Ch. 2 McGraw Hill World History and Geography Medieval & Early Modern Times ( Medieval Europe)

Question 1

What English King signed the Magna Carta in 1215

Accepted Answer

King John I

Question 2

Joan of Arc defeated the English at the battle of

Accepted Answer

Orleans

Question 3

Who had a census taken and written down in the Domesday Book

Accepted Answer

William the Conqueror

Question 4

Which group was pushed into Ireland, Wales and Scotland by the Angles and Saxons

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Celts

Question 5

Most land in Europe lies within 300 miles of the seacoast

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

A noble who serves a lord of a higher rank is a...

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vassal

Question 7

Medieval knights followed rules called the code of

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chivalry

Question 8

What was the name of the church court that tried and punished people who were suspected of heresy?

Accepted Answer

Inquisition

Question 9

France fought against which country in the Hundred Years' War?

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England

Question 10

Religious beliefs that conflict with Church teachings

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heresy

Question 11

Which part of Gothic cathedrals allowed the buildings to have thinner walls?

Accepted Answer

flying buttresses

Question 12

Each feudal territory had at its center a noble's castle

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Which of these groups followed a code of chivalry?

Accepted Answer

knights

Question 14

Under which system did landowning nobles govern and protect the people in return for services?

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feudalism

Question 15

Charlemagne created a general policy that brought what to his people?

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education

Question 16

Jews were ordered to convert to Christianity or leave Spain by

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Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 17

In 1095 Pope Urban II called for a crusade, or holy war against

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the Muslim Turks

Question 18

In the Middle Ages, Scandinavia was filled with fertile farmland

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

The Russian word czar means

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emperor

Question 20

Between 1000 and 1200 C.E., most nuns

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came from wealthy families

Question 21

Knights trained for war by fighting each other in tournaments.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Which of the following was an effect of the Black Death in Western Europe?

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Peasants began to pay rent instead of providing services

Question 23

What were apprentices in craft guilds given in return for their work?

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room and board

Question 24

A group of small territories that expanded around the Eastern European city of Kiev

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Kievan Rus

Question 25

The medieval state of Kievan Rus gained wealth through river trade with

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Scandinavia and the Byzantine Empire

Question 26

Which of the following was an effect of the Crusades in Western Europe

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Wealthy Europeans began to demand eastern goods

Question 27

What contributed to the idea that people have rights and that the power of government should be limited?

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Magna Carta

Question 28

Which was a Germanic people who settled the area known today as France?

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Franks

Question 29

In 1073, Pope Gregory VII issued a decree forbidding kings from appointing high-ranking

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church officials

Question 30

Friars spent most of their lives praying and working inside their monasteries.

Accepted Answer

False

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