Social Studies 8 Pre-Renaissance Review

Question 1

How did the Black Death reach Europe?

Accepted Answer

From China through the Silk Road

Question 2

Which of these statements is an example of a worldview?

Accepted Answer

"The strong should help the weak.", "Most people are nice when you get to know them."

Question 3

In the feudal system, who were vassals?

Accepted Answer

Land-owning lords who were loyal to kings

Question 4

How did Central Asian countries (e.g. India, Arabia) become wealthy from the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

They charged taxes to merchants crossing their land.

Question 5

Most Europeans in the feudal system were

Accepted Answer

peasants.

Question 6

Why was medieval European art so unrealistic?

Accepted Answer

It was a sin to try to replicate God's creations.

Question 7

This is the idea that humans are naturally good and that they can do great things.

Accepted Answer

humanism

Question 8

What modern-day country was the heart of the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 9

Ancient Greece inspired the Renaissance. Why did some Italians find this problematic?

Accepted Answer

The ancient Greeks were polytheists

Question 10

Not many people could read in the Middle Ages. Who often could?

Accepted Answer

Monks and nobility

Question 11

Which of these allowed the Romans to transport clean water across great distances?

Accepted Answer

aqueducts

Question 12

King Arthur was important because

Accepted Answer

stories about him inspired real knights to adopt chivalry.

Question 13

Ancient Greece was divided into city-states. Which was not one of them?

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 14

Though the Crusades failed to hold Jerusalem, what lasting impact did they have?

Accepted Answer

They helped the Black Death to travel to Europe., They taught Europeans about new goods from the Silk Road.

Question 15

Where did Alexander the Great encounter armies said to have had thousands of elephants?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 16

Where would you go to learn a trade if you lived in Europe during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

guild

Question 17

Alexander the Great died in his 30s and his empire soon dissolved. What was his lasting impact?

Accepted Answer

He spread Greek culture to the Middle East and vice versa.

Question 18

Why did thousands of Europeans, including children, volunteer for the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

They wanted forgiveness of their sins from the Pope., They wanted wealth, power and adventure.

Question 19

Why did even kings fear the power of the Pope in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The Pope could turn their subjects against them.

Question 20

The first European universities were formed in the 1200s in

Accepted Answer

France.

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