Eurasia in the Middle Ages

Question 1

The Middle Ages in Europe lasted from about ________.

Answer 1

500 AD to 1500 AD

Question 2

The term Middle Ages comes from ____________, which is Latin for “middle’ and “age”

Answer 2

medieval

Question 3

During the 800s, the ruler __________ managed to reunite many small new kingdoms into an empire.

Answer 3

Charlemagne

Question 4

Soon after Charlemagne died in 814, a political and military system called _____________ developed.

Answer 4

feudalism

Question 5

True or False

Knights were professional soldiers who were loyal to their lord.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False

A peasant was the ruler of the kingdom.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False

In the manorialism system, at the center of each fief was the lord’s home, called a plantation.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

A ____________ was a person who was allowed to have a house and a plot of land in return of paid rent to their lord.

Answer 8

serf

Question 9

During the High-Middle Ages (1000-1300), the economy of Europe began to grow stronger and a ____________ class began to arise.

Answer 9

merchant

Question 10

During the late Middle Ages, the four powerful kingdoms which developed into nation-states were _____________, ___________, _____________, and _____________.

Answer 10

England, France, Spain, and Russia

Question 11

During the Early Middle Ages, two tribes controlled the kingdom of England. They were the ____________.

Answer 11

Angles and the Saxons

Question 12

_____________ is remembered as a wise and fair ruler because he reorganized the government, wanted to stop corruption, clearly explained the duties of royal officials, set strict penalties of counterfeiting, and outlawed duels.

Answer 12

Louis IX

Question 13

In 1469, Prince Ferdinand and Princess Isabella married and united the kingdoms of ______________.

Answer 13

Aragon and Castile

Question 14

In 1547, ______________ was the Grand Prince of Moscow and became the first to rule all of Russia.

Answer 14

Ivan IV

Question 15

True of False

William of Normandy and his Norman knights killed King Harold and defeated his forces at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False

In the early 800s, Charlemagne was the king of the Franks, a group of people who lived in the region that is now Spain and were ancestors of the Spanish people.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

True or False

The troops of Ferdinand and Isabella defeated the Muslims and Granada and Navarre which ended Muslim control in Spain.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

In the 800s, ______________ defeated Danish invaders and united the regions of England into one Anglo-Saxon country.

Answer 18

King Alfred

Question 19

King John made laws and decrees that angered the nobles because they believed the laws were unfair. In 1215, a group of barons and church officials forced King John to agree to a written document about governing in which he gave up some royal power called the ______________.

Answer 19

Magna Carta

Question 20

The Spanish Inquisition took place in many Christian countries, including __________, __________, and ___________.

Answer 20

France, Germany, and Italy

Question 21

In the 500s, the Byzantine Empire was Christian and controlled the Holy Land. However, in the 600s, __________ conquered the land.

Answer 21

Muslim Arabs

Question 22

The ___________ began in 1095, after the Byzantine emperor asked Pope Urban II for help fighting against the Turks and capturing the Holy Land from Muslims.

Answer 22

Crusades

Question 23

In 1099, an army made up of mostly French and Norman knights attacked __________, an important city in the Holy Land and captured city.

Answer 23

Jerusalem

Question 24

From 1337 to 1453, the Hundreds’ Year War raged between the French and the English, who were fighting over control of _____________.

Answer 24

France

Question 25

True or False

In 1701, a new group of rulers, the Seljuk Turks, took over the Holy Land and began to limit Christian use of religious sites.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False

In 1144, Muslim Turks captured three of the Christian states and threatened the other one. This action started the Second Crusade.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

True or False

During the Hundreds’ Year War, the French won most of the battles.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

Richard III of England, Philip II of France, and Fredrick I of Germany tried to defend the cities of Tyre, Tripoli, and Antioch and they also wanted to recapture Jerusalem. So, they started the ___________ ____________.

Answer 28

Third Crusade

Question 29

After the failed Fourth Crusade, strengthened by their belief in God, thousands of ______________ traveled to the Holy Land in 1212 in an event called the _______________ _______________.

Answer 29

(Poor) Children in and event called the Children’s Crusade.

Question 30

The ______________ used advanced weapons, such as the cannon and by 1453 won the Hundreds’ Year War.

Answer 30

French

Question 31

The ________ armies brought the Black Death to China and then to the rich Italian trading country of Caffa, located in the Black Sea.

Answer 31

Mongol

Question 32

The __________ also known as the Black Death.

Answer 32

bubonic plague

Question 33

Using __________, the Mongols threw dead plague victims over the city walls of Caffa.

Answer 33

catapults

Question 34

A small group of Italian soldiers escaped Caffa and sailed back to _________ taking the bubonic plague with them.

Answer 34

Genoa

Question 35

True or False

The bubonic plague had two forms, one infecting the victim’s blood and the other infecting the victim’s lungs.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False

Many records suggest that the Black Death killed about one-third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or False

The Black Death spread quickly and easily throughout Europe and Asia because of the fleas from infected dogs.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Before the Plague, Europe was still a ____________ society and as the labor force began to shrink, it began to fall apart.

Answer 38

feudal

Question 39

Some people believe that the plague was a punishment form __________.

Answer 39

God

Question 40

The Black Death affected the __________, __________, and __________ systems

Answer 40

social, political, and economic