Dark Ages, Fuedalism, and Renaissance TEST Flashcards
When was the fall of Rome?
476 A.D
Literacy rate in the dark ages:
1%
What city was the center of the Italian Renaissance?
Florence
The capital of the eastern half of Rome was:
Constantinople
The eastern half of Rome was called:
Byzantine
The two longest rivers in the Western Europe are:
Rhine and Danube
The three biggest Mountain ranges in Western Europe are:
The Alps, Pyrenees, and Urals
In order from top to bottom, what does the FUEDAL hierarchy triangle look like?
Monarch, vassal, knight, and serf
Name three reasons why it is called the Dark Ages:
Bad times, 1% literacy rate, no artifacts
Name three Germanic tribes:
Answers vary, but: Huns, Angles-Saxons, and Burgundinns are three.
The first-born son inheriting the wealth was:
Primogeniture
Thinking about your thinking and learning is:
Metacognition
Physical features of the land are:
Topography
Mr. D calls it Manorialism, historians called it:
Feudalism
Wars between Christians and Muslims were called:
Crusades
A highly contagious disease spread by fleas on rats was called:
Black Death or Black Plague
An armed soldier on horseback was called:
Knight
The rebirth of learning was The:
Renaissance
The spread of elements from one culture to another is:
cultural diffusion
Priests, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals are:
clergy
Ten percent of one’s income paid to the church was known as:
tithe
the architect who designed and built the dome on the Florence cathedral. (Santa Maria del Fiore or ll Duomo)
Brunelleschi
the Frankish king who brought about the end of the Dark Ages.
Charlemagne
The most famous of all Renaissance artists who also was an engineer, sculptor, and inventor.
Leonardo da Vinci
