Chapter 7

Question 1

Who’s Benedict?

Answer 1

Benedict is a monk who organized a monastery in central Italy.

Question 2

How did the Church spread Christianity?

Answer 2

Sent missionaries

Question 3

What do dishops manage?

Answer 3

Large churches called cathedrals

Question 4

What vows did nuns and monk take?

Answer 4

1. Obedience to the abbot or abbess who headed the monastery or convent
2. Give up all worldly possessions.
3. Chastity and purity

Question 5

What is Papal States?

Answer 5

A Pope that ruled vast lands in Italy

Question 6

What does the pope head?

Answer 6

clergy, high-ranking church members and influenced political affairs

Question 7

What did Christians believe that without sacraments?

Answer 7

Everlasting suffering after death

Question 8

What penalties did the Church give?

Answer 8

Excommunication and Interdict

Question 9

What is byzantine?

Answer 9

Controlled the Churches affairs and appointed the patriarch

Question 10

What was the language of the Church?

Answer 10

Greek

Question 11

Eastern Orthodox Church

Answer 11

The Byzantine church

Question 12

Result of the Great Schism

Answer 12

Churches, popes, and patriarchs all excommunicated each other at one point or another

Question 13

Who’s at the top of the power structure?

Answer 13

The monarch

Question 14

What’s after the monarch

Answer 14

Lords

Question 15

What was under lords

Answer 15

Vassals

Question 16

Chivalry required knights to be:

Answer 16

brave, loyal, and true to their word as well as fight fairly

Question 17

Sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic Church

Answer 17

sacrament

Question 18

Rules drawn up in 530 by Benedict, a monk, regulating monastic life. The rule emphasized obedience, poverty, and chastity and divides the day into periods of worship, work, and study

Answer 18

Benedictine Rule

Question 19

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters; nonreligious

Answer 19

secular

Question 20

The claim of medieval Popes that they had authority over all secular rulers

Answer 20

Papal supremacy

Question 21

Body of laws of a church

Answer 21

Canon law

Question 22

Exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church law

Answer 22

Excommunication

Question 23

A medieval European monk who traveled from place to place preaching to the poor

Answer 23

Friar

Question 24

The official split between Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 1054; another event was the Great Western Schism, a period when rival popes fought for exclusive power and divided the Roman Catholic from 1378 - 1417

Answer 24

Great Schism

Question 25

Loosely organized system of government in which local governed their own lands but owned military services and other support to a greater lord

Answer 25

Feudalism

Question 26

In medieval Europe, a lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord

Answer 26

Vassal

Question 27

In medieval Europe, an estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty

Answer 27

Fief

Question 28

Heiress to the dukedom of Aquitaine

Answer 28

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 29

Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages

Answer 29

Chivalry

Question 30

A wandering poet or singer of medieval Europe

Answer 30

Troubadour

Question 31

Economic system built around large estates called manors

Answer 31

Manor system

Question 32

A peasant bound to the lord’s land

Answer 32

Serf