High Middle Ages Quiz

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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


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