Medieval Civilization, Renaissance, Reformation

Question 1

signed the Magna Carta in 1215

Answer 1

King John

Question 2

The Great Charter; document of rights that limited the king’s power signed by King John in 1215

Answer 2

Magna Carta

Question 3

land given to a vassal

Answer 3

fief

Question 4

a man who served a lord in a military capacity

Answer 4

vassal

Question 5

a practice in which secular leaders gave the symbols of their office to church officials they had chosen

Answer 5

lay investiture

Question 6

a medieval court whose job was to find and try heretics

Answer 6

Inquisition

Question 7

an agricultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasants

Answer 7

manor

Question 8

a business association, or association of craftspeople in the Middle Ages

Answer 8

guilds

Question 9

Christian Humanists believed what?

Answer 9

they believed in the ability of human beings to reason and improve themselves

Question 10

system, principles, and customs of knighthood

Answer 10

chivalry

Question 11

founded a community of monks that established the basic form of monasticism in the Catholic Church

Answer 11

Saint Benedict

Question 12

invaded England, soundly defeating King Harold’s forces at the Battle of Hastings

Answer 12

William of Normandy

Question 13

a revival of learning and culture

Answer 13

Carolingian Renaissance

Question 14

were legally bound to the land upon which they worked and lived

Answer 14

serfs

Question 15

literature written in the language of everyday speech in a particular region

Answer 15

vernacular

Question 16

the growth of farming villages, the heavy-wheeled plow, the use of horses

Answer 16

Results of agricultural improvements

Question 17

french woman who wrote in the vernacular about women’s rights, in essence

Answer 17

Christine de Pizan

Question 18

dominican priest who tried to stop the influence of the Renaissance in Florence; eventually burned at the stake himself

Answer 18

Girolamo Savonarola

Question 19

helped end the war by leading French forces to victory at a fort city near Orleans

Answer 19

Joan of Arc

Question 20

founded the Society of Jesus; also known as the Jesuits

Answer 20

St. Ignatius de Loyola

Question 21

wrote the Book of the Courtier

Answer 21

Baldassare Castiglione

Question 22

Middle Age vernacular languages

Answer 22

french, italian, and german

Question 23

expansion of trade in the Middle Ages

Answer 23

allowed the Plague to spread quickly throughout all parts of europe