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1
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which germanic tribe did much to shape the culture of post-Roman Europe?

a) Saxons
b) Lombards
c) Celts
d) Franks

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d) Franks

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Who became king of the Frankish tribe in 481?

a) Merovech
b) Pepin II
c) Clovis
d) Charles Martel

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c) Clovis

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Whose coronation marked the end of the Merovingians and the beginning of the Carolingians?

a) Merovech
b) Pepin III
c) Clovis
d) Charles Martel

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b) Pepin III

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Whose confirmation strengthened Pepin III’s rule and legitimacy?

a) Charles Martel
b) The Patriarch of Constantinople
c) The Pope
d) Charlemagne

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c) The Pope

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Who was Pepin III’s son?

a) Merovech
b) Pepin III
c) Clovis
d) Charlemagne

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d) Charlemagne

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True or False: The Franks alliance with the church made the church weaker.

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False

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True or False: Charlemagne was a devout Christian.

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True

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True or False: Charlemagne brought order, civilization and learning to barbarian Europe in the 800s

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True

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Which Pope placed a crown on Charlemagne’s head and declared him “Emperor of the Romans”?

a) Leo II (2)
b) Leo III (3)
c) Peter
d) Benedict III

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a) Leo III (3)

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What is the title of the officials who governed the regions in Charlemagne’s empire?

a) Governor
b) Prince
c) Count

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c) Count

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True or false: Charlemagne had an excellent formal education.

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False

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What was Charlemagne’s favorite book?

a) the Bible
b) Confessions
c) City of God
d) The Republic

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b) Confessions

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True or false: Charlemagne’s empire lasted long after his death

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True

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True or False: Muslims were the most feared invaders of Western Europe in 800s and 900s

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False

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True or False: the Vikings reached the new world long before Columbus

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True

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What were the 2 characteristics that shaped relationships during the middle ages:

a) Loyalty
b) Theology
c) Business
d) Service

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a) Loyalty

d) Service

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True or False: Feudalism was the economic structure of the Middle Ages

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False

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What was the dominant political organization know as during the 900s in Western Europe?

a) Feudalism
b) Manorialsim
c) Primogeniture
d) Kingdoms

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a) Feudalism

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What is the term for the person who granted land in the Medieval political system?

a) Vassal
b) Primogeniture
c) Lord
d) Knight

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c) Lord

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What is the term for the person who received land in the Medieval political ?

a) Vassal
b) Primogeniture
c) Lord
d) Knight

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a) Vassal

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What is the term used to describe the inheritance from father to eldest son?

a) Vassal
b) Primogeniture
e) Fief
d) Knight

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b) Primogeniture

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True or False: Kings were bound by obligations in the feudal system.

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True

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What invention forced knights to change their armor?

a) gunpowder
b) silk
c) chivalry
d) bow and arrow

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a) gunpowder

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Which of the following was not a common way that a feudal tribal was decided?

a) Oath taking
b) battle
e) payment
d) ordeal

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b) battle

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True or False: most Western Europeans lived in self sufficient communities during the middle ages.

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True

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True or False: the Lord usually kept more than half of the land for his domain.

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True

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What is another name for a medieval peasant?

a) vassal
b) fief
c) slaves
d) serf

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d) serf

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True or False: the Medieval castle was luxurious by today’s standards

29
Q

What was the code of conduct that developed during the Middle Ages?

a) feudalism
b) manoralism
c) chivalry
d) primogeniture

A

c) chivalry

30
Q

What did a squire do?

a) write for a lord
b) take care of the knight’s horses and equipment
c) hunt for a fief
d) send messages for a king

A

b) take care of the knight’s horses and equipment

31
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How were knights identified on the field of battle?

a) the color of their armor
b) the style of their armor
c) their coat of arms
d) their horses

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c) their coat of arms

32
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True or False: knights extended chivalry to all classes of people.

33
Q

What stood in contrast to the short lived kingdoms which rose and fell in the early middle ages becoming the enduring institution of medieval Europe?

a) Islam
b) Byzantium
c) the church in Rome
d) The feudal system

A

c) the church in Rome

34
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True or False: The church played a major role in the economy during the Middle Ages?

35
Q

True or False: the church owned a lot of land during the Middle ages.

36
Q

Why did the monks and nuns withdraw from the world?

a) to devote their time to God
b) to copy the Bible
c) to avoid temptations to live the Christian life
d) to avoid people because they did not like them

A

a) to devote their time to God

37
Q

What is the name of the communities that monks lived in?

a) Diocese
b) State
c) congregation
d) Monasteries

A

d) Monasteries

38
Q

Who took the gospel to Ireland in 432?

a) Pope Leo III
b) Saint Benedict
c) Alfred the Great
d) St. Patrick

A

d) St. Patrick

39
Q

What place became the center of the Christian church in England?

a) York
b) London
c) Rome
d) Canterbury

A

d) Canterbury

40
Q

True or False: The Roman Church during the Middle Ages had great political and social influence but stayed out of economics

41
Q

What is excommunication?

a) When someone is not allowed to attend church
b) when someone is formally cut off from the church and not allowed to receive the sacraments
c) all churches in that region would be closed and the clergy would be forbidden to perform sacraments
d) buying a high position within the church

A

b) when someone is formally cut off from the church and not allowed to receive the sacraments

42
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What does interdict mean?

a) When someone is not allowed to attend church
b) when someone is formally cut off from the church and not allowed to receive the sacraments
c) All churches in that region would be closed and the clergy would be forbidden to perform sacraments
d) buying a high position within the church

A

c) All churches in that region would be closed and the clergy would be forbidden to perform sacraments

43
Q

What were people who denied the church’s principles called?

a) Heretics
b) Inquisition
c) Simony
d) Bishops

A

a) Heretics

44
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True or False: Divorce was permitted by the Roman Church.

45
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What is an inquisition?

a) To buy church offices
b) to turn the people against a ruler
c) to excommunicate a specific person
d) to search for heretics

A

d) to search for heretics

46
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Which of the following was not one of the three primary groups or people engaged in the power struggle in England and France?

a) Kings
b) Knights
c) Nobles
d) Church leaders

A

b) Knights

47
Q

Who ruled England and most of Scandinavia as a combined kingdom in 1016?

a) Alfred the Great
b) Edward the Confessor
c) King Canute
d) William the Conqueror

A

c) King Canute

48
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Who defeated Harold’s Anglo Saxon army at Hastings in 1066?

a) Alfred the Great
b) Edward the Confessor
c) King Canute
d) William the Conqueror

A

d) William the Conqueror

49
Q

What two cultures combined in England after William the Conqueror’s conquests?

a) Anglo Saxon
b) Frankish
c) Norman

A

a) Anglo Saxon

c) Norman

50
Q

What political system did William bring to England?

a) Manorial
b) Feudal
c) Monarchy
d) Democracy

A

c) Monarchy

51
Q

True or False: All English lords were vassals to William.

52
Q

What is the name of the book where tax records were kept?

a) Tax Bible
b) Doomsday Book
c) Conqueror’s book
d) None of the above

A

b) Doomsday Book

53
Q

Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered for not allowing his clergy to be tried in Henry’s royal courts?

a) Edward the Confessor
b) Thomas Becket
c) Eleanor of Aquitaine
d) Gregory VII

A

b) Thomas Becket

54
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What actions led English nobles to unite against King John and sign the Magna Carta?

a) sending the kings royal court to dispense justice
b) sending out royal commissioners
c) allowing feudal lords to pay a tax instead of sending an army which allowed him to pay a loyal army
d) Demand on nobles to pay more taxes to support his wars in France

A

d) Demand on nobles to pay more taxes to support his wars in France

55
Q

True or False: The Magna Carta only protected English nobility.

56
Q

True or False: Popes today have a much greater political influence than they did during the middle ages

57
Q

What was the name of the Muslim people that gained control of central Palestine in the late 1000s?

a) Crusaders
b) Byzantines
c) Egyptians
d) Seljuq Turks

A

d) Seljuq Turks

58
Q

At what point did the Byzantine Emperor call on the pope for help?

a) When the Turks captured Jerusalem
b) When the Turks threatened Constantinople
c) As soon as the Pope agreed to rectify the split of 1054

A

b) When the Turks threatened Constantinople

59
Q

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that made it difficult for the crusaders to reach Palestine?

a) wool and leather garments in the heat
b) heavy armor in the heat
c) lack of food and water because they did not have enough pack animals
d) Lack of Byzantine help

A

d) lack of Byzantine help

60
Q

What was the main target city of the crusades?

a) Jerusalem
b) Cairo
c) Byzantium
d) Baghdad

A

a) Jerusalem

61
Q

What happened to Jews and muslims when the First Crusade captured Jerusalem?

a) massacre of Muslims and Jews
b) they were allowed to leave
c) they were allowed to stay in the city and practice their own religion
d) The were forced into slavery

A

A)massacre of Muslims and Jews

62
Q

When did the Turks seize Constantinople marking the collapse of the Byzantine Empire?

a) 711
b) 1095
c) 1453
d) 1492

63
Q

True or False: The Children’s Crusade reached the Holy Land

64
Q

What was the goal of the Crusades?

a) Take Holy Land from the Turks
b) kill muslims
c) take Holy land from Byzantine Empire
d) none of the above

A

True or False: The Children’s Crusade reached the Holy Land

65
Q

What was the weapon of choice for European soldiers during the Crusades?

a) sword
b) Crossbow
c) greek fire
d) Mace

A

b) Crossbow

66
Q

True or false: The crusades stunted the future development of trade and economic growth in Western Europe.

67
Q

What is the Hanseatic League?

a) a group of religious organizations
b) a group of manufacturing organizations
c) A group of connected German trade cities
d) a group of connected Italian trade cities

A

c) A group of connected German trade cities

68
Q

When the goods and services are exchanged for other goods and services without the use of money it is called

a) a market economy
b) Barter economy
c) usury
d) capital

A

b) Barter economy

69
Q

Which of the following was not an important business development during the Middle Ages?

a) manufacturing
b) banking
c) investing
d) printing

A

d) printing

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