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The early medieval church in the West |
B. developed a more organized monastic structure under Saint Benedict. |
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The organization of the Roman Catholic church |
A. was fundamentally strengthened as the pope became the recognized head of church in the west. |
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In an effort to avoid the potential mayhem of the Germanic system of personal revenge for the punishment of crimes, an alternative system arose that made us of a fine called |
A. wergeld |
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Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries? |
B. They served as centers of learning. |
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Charlemagne’s oversifht representatives, the messengers of the lord king, were the |
C. missi dominici |
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Charlemagne’s carolingian empire accomplished all of the following except |
A. it restored an urban economy based upon the use of money |
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Monasticism in medieval Europe |
C. included women, many of whom belonged to royal families |
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Who were the Asian people, defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld, who became Christians and went on to establish the Kingdom of Hungary? |
B. the Magyars |
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The incursions of the Scandinavian Vikings into other parts of Europe |
B. were successful in part because of their ships had a shallow draft, allowing them to sail far up rivers, raiding and pillaging as they went. |
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The personal element of feudalism was most symbolized in the relationship involving |
D. lords and vassals. |
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The piece of land that provided the feudal vassal’s economic support was the |
A. fief. |
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Aristocratic medieval women |
A. in unusual circumstances, could play a major role, as did Eleanor of Aquitaine |
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All of the following are correct regarding the development of fief-holding except it |
E. was a result of the Church’s attempt to give serfs and peasants more social mobility |
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Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the Early Middle Ages |
B. The Stirrup |
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Vassals |
C. were supported by the income from a fief of land |
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As a result of the Norman conquest of 1066 |
A. King William ordered a census of his new kingdom |
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The english king most responsible for establishing the common law was |
D. Henry II |
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By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the english parliament |
C. was a system of power sharing between the monarch and groups within the society. |
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France’s first parliament, begun under Phillip IV, was the |
C. Estates-General |
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The early Capetian kings of France |
B. were effective rulers only in the area around Paris. |
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Phillip II Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except he |
B. became the Holy Roman Emporer |
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The Saxon king who created a new Roman Empire that included Germany and Italy was |
C. Otto I |
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Central issues complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were |
E. both a and c |
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The Principality of Kiev was founded by |
B. Scandinavian Vikigs |
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All of the following were true about the development of Russia except |
C. Magyar dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russian unity. |
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The missionary brothers who created the Slavonic, or Cyrillic, alphabet, translated the Bible into Slavonic, and who developed Slavonic church services were |
C. Cyril and Methodius |
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The Slavs |
C. were divided into two religious groups, with most southern and eastern Slavs becoming Orthodox and most northern and western Slavs becoming Roman Catholic |
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During the High Middle Ages |
C. agricultural productivity improved |
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High Middle Ages agriculture included all except |
E. the use of slave labor |
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Which of the following is a valid statement about manorialism and the medieval manor? |
A. Manorialism provided the economic foundation of feudalism |
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Which of the following is not an example of the nature of the medieval serfs lives? |
A. They had more privileges than a burgher. |
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All of the following were true of the medieval peasants lives except |
C. many became members of agricultural craft guilds |
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Which of the following was not true about medieval towns and cities |
C. They were food producing, self-sufficient units, in which commerce was secondary |
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Which of the following was not true about medieval Christianity? |
C. Papal authority had diminished by the thirteenth century. |
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The Dominican friars |
B. were first led by the highly intellectual Dominic de Guzman |
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The medieval religious order which was noted for its commitment to living among the common people and ministering the poor was |
C. the Franciscans |
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The medieval university |
A. was originally an educational association of students and scholars as at Bologna |
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All of the following are true about scholasticism except |
D. the author of the summa theologica was Abelard dun Scotus. |
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Which of the following was not characteristic of Romanesque architecture? |
B. flying butresses |
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Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture |
D. thich walls |
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All of the following were motives for the crusades except |
C. the aim to increase religious toleration between muslims and Christians. |
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Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except |
B. Belisarius |
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The Fourth Crusade resulted in |
B. the fall of Constantinople |
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The early fourteenth century was troubled by |
A. the ”little ice age” |
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The Black Death |
A. was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis. |
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Flagellants |
D. were Christian fanatics who physically scourged themselves during the Black Death |
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All of the following regarding the Hundred Years War are correct except |
A. traditional nobles fighting on horseback were the keys to victory. |
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In the early fourteenth century, the Catholic church |
C. was moved to Avignon. |
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The Great Schism |
B. saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope |
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The council which ended the Great Schism was the council of |
D. Constance |
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