Quarter 2

Question 1

What was the trait that the Code of Chivalry was most concerned with?

Answer 1

Loyalty

Question 2

Who were the most likely to live in a town in Western Europe during the Middle Ages?

Answer 2

Merchants

Question 3

What was a “Burgher”?

Answer 3

Merchant-leaders of towns in the Middles Ages

Question 4

What was the Hanseatic League?

Answer 4

Allied group of towns and cities in Central Europe

Question 5

What invention raised Gothic Architecture to new heights?

Answer 5

Flying butress

Question 6

Who was the famous Norman conqueror who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

Answer 6

William

Question 7

What was Lindisfarne?

Answer 7

A monastery - the first major raid of the Vikings

Question 8

Why did Prince Vladimir I convert to Christianity?

Answer 8

No diet restrictions

Question 9

Where do we get the name “Russia”?

Answer 9

Land of the red (hair)

Question 10

Which Pope called for the First Crusade in 1095?

Answer 10

Urban II

Question 11

What Crusade saw the Christians attack Constantinople? (a Christian city!)

Answer 11

4

Question 12

In 1097, Christian forces conquer the Holy Land and set up what?

Answer 12

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Question 13

What creature was responsible for the spreading of the Black Death?

Answer 13

Ticks

Question 14

Where were the first areas to be hit by the plague?

Answer 14

Italy

Question 15

What is the estimate of deaths to Europeans as a result of the Black Death?

Answer 15

1/3 of Europe

Question 16

What does the word “Byzantine” mean?

Answer 16

Complex arrangements

Question 17

What event forced Justinian to rebuild Constantinople?

Answer 17

Sport fans rioted and destroyed the city

Question 18

What was NOT a power that the Pope possessed?

Answer 18

Appoint the heirs of ruling kings

Question 19

Which was true of Charlemagne?

Answer 19

Broad and strong, an imposing figure

Question 20

What is meant by a period of “interregnum”?

Answer 20

Time with no ruling king

Question 21

What did the Magna Carta ultimately do for the people of England?

Answer 21

Expanded rights to the growing Burgher (commoners) class

Question 22

How was Joan of Arc killed?

Answer 22

Burned at the stake

Question 23

Who did Queen Isabella marry? (thereby unifying Spain)

Answer 23

Ferdinand

Question 24

What city tried to sell itself as the “third Rome”?

Answer 24

Moscow

Question 25

How did many Western Europeans think the Jews were poisoning them?

Answer 25

Poisoning the wells

Question 26

In the Decameron, Boccaccio describes the story of ten people fleeing Florence. What are they fleeing?

Answer 26

The plague

Question 27

What does the Magna Carta say?

Answer 27

No one is above the law

Question 28

In the 3 field system, what did it mean to be “fallow”?

Answer 28

Left alone

Question 29

What is the practice of giving all possessions to an eldest son called?

Answer 29

Primogenture

Question 30

What 2 nations fought in the Hundred Year’s War?

Answer 30

France and England