Middle Ages Test

Question 1

Receives land in exchange for military service (feudal)

Answer 1

vassal

Question 2

Why was feudalism created?

Answer 2

to protect subjects

Question 3

Code of conduct for knights

Answer 3

chivalry

Question 4

The church withdrew many of their rights

Answer 4

nuns

Question 5

He stated that only the Church could appoint its officials

Answer 5

Pope Gregory VII

Question 6

Opposed Pope Gregory VII

Answer 6

King Henry VII

Question 7

Monks who traveled and preached gospels

Answer 7

friars

Question 8

Who the idea of city charters came from

Answer 8

Muslim merchants

Question 9

Claimed the right to try clergy in royal courts

Answer 9

Henry II

Question 10

Effects of the Black Death

Answer 10

1. Killed 1/3 of Europe
2. Led to an increase in wages and prices throughout Europe
3. Trade suffered
4. Wars were temporarily abandoned

Question 11

Required that the every vassal pledge allegiance to him above everyone else

Answer 11

William the Conqueror

Question 12

King John was forced to sign this to appeal to the nobles

Answer 12

Magna Carta

Question 13

A type of architecture known for its tall spikes and stained glass windows

Answer 13

gothic

Question 14

An event that allowed the French to expand their power

Answer 14

Hundred Years’ War

Question 15

The everyday language for ordinary people

Answer 15

vernacular

Question 16

Young peasant girl who led the French to victory in the Hundred Years’ War

Answer 16

Joan of Arc

Question 17

Center of the feudal economy

Answer 17

the manor

Question 18

Agricultural system based on the rotation of crops and fields

Answer 18

3-field system

Question 19

Had supreme power over all political leaders

Answer 19

pope

Question 20

Time period where there were two popes – one in France and one in Italy

Answer 20

the Great Schism

Question 21

King who fought with Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket over trying church officials in royal courts

Answer 21

King Henry II

Question 22

She married two kings, participated in the Crusades and was mother to Richard the Lion-hearted and John.

Answer 22

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 23

He fought for the pope against the
Albigensians in addition to leading France

Answer 23

Phillip II

Question 24

What was Joan of Arc tried and executed for?

Answer 24

witchcraft

Question 25

Series of wars fought over access and control of the Holy Land between Christians and Muslims

Answer 25

the Crusades

Question 26

Who led the third crusade for the muslims?

Answer 26

Saladin (Salah-aldin)

Question 27

What is a fief?

Answer 27

a land grant given to vassals

Question 28

How were feudal social classes determined?

Answer 28

prestige and power

Question 29

Describe feudal social classes

Answer 29

nobles and knights, men and women of the church, and peasants (mostly serfs)

Question 30

What is a serf?

Answer 30

a peasant bound to the land he was born on, but was not a slave

Question 31

Where did the produce made by the serfs go?

Answer 31

their lords

Question 32

What did serfs receive from their lord?

Answer 32

housing, farmland, and protection (they were self-sufficient)

Question 33

What is lay investiture?

Answer 33

the practice by which the royal power could appoint Church officials

Question 34

What was the Concordat of Worms?

Answer 34

an agreement where the Church could appoint its own officials, but the emperor had the power to veto it

Question 35

What were the Crusades about?

Answer 35

control over the Holy Land

Question 36

Who won the Crusades?

Answer 36

the Muslims

Question 37

How did the Crusades begin?

Answer 37

called for by Pope Urban II after Alexius Comnenus (Byzantine emperor) requested help to fight off the Seljuk Turks

Question 38

Effects of the Crusades

Answer 38

1. a - Muslim distrust of Christians/xenophobia/religious intolerance b - Muslim property and lives destroyed/Jewish books and synagogues destroyed c - No more Byzantine Empire 2. a - Trade now flourishes/spread of culture b - Popes gained power c - Traveling brought awareness to existence of other lands (India)