APWH Chapter 12- The Making of Europe in the Middle Ages

As a result of the Norman conquest of 1066

A. King William ordered a census of his new kingdom

Which of the following is a valid statement about manorialism and the medieval manor?

A. Manorialism provided the economic foundation of feudalism

Which of the following is not an example of the nature of the medieval serfs lives?

A. They had more privileges than a burgher.

The piece of land that provided the feudal vassal's economic support was the

A. fief.

Aristocratic medieval women

A. in unusual circumstances, could play a major role, as did Eleanor of Aquitaine

Charlemagne's carolingian empire accomplished all of the following except

A. it restored an urban economy based upon the use of money

The early fourteenth century was troubled by

A. the ''little ice age''

All of the following regarding the Hundred Years War are correct except

A. traditional nobles fighting on horseback were the keys to victory.

The organization of the Roman Catholic church

A. was fundamentally strengthened as the pope became the recognized head of church in the west.

The medieval university

A. was originally an educational association of students and scholars as at Bologna

The Black Death

A. was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis.

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

Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except

B. Belisarius

The Principality of Kiev was founded by

B. Scandinavian Vikigs

Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the Early Middle Ages

B. The Stirrup

Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries?

B. They served as centers of learning.

Phillip II Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except he

B. became the Holy Roman Emporer

The early medieval church in the West

B. developed a more organized monastic structure under Saint Benedict.

Which of the following was not characteristic of Romanesque architecture?

B. flying butresses

The Great Schism

B. saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope

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

The Fourth Crusade resulted in

B. the fall of Constantinople

The early Capetian kings of France

B. were effective rulers only in the area around Paris.

The Dominican friars

B. were first led by the highly intellectual Dominic de Guzman

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.

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

France's first parliament, begun under Phillip IV, was the

C. Estates-General

All of the following were true about the development of Russia except

C. Magyar dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russian unity.

The Saxon king who created a new Roman Empire that included Germany and Italy was

C. Otto I

Which of the following was not true about medieval Christianity?

C. Papal authority had diminished by the thirteenth century.

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

During the High Middle Ages

C. agricultural productivity improved

Monasticism in medieval Europe

C. included women, many of whom belonged to royal families

All of the following were true of the medieval peasants lives except

C. many became members of agricultural craft guilds

Charlemagne's oversifht representatives, the messengers of the lord king, were the

C. missi dominici

The medieval religious order which was noted for its commitment to living among the common people and ministering the poor was

C. the Franciscans

All of the following were motives for the crusades except

C. the aim to increase religious toleration between muslims and Christians.

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.

In the early fourteenth century, the Catholic church

C. was moved to Avignon.

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

Vassals

C. were supported by the income from a fief of land

The council which ended the Great Schism was the council of

D. Constance

The english king most responsible for establishing the common law was

D. Henry II

The personal element of feudalism was most symbolized in the relationship involving

D. lords and vassals.

All of the following are true about scholasticism except

D. the author of the summa theologica was Abelard dun Scotus.

Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture

D. thich walls

Flagellants

D. were Christian fanatics who physically scourged themselves during the Black Death

Central issues complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were

E. both a and c

High Middle Ages agriculture included all except

E. the use of slave labor

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