Quiz 1

Question 1

When was the 1st Crusade called and when did it begin?

Answer 1

It was called in 1095 AD and began in 1096 AD.

Question 2

What was going on in the 13th Century?

Answer 2

Mendicates: Movements in 1200s (Chastity, Poverty, Obedience).
Growth of nationhood.

Question 3

Who caused the murder of Thomas Beckett and what was his family tree?

Answer 3

Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine and had two sons, Richard the Lionhearted and John.

Question 4

What land did Henry II have?

Answer 4

He had England by birth and had France from marrying Eleanor.

Question 5

What is Lay Investiture?

Answer 5

A king appointing his own bishops so he has power over the Church.

Question 6

Henry II appointed Thomas Beckett as archbishop of where?

Answer 6

Canterbury.

Question 7

When was Thomas Beckett an archbishop?

Answer 7

1162 AD - 1170 AD.

Question 8

What does Henry II and Thomas Beckett have a conflict about?

Answer 8

The civil vs. ecclesiastical court system.

Question 9

Thomas Becket leaves Canterbury to stay safe from the tension from Henry II, and he return when?

Answer 9

December 29th, 1170 AD.

Question 10

What were the 4 consequences of Thomas Beckett’s death?

Answer 10

1. Henry II lost a friend/advisor.
2. Rebellions began in the north.
3. Eleanor and her 2 sons reveled against Henry.
4. Henry loses credibility in Rome.

Question 11

What is a guild?

Answer 11

A corporation within a community.

Question 12

What were the two advancements in the Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 12

1. Letting a field lie fallow.
2. The moldboard plow.

Question 13

What was the Commercial Revolution?

Answer 13

Certain regions/nations/kingdoms began specializing in certain goods.

Question 14

What is a University?

Answer 14

An intellectual guild.

Question 15

What and when was the first university?

Answer 15

Bologna (1154 AD).

Question 16

What was the Liberal Arts according to the Romans?

Answer 16

The skills a man needed to know to be free.

Question 17

What were the Liberal Arts according to the Greeks?

Answer 17

Trivium:
1. Grammer.
2. Logic.
3. Rhetoric.
Quadrivium:
4. Arithmetic (number).
5. Geometry (space).
6. Music (number in time)
7. Astronomy (number in space and time).

Question 18

What was offered at a Cathedral?

Answer 18

Theology (most important class).

Question 19

Who was Pope Innocent III?

Answer 19

Born in 1160 AD, made pope in 1198 AD, and died in 1216 AD.
He approved the Franciscans and the Dominicans.
He reformed the Curia (body of men who helped elect the pope).
Called the Albigensian (belief that all matter is bad) Crusade in France.

Question 20

What happened to John (son of Henry II) in 1202 AD?

Answer 20

Philip II of France saw that John was financially weak, and so he stripped John of his lands in France that were once his father’s. John could not, at the time, fight back due to his lack of money and power.
He then began to pressure monks in Canterbury to obey him, and he gets excommunicated by Pope Innocent III, and his only penance is to make England a fief of Rome.

Question 21

What was the hierarchy of the population of people during that time?

Answer 21

King - Duke - Baron - Count (altogether was 10% of the population) - Serfs/Peasants (the other 90% of the population).