a tax Christians are required to pay

What two churches emerged following the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian

Why were the cathedrals of the Middle Ages built with an emphasis on grandeur and glory of God?

Lives revolved around the church; express religious devotion

What was the purpose of the stained glass windows?

tell the stories of the bible to the illiterate population

Why did people give gifts to the church?

People wanted special favors or wanted a place in heaven

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1
What was the most significant conflict between the secular and religious powers?
Concordat of Worms
Excommunication
selling of sacraments
Lay Investiture
2
What is a tithe?
a tax Christians are required to pay
a tax peasants paid to the King
a tax Christians paid to the Lord
a tax peasants paid to the Lord
3
What two churches emerged following the collapse of the Roman Empire?
Mormons and Jesuits
Baptist and Lutheran
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian
Roman Catholic and Protestant
4
What were the abuses of the church?
Clerical Marriage and Sacraments
Simony and Celibacy
Simony and Clerical Marriage
Excommunication and Interdict
5
What is Cannon law?
law of the school
law of the manor
law of the city
law of the church
6
What did the Pope do to show his appreciation to Charlemagne?
Excommunicated him from the church
Gave more land to Charlemagne
He gave him money
Crowned him Emperor
7
What represented the "City of God" and showed the church's wealth?
Medieval Art
Cathedrals
Buttress designs
Stained Glass Windows
8
What was the new style of architecture that developed in the Middle Ages?
Secularism
Romanesque
Realistic
Gothic
9
Why were the cathedrals of the Middle Ages built with an emphasis on grandeur and glory of God?
Kings demanded the churches be built that way
Pope could afford to build churches to this size with tithes
People lived in the church so they needed to be large
Lives revolved around the church; express religious devotion
10
What religion was most of Europe at this time?
Hindu
Muslim
Christian
Jewish
11
What was the purpose of the stained glass windows?
tell the stories of the bible to the illiterate population
to display the biblical stories for little children
to let sunlight in since electricity wasn't around
Beautiful art to express how rich the church was
12
Did the role of women increase or decrease during the Middle Ages?
increase
stayed the same
decrease
13
Why did people give gifts to the church?
The people were required to give gifts
The people wanted to show their love to the church
People wanted special favors or wanted a place in heaven
The people didn't give gifts to the church
14
What was the purpose of the crusades?
recapture the holy land
recapture the lost Chinese lands
destroy the Confucian scholars
destroy the Buddhist monks
15
What were the two harshest punishments that offenders faced from the church?
icons and iconoclasts
interdict and excommunication
baptism and communion
feudalism and manorialism

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