Chapter 10 Review Questions

What monk was responsible for the creation of a set of rules for Western monasteries in the sixth century?

Benedict of Nursia

What Frankish monarch was able to establish a substantial empire in 800?

Charlemagne

Which of the following developments was not a result of the improved economy of the High Middle Ages?

Conflicts between peasants and landlords became rare, if they did not disappear completely.

How did the spread of Christianity affect the polytheistic religions already extant in northern Europe?

Conversion produced a religious amalgam of Christianity and beliefs in magic and supernatural spirits.

What political unit attempted to retain the title of emperor following the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire by the tenth century?

Holy Roman Empire

Which of the following was a result of the Crusades?

The Crusades helped to open the West to new cultural and economic influences from the Middle East.

Clovis was the Frankish king responsible for the

conversion of his people to Christianity.

Thomas Aquinas was the medieval scholar who

created the greatest synthesis of classical rational philosophy and Christian theology.

Manorialism was the system that

described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers.

In the manorial system, serfs were actually slaves who could be bought and sold.

false

Peter Abelard of the University of Paris rejected the use of scholasticism and insisted on the primacy of faith in obtaining knowledge.

false

The medieval West established some commercial headway, but fell far short of capitalism.

false

What institutions were responsible for the regulation of apprenticeship, guarantee of good workmanship, and limitation of admission to various occupations?

guilds

Following the fall of Rome, where was the center of the postclassical West?

in France, the Low Countries, and Germany.

The practice of state appointment of bishops led to the

investiture controversy.

One of the few technological innovations of the Middle Ages was a plow that permitted deeper cultivation of the soil called the

moldboard

Pope Gregory VII wished to free the Church from secular interference by banning the practice of investiture.

true

The Frankish ruler Charlemagne recreated the empire in the West in the year 800

true

How did the intellectual endeavors of medieval scholars differ before and after 1000?

Before 1000 scholars were limited to copying ancient texts, but after 1000 a greater synthesis of rationalism and theology was achieved.

Which of the following statements concerning the manorial system is not true?

It was technologically sophisticated.

Where was the greatest concentration of urbanization after the tenth century?

Italy and the Low Countries

Which of the following was not true of women's experience in the Middle Ages?

Women led religious services.