World history 7/8

Question 1

Chivalry

Answer 1

Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages

Question 2

Crusades

Answer 2

A series of wars in which the European Christians tried to win control of the holy land form Muslims

Question 3

Manga Carta

Answer 3

The Great Charter approved by King John of England

Question 4

Knights

Answer 4

Men trained from boyhood to ride horseback, fight and care for weapons

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

The vows are a part of a new political and legal system

Question 6

Troubadours

Answer 6

Wandering musicians who often sang about knights and ladies

Question 7

Reconquista

Answer 7

Christian kingdoms in Spain begin a struggle in a reconquest

Question 8

Serfs

Answer 8

Most peasants on manors who were bound to the land

Question 9

Inquisition

Answer 9

Launching a brutal campaign against Muslims and Jews

Question 10

Decline in Western Europe

Answer 10

Political unrest divided the area rural and cut off from large advanced civilizations

Question 11

Waves of invaders

Answer 11

Slows trade,large cities emptied, classical learning ceased

Question 12

Medieval culture

Answer 12

Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian traditions blended together to form a new civilazation

Question 13

Germanic Kingdoms

Answer 13

Conquered Western Roman Empire

Question 14

What did the people in the Germanic Kingdom turn to?

Answer 14

Farming and herding

Question 15

What 4 things happen during the Germanic kingdom?

Answer 15

No large cities or written laws
Small communities governed by local couscous
Kings were elected
Warriors were loyal to weapons and plunder

Question 16

What is the most organized and successful German Kingdom?

Answer 16

The Franks

Question 17

What are the four Germanic kingdoms?

Answer 17

Goths
Vandals
Saxons
Franks

Question 18

King Clovis

Answer 18

Conquered all of Gaul, preserved many Roman coustoms, converted to Christianity, allied himself with the pope

Question 19

Charles Martel

Answer 19

Military leader of the Franks, leads Franks over Muslims

Question 20

Charlemagne

Answer 20

Charles Martel’s grandson, built empire through France/Germany/Italy, ruled for 46 years mostly spent fighting

Question 21

What happened after Charlemagne’s death?

Answer 21

Kingdom divided up between 3 grandsons

Question 22

Medieval Women

Answer 22

Assumed role of “Lady of the Manor” while husband or father was away at war

Question 23

Agricultural revolution

Answer 23

New technologies/farming processes, plows made out of iron, better land, new harnesses, use horses instead of oxen, created a population boom

Question 24

England

Answer 24

Increased in royal power

Question 25

Domesday book

Answer 25

Established effective taxation system

Question 26

Henry Il

Answer 26

Expanded the justice system,common law

Question 27

King John

Answer 27

Henry II's son, abused his power, forced to sign a Magna Carta, due to a process of Habeas corpus

Question 28

Hugh Capet

Answer 28

Expanded royal power, dynasty ruled for 300 years, stabilized the kingdom

Question 29

Phillip lI

Answer 29

Expanded boundaries, Europe's most powerful ruler

Question 30

Louis IX

Answer 30

Persecuted Jews/Heretics/led crusades against Muslims

Question 31

Pope Urban II

Answer 31

Launched the 1st crusade to free Holy Land, successfully freed Jerusalem

Question 32

2nd crusade

Answer 32

Jerusalem fell to Saladin

Question 33

3rd crusade

Answer 33

Fails Saladin opens, Jerusalem to Christian pilgrimages

Question 34

4th crusade

Answer 34

Christians vs Christians, Constinople trade disputes

Question 35

What reunited Muslims in the Middle East?

Answer 35

Positive effects

Question 36

Marco Polo

Answer 36

Merchant, travels around the world

Question 37

Scholasticism

Answer 37

Use reason to support Christian beliefs

Question 38

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 38

Faith and reason in harmony

Question 39

Literature

Answer 39

Switch to writing in vernacular, everyday writing

Question 40

Medieval

Answer 40

Referring to the Middle Ages in Europe or the period of History between ancient and modern times