Exam 3: Ch.11: The Medieval West in Crisis
a dynasty
Which system of government best describes the Ottoman state?
papal interference in secular authority
William of Ockham's Dialogus opposed what policy of the pope?
pilgrimage
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were based around the common theme of __________.
soil erosion
A man-made cause of the Great Famine was __________.
converted to Islam
After being conquered by the Ottomans, the Bosnian kingdoms differed from their Serb neighbors because they __________.
civil war in England
Arguably the most important factor in ending the Hundred Years' War was __________.
commercial banking
By 1346, the merchants of Florence had experienced a complete crash in which economic sector?
championed the cause of women in a male-dominated society
Christine de Pisan and Joan of Arc both __________.
social outsiders
Heretics and Jews were both persecuted during the fourteenth century because both were viewed as __________.
Tamerlane largely destroyed the Silk Road.
How did Tamerlane's conquests differ from those of Genghis Khan?
It had a longer incubation period.
How did the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century Black Death differ from visitations of the disease in the nineteenth and twentieth century?
Eastern Europe fared better than western Europe.
How would you describe the effects of the fourteenth century depression in eastern and western Europe?
replaced the Byzantine Empire
In its first centuries, the Ottoman Empire essentially __________.
the English won most of the major battles
It is most surprising that the French won the Hundred Years' War because __________.
raise taxes to recruit soldiers
Philip IV "The Fair" called the Estates General in 1302 in order to help him __________.
monasticism
The Brothers of the Common Life most closely resembled what other religious institution?
the Great Schism
The Conciliar Movement attempted to resolve what dispute within the Church?
longbows
The English victories during the Hundred Years' War were primarily due to the use of __________.
gunpowder
The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks was caused partially by the invention of what military technology?
the silk road
The Mongol Peace allowed __________ to flourish.
the black death
The Pistoian Book of the Dead and Francesco Traini's fresco The Triumph of Death in Pisa represent what fourteenth-century event?
growing national identities
The Statutes of Kilkenny of 1366 were an early sign of _________ in Europe.
the little ice age
The collapse of agriculture in Scandinavia and the Alps and the end of grape production in England were signs of which phenomenon during the fourteenth century?
Osman I
The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was __________.
shortened the growing season
The impact of the "Little Ice Age" differed from that of the Black Death because the cold spell __________.
seventeenth
The last outbreak of the Black Death in Europe came in the __________ century.
Ciompi
The less-skilled members of the Florentine woolen-cloth industry were the __________.
infantry
The military revolution was a change from armies based around heavily armored mounted knights to __________.
regulating manufacturing
The most important role of the guilds in medieval towns was ___________.
Charles VII
The ruler of France who became king at the end of the Hundred Years' War was __________.
bricklayers
Which of the following industries was controlled by craft guilds?
The English peasants followed a political agenda.
What best describes the difference between the French revolt of the Jacquerie and the English Peasants Revolt?
the sparse population of east-central Europe
What explains why the Black Death avoided Poland and east-central Europe?
wearing mens clothes
What was Joan of Arc's crime for which she was charged with heresy?
the Ciompi revolt
Which of these was most closely tied to the economic depression of the fourteenth century?