Middle Ages

Question 1

Director of a school founded by Charlemagne in Aachen

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Alcuin of York

Question 2

Led the French to several victories against the English during the Hundred Years War

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Joan of Arc

Question 3

What did Henry II do to broaden the system of royal justice?

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he established English common law and the jury system

Question 4

Money for investment

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capital

Question 5

Merchants issued bills of exchange to solve problems of theft while on the road

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True

Question 6

What was the framework for England's legislature set up by the Model Parliament?

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representation by nobles, clergy and commons

Question 7

The lesser lords

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vassals

Question 8

Penalty that prohibited individual Christians from receiving sacraments

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excommunication

Question 9

Pope Gregory VII banned this practice

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kings appointing bishops

Question 10

Wordly

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secular

Question 11

The strongest kingdom to emerge

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the Franks

Question 12

Divided Charlemagne's empire into three parts

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Treaty of Verdun

Question 13

Church action that excommunicated the entire town or region

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interdict

Question 14

Trainee working to join a guild

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apprentice

Question 15

Who launched the Albigensian Crusade?

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Innocent III

Question 16

Who dominated the economic and political life of medieval towns?

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merchant guilds

Question 17

Government set up by Philip IV of France

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Estates General

Question 18

Believers of Islam

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Muslims

Question 19

Refers to the everyday language of ordinary people

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vernacular

Question 20

Religion whose followers built a great empire

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Islam

Question 21

Taxes paid to support the church

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tithe

Question 22

Written documents that set out the rights and privileges of a town

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charter

Question 23

What was one result of new farming technologies and methods?

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population growth

Question 24

Who could not leave the manor without permission

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serfs

Question 25

Law that is the same for all people

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common law

Question 26

Capital is money for investment

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True

Question 27

A _____, or split, divided the Roman and Byzantine Churches

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schism

Question 28

Many young nobles were trained in riding and fighting to become

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a knight

Question 29

What course did merchants who need capital follow?

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they borrowed from moneylenders

Question 30

To ensure a supply of educated officials, Charlemagne

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set up a palace school in Aachen

Question 31

Charters are associations of merchants and/or artisans

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False

Question 32

Tournaments offered knights a chance to

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display their fighting skill

Question 33

Canon law applied to

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church teaching

Question 34

Lending money at interest

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usury

Question 35

Apprentices are associations of merchants and/or artisans

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False

Question 36

His work, The Canterbury Tales, offers a picture of medieval life

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Chaucer

Question 37

Guilds are written documents that set out the rights and privileges of a town

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False

Question 38

A war fought for religion reasons

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crusade

Question 39

Capital is money for investment

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True

Question 40

How did medieval cathedrals help to educate an illiterate public?

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with sculptures & stained glass windows with Bible stories

Question 41

The Estates General was made up of clergy, nobles and townspeople

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True

Question 42

Called on Charlemagne to put down rebellion nobles

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Pope Leo III

Question 43

A group of men who determined which cases should be brought to trial

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jury

Question 44

Merchant guilds dominated the economic and political life of medieval towns

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True

Question 45

For what purpose did English kings use the Domesday Book?

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to build a system of tax collection

Question 46

Lending money at interest is known as usury

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True

Question 47

Fees, fines and other dues went into the exchequer

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True

Question 48

Census commissioned by King William

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Domesday Book

Question 49

The relationship between medieval Christians and Jews was one

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in which Jews were persecuted by Christians

Question 50

How did merchants solve the problem of theft while on the road?

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they issued bills of exchange

Question 51

How did new ways of doing business reshape medieval society?

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The system of feudalism dissolved & the middle class emerged

Question 52

Duke of Saxony who took the title King of Germany

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Otto I

Question 53

Associations of merchants or artisans

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guild

Question 54

An estate a lord could grant his vassal

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fief

Question 55

Described the wonders he had seen in China

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Marco Polo

Question 56

What change in education developed during the Middle Ages?

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the first universities evolved

Question 57

Charles the Great

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Charlemagne

Question 58

Battle in which Christian warriors triumphed

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Battle of Tours

Question 59

water-filled ditch

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moat

Question 60

Required knights to be brave, loyal and true to their word

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chivalry

Middle Ages

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