HIST 1001 Ch 11
How did Tamerlane's conquests differ from those of Genghis Khan?
Tamerlane largely destroyed the Silk Road
Dante Aligherie's Divine Comedy and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were based around the common theme of ___________________.
pilgrimage
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church saw the papacy move from Rome to _______________.
Avignon
The ruler of France who became king at the end of the Hundred Years' War was ________________.
Charles VII
The less-skilled members of the Florentine woolen-cloth industry were the __________.
Ciompi
How would you describe the effects of the fourteenth century depression in eastern and western Europe?
Eastern Europe fared better than western Europe
The author of The Canterbury Tales was _________.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Which of these men founded a major reform movement in England in the fourteenth century?
John Wycliffe
The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was ___________.
Osman I
The Conciliar Movement had an analogy in the development of what other institution?
Parliament
The Mudejars were __________.
Spanish Muslims who capitulated to Christianity
The Pistoian Book of the Dead and the Francesco Traini's fresco The Triumph of Death in Pisa represent what fourteenth-century event?
The Black Death
Which of these was most closely tied to the economic depression of the fourteenth century?
The Ciompi revolt
What best describes the difference between the French revolt of the Jacquerie and the English Peasants Revolt?
The English peasants followed a political agenda
The Conciliar Movement attempted to resolve what dispute within the Church?
The Great Schism
The Mongul Peace allowed _____________ to flourish.
The Silk Road
Who guided Dante through this passage into Hell in The Divine Comedy?
Virgil
Which system of government best describes the Ottoman state?
a dynasty
The Art of Dying described death as _____________.
a supernatural struggle
Which of the following industries was controlled by craft guilds?
bricklayers
Christine de Pisan and Joan of Arc both _______________.
championed the cause of women in a male-dominated society
Arguably the most important factor in ending the Hundred Years' War was __________________.
civil war in England
By 1346, the merchants of Florence had experienced a complete crash in which economic sector?
commercial banking
After being conquered by the Ottomans, the Bosnian kingdoms differed from their Serb neighbors because they ______________.
converted to Islam
The Statutes of Kilkenny of 1366 were an early sign of ___________ in Europe.
growing national identities
The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks was caused partially by the invention of what military technology?
gunpowder
The military revolution was a change from armies based around heavily armored mounted knights to ________________.
infantry
William of Ockham's Dialogus opposed what policy of the pope?
papal interference in the secular authority
How did the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century Black Death differ from visitations of the disease in the nineteenth and twentieth century?
it had a longer incubation period
The English victories during the Hundred Years' War were primarily due to the use of ______________.
longbows
The Brothers of the Common Life most closely resembled what other religious institution?
monasticism
Indulgences, or certificates that allowed penitents to atone for their sins and reduce their time in purgatory, were used by the popes in the fourteenth century to ____________.
raise revenue
Philip IV "The Fair" called the Estates General in 1302 in order to help him ________.
raise taxes to recruit soldiers
The most important role of the guilds in medieval towns was _______________.
regulating manufacturing
In its first centuries, the Ottoman Empire essentially ______________.
replaced the Byzantine Empire
The last outbreak of the Black Death in Europe came in the ____________ century.
seventeenth
The impact of the "Little Ice Age" differed from that of the Black Death because the cold spell _________.
shortened the growing season
Heretics and Jews were both persecuted during the fourteenth century because both were viewed as _______________.
social outsiders
A man-made cause of the Great Famine was ___________.
soil erosion
One of the most profound and influential messages that underlays the Reminders of Death is that ____________.
status did not protect anyone from death
It is most surprising that the French won the Hundred Years' War because _______________.
the English won most of the major battles
The collapse of agriculture in Scandinavia and the Alps and the end of the grape production in England were signs of which phenomenon during the fourteenth century?
the Little Ice Age
Heretics like Jan Hus and John Wycliffe attacked what element of Church doctrine?
the sacraments
What explains why the Black Death avoided Poland and east-central Europe?
the sparse population of east-central Europe
What was Joan of Arc's crime for which she was charged with heresy?
wearing men's clothes
