High Middle Ages Quiz
When was the battle of Hastings?
1066
Who was Alexander Nevski?
A Russian national hero
What is El Cid?
A Spanish epic
Who was Genghis Khan?
A great mongol leader
What did Bologna have before most other places?
A university
Apprentice
A young man wanting to learn a trade
What were the Janissary Corps?
An elite corps of the Ottoman Turks
The Hundred Years' War was caused because of a dispute of the succession to the throne of what country?
France
Guild
Business organization
The Danish king who ruled England from 1016-1035 was
Canute
The Carolingian line of kings were followed by the
Capetian line of kings
Who wrote the Canterbury tales?
Chaucer
A standard of conduct for the ideal knight is called the
Chivalry code
Who was the last Byzantine emperor?
Constantine XI
Who established moscow?
Daniel
Who wrote Divine Comedy?
Dante
Who founded the Franciscans?
Francis of Assisi
Who was the hero of the Spanish Reconquist?
El Cid
The War of the Roses was in what country?
England
Who discovered geometry?
Euclid
A system of local government where a vassal would give allegiance to a lord in exchange for use of some land is called
Feudalism
Constantinople was captured for the first time in 1204 during the
Fourth Crusade
Who was the first Tsar?
Ivan the Great
Who established the Mongol capital at Khambalik?
Kublai Khan
Fief
Land granted by a king or lord
The document that King John was forced to sign by his nobles was the
Magna Carte
Khambalik
Modern Beijing
What are Tatars (Tartars)?
Mongol and Turkish tribes
What was the Golden horde?
Mongol territory in Russia
A social and economic system where serfs were bound to a manor ruled by a lord is called
manorialism
Which Capetian king led the seventh and eighth crusades?
St. Louis
Joan of Arc led the French army against the siege at
Orleans
Who was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
Otto the Great
First step to knighthood
Page
Who gained political victories over both Phillip of France and King John of England?
Pope Innocent III
Reeve
Selected by peasants to represent them
The Byzantine empire was conquered by whom in 1453?
The Turks
What is the symbol of the house of Lancaster?
The red rose
What is the symbol of the house of York?
The white rose
Who wrote Summa Theologica?
Thomas Aquinas
What were the Varangians?
Viking Russians
