Fall Break Test Chapter 10

Question 1

Describe a manor

Answer 1

Self sufficient farming estate and primary center for agricultural production

Question 2

Describe the investiture controversy

Answer 2

One major controversy in the church concerned the question of who should appoint bishops and abbots

Question 3

What did the Rus city of Kiev developed as?

Answer 3

A trade center on the Dnieper River

Question 4

What did the eastern Roman Empire become and what power did it have?

Answer 4

Byzantine empire

Religious and political power

Question 5

What religions did the Schism split?

Answer 5

Orthodox and the Catholic Church

Question 6

What was some reasons the Byzantine empire declined?

Answer 6

Territorial loss

Urban centers declined

Question 7

What did Byzantine missionaries spread and where?

Answer 7

Faith and Cyrillic alphabet to Eastern Europe

Question 8

In the west did roman lifestyles replace German ones?

Answer 8

No German replaced roman

Question 9

What empire split their empire into 3 realms?

Answer 9

Carolingians

Question 10

What did society focus more on than the cities?

Answer 10

Manors

Question 11

Why did nobles/rulers grant land to certain people and what were those certain people called?

Answer 11

In return for military power

Vassals

Question 12

Describe Christianity

Answer 12

Focused on pope

Had conflict with Holy Roman Empire

Question 13

What was the end result of the archbishop Thomas à Becket and Henry of England fighting?

Answer 13

Becker dying

Question 14

Where was a monastic reform center?

Answer 14

Cluny

Question 15

Was life in monasteries a religious constant?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What did mo stares provide?

Answer 16

Charitable service and preserved learning

Question 17

Describe Kieran Russia

Answer 17

Trade!!!!
No manorial system
Lords ruled from cities

Question 18

Who established political dominance over the Slavic people?

Answer 18

Varangian traders

Question 19

Where were the centers for Russian principalities?

Answer 19

Kiev and Novgorod

Question 20

Who made orthodox Christianity the main religion Kievan Russia? Did it grow slowly or fast?

Answer 20

Vladimir 1

Slowly

Question 21

What influenced Kievan cities?

Answer 21

Byzantine empire

Question 22

Describe Western Europe after 1000

Answer 22

Population rose

City expanded in size and commercial activity

Question 23

What’s some new technology in Western Europe in 1000s?

Answer 23

Horse collar
Better plow
Started using horses instead of oxens

Question 24

What places took the lead as leading trading centers?

Answer 24

Northern Italy

Flanders

Question 25

What reappeared?

Answer 25

Gold coinage

Question 26

Why did the Crusades start?

Answer 26

Truce of God

Question 27

What did the Crusades want?

Answer 27

Christians to stop fighting each other

Question 28

Where did crusades capture 1st and what did they establish?

Answer 28

Jerusalem

4 principalities

Question 29

What provoked additional crusades?

Answer 29

Muslim counterattacks

Question 30

What did crusades capture 2nd?

Answer 30

Constantinople

Question 31

What did Eleanor of Aquataine promote?

Answer 31

Culture of courtly love

Question 32

What conquered Sicily which was controlled by the Muslims?

Answer 32

Norman who attacked for 3 decades

Question 33

What happened while the Byzantine empire flourished after the fall of Rome?

Answer 33

The Western Europeans lived among the ruins of an empire

Question 34

The Byzantine rulers set prices, controlled grain shipment to the cities, and monopolized trade in luxury goods. What happened with this?

Answer 34

It may have slowed technological development and economic innovation

Question 35

What was a Byzantine achievement in art and architecture?

Answer 35

The Hagia Sophia cathedral

Question 36

What did the battle fought at tours insure?

Answer 36

That the Muslims would not encroach farther into Europe

Question 37

As the Muslims extended their control across Africa and the Middle East what did Western Europe do?

Answer 37

Came to rely on meager local resources

Question 38

Which of the following is true of the medieval times?
1-In many respects the lord of the manor had more direct control than a king did
2-the lack of written law made all justice arbitrary
3-no woman could own land
4-the church administered local law and parish priests sat as judges

Answer 38

1

Question 39

By the 10th century what happened with the office of the pope?

Answer 39

Became more powerful and was at least freed from control of the roman nobles

Question 40

When did Kievan Russia become firmly oriented toward the Byzantine world and turned away from the Muslim world?

Answer 40

Vladimir 1 converted to Christianity

Question 41

What happened as Western Europe began to experience a revival in the period from 1000-1200?

Answer 41

The Byzantine empire and Russia didn’t share in the same revival

Question 42

What happened as two different centers of Christianity developed differing theological viewpoints?

Answer 42

Rome wrote religious books in Latin while the Byzantine wrote them in Greek