Chapter 12

Question 1

What term refers to a piece of agricultural land controlled by powerful armed men?

Answer 1

Fief

Question 2

What structure served to protect land from attackers but also served as a base of control and
extortion of a land’s people?

Answer 2

Castle

Question 3

Who was the central figure of castles?

Answer 3

Knight

Question 4

Who were the bourgeois?

Answer 4

Middle Class

Question 5

All of the following were agricultural improvements in eleventh century Europe EXCEPT

Answer 5

Mechanical reaper

Question 6

What was the name given to the five highest ranking bishops who ran the church via separate
geographic regions?

Answer 6

Patriarchs

Question 7

The split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church is known as the

Answer 7

Schism

Question 8

During the Twelfth Century Renaissance, Cathedral Schools began to teach all of the
following EXCEPT

Answer 8

Mathematics

Question 9

What English document started to limit the king’s power and created traditions such as a
council called parliament?

Answer 9

Magna Carta

Question 10

The movement to reconcile Christian theology with human reason through the use of logic
was called

Answer 10

Scholasticism

Question 11

The Reconquista was an effort by Christian kingdoms to reconquer what region from Muslim
rule?

Answer 11

Spain

Question 12

The Crusades were an effort by Christian kingdoms to retake what region from Muslim
control?

Answer 12

Jerusalem