
The church has authority over the state.
The papal bull Unam Sanctam declared that ______.
temporal authority was subject to the spiritual power of the church
Which of the following was recognized by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges?
The right of the French to regulate ecclesiastical appointments and taxation in their country.
Which of the following religious movements was most successful at assailing that late medieval church in England?
Lollards
The work of John Wycliffe most resembled that a of _____.
John Huss
The phrase “Babylonian Captivity” refers to ______.
The period of papal residence in Avignon
What finally resolved the Great Schism?
the Council of Constance
The broadest social divison in 11th century Russia was between ______.
Freemen and slave
Which of the following statements best characterizes the Mongol treatment of Russian political and religious institutions?
They left them largely intact
The plague’s impact on towns can be characterized as ______.
Positive in the long run
Defender of Peace, written by Marsilius of Padua, depicted the pope as _____.
Subordinate to secular rulers
Which of these provoked the Hundred Years’ War?
An English claim to the French throne
