Medieval world

Question 1

What is the Curia?

Answer 1

The Curia became the “college of cardinals” created to select a pope

Question 2

What is primogeniture?

Answer 2

The right of an eldest son to succeed to the estate of his father at the exclusion of all his siblings

Question 3

What is simony?

Answer 3

Simony is the buying and selling of spiritual or church benefits

Question 4

What was Charlemagne’s empire?

Answer 4

Established his rule over much of the former Roman Empire in Europe

Question 5

Who were the Vikings?

Answer 5

Norsemen who made their home in Scandinavia

Question 6

What type of relationship is feudalism?

Answer 6

Political relationship

Question 7

Feudalism structure

Answer 7

• Lord: grants land (fief) to the vassal
• Vassal: ensures law/order on the fief he received

Question 8

Manorialism relationship type

Answer 8

Economic relationship

Question 9

What happens in manorialism

Answer 9

Serfs lived on the lord’s manor

Question 10

Where was the Holy Roman Empire centered?

Answer 10

In the German states and northern Italy

Question 11

What did William the conqueror do? Who is he and who is he not?

Answer 11

He became King of England

He is not Holy Roman Emperor

He is a ruler in France and England

Question 12

What concepts are related to the investiture struggle?

Answer 12

Simony and primogeniture

Question 13

What were crusaders motivated by?

Answer 13

By the desire to earn salvation

Question 14

Results of the crusades

Answer 14

Increased conflict between eastern and western churches

Question 15

What is an indulgence?

Answer 15

“An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin “

Question 16

Who was pope Innocent III?

Answer 16

Likely the most powerful pope

Question 17

What did the Magna Carta imply?

Answer 17

The law is above the king

Question 18

What was the Black Death?

Answer 18

Combination of bubonic and pneumonic plagues

Question 19

What was the Black Death plague like?

Answer 19

Episodic

Question 20

Black Death cause

Answer 20

A bacterium

Question 21

What was the result of the Great Western Schism?

Answer 21

One pope in Rome, one in Avignon

Question 22

Solution to the western schism

Answer 22

The conciliar movement

Question 23

What is a conciliar movement?

Answer 23

A universal council, representing the entire church

Question 24

What did the conciliar movement achieve?

Answer 24

The conciliar movement eventually ended the RCC multi-pope dilemma

Question 25

Significance/results of the Hundred Years‘ War

Answer 25

Established England and France as clearly distinct nations

Question 26

Who won the war of roses?

Answer 26

Henry Tudor won the war

Question 27

What is the Reconquista? (re-conquest)

Answer 27

A “crusade” designed to oust Muslims who had invaded Spain

Question 28

Renaissance meaning

Answer 28

French word meaning “rebirth”

Question 29

Aspects /facets of the Renaissance

Answer 29

Humanism

Secularism

Individualism

Question 30

Why did Renaissance take place?

Answer 30

Italian leaders possessed disposable income for patronage (sponsorship) of the arts

Question 31

Where did Renaissance take place?

Answer 31

Florence (Firenze) is best identified as the cultural center or “heart” of Renaissance life

Question 32

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 32

“Renaissance man” (multi-talented)

Question 33

Desiderius Erasmus (important for exam maybe)

Answer 33

Dutch scholar

Referred to as the “Prince of Humanists”

Question 34

Niccolo Machiavelli (important for exam maybe)

Answer 34

Wrote “the Prince”

Question 35

Michelangelo

Answer 35

He paints the Sistine chapel ceiling

Question 36

Where did the Renaissance expand?

Answer 36

The Renaissance moved across the Alps