Emerging Europe and the Byzantine Empire

Question 1

Feudalism came to be characterized by a set of unwritten rules —known as the _____.

Accepted Answer

feudal contract

Question 2

The _____ could be raised to prevent entry to the castle.

Accepted Answer

drawbridge

Question 3

The _____ occupied Spain and Italy until the Ostrogoths took control of Italy in the fifth century.

Accepted Answer

Visigoths

Question 4

By the ninth century, the grant of land made to a vassal had become known as a ___.

Accepted Answer

fief

Question 5

The _____ moved into central Europe at the end of the ninth century, settled in Hungary, and invaded western Europe.

Accepted Answer

Magyars

Question 6

By the eighth century, a man who served a lord in a military capacity was known as a _____.

Accepted Answer

vassal

Question 7

The crucial social bond among the Germanic peoples was the _____

Accepted Answer

extended family

Question 8

During his long rule from 768 to 814, Charlemagne greatly expanded the Frankish kingdom and created the _____.

Accepted Answer

Carolingian Empire

Question 9

In the ninth century, the _____ attacked the southern coasts of Europe and sent raiding parties into southern France.

Accepted Answer

Muslims

Question 10

The first period of chivalry was during...

Accepted Answer

the Crusade

Question 11

How can a castle be described in the Medieval Age?

Accepted Answer

Dark, dank, smelly fortresses loaded with vermin and disease.

Question 12

A _____ is a man who separates himself from ordinary society to dedicate himself to God.

Accepted Answer

monk

Question 13

Upon Pépin’s death in 768, his son became the new Frankish king. This powerful ruler was Charles the Great, or _____.

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 14

Military order that played chivalric loyalty oaths after the Crusades.

Accepted Answer

Knights Templar

Question 15

The _____ was moved up and down to open or close the entrance to the barbican.

Accepted Answer

portcullis

Question 16

Water in castles was so contaminated, that people preferred to drink...

Accepted Answer

alcohol

Question 17

_____ was the amount paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed.

Accepted Answer

Wergild

Question 18

Inside castles, it was...

Accepted Answer

very dark and extremely cold

Question 19

The _______ was a walled defense used to protect the castle gatehouse.

Accepted Answer

barbican

Question 20

In medieval times, people used to take baths in...

Accepted Answer

the same giant wooden tubs

Question 21

The ____ was a fenced enclosure of land or courtyard.

Accepted Answer

bailey

Question 22

The Frankish kingdom was established by _____, a strong military leader who converted to Christianity.

Accepted Answer

Clovis

Question 23

For almost five hundred years, warfare in Europe was dominated by heavily armored cavalry, or _____.

Accepted Answer

knights

Question 24

The practice of living the life of a monk is known as _____.

Accepted Answer

monasticism

Question 25

Nuns lived in convents headed by ______.

Accepted Answer

abbesses

Question 26

A medieval toilet could be described as...

Accepted Answer

a wooden bench with holes on it

Question 27

One means of determining guilt in Germanic law was the ____, which was based on the idea of divine intervention.

Accepted Answer

Ordeal

Question 28

New political and social order in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Accepted Answer

Feudalism

Question 29

Later bishops of Rome were viewed as Peter’s successors. They came to be known as _____.

Accepted Answer

popes

Question 30

The bishoprics were joined together under a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

archbishop

Question 31

In Medieval castles, feasts were held in the ____.

Accepted Answer

great hall

Question 32

Frankish chief officer who assumed the kingship of the Frankish kingdoms for himself in the 600s.

Accepted Answer

Pépin

Question 33

What happened to prisoners in dungeons?

Accepted Answer

They would be tortured all the time

Question 34

In order to limit the counts’ powers, Charlemagne set up the _____ (messengers of the lord king).

Accepted Answer

missi dominici

Question 35

Each Benedictine monastery was led by an _____ or “father,” whom the monks were expected to obey.

Accepted Answer

abbot

Question 36

In the sixth century, however, Saint Benedict wrote a set of rules to guide a community of monks he founded.

Accepted Answer

Saint Benedict

Question 37

By the late twelfth century, the ___ —individual combat between two knights— had become the main part of the tournament.

Accepted Answer

joust

Question 38

English and Irish monks were very enthusiastic _____, or people sent out to carry a religious message

Accepted Answer

missionaries

Question 39

Which was the main room inside a castle?

Accepted Answer

The chapel

Question 40

The __ were a Germanic people with great love of adventure and search for spoils of war. They built great ships.

Accepted Answer

Vikings

Question 41

___ was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold.

Accepted Answer

Chivalry

Question 42

Charlemagne's efforts led to an intellectual revival sometimes called the _____, or rebirth.

Accepted Answer

Carolingian Renaissance

Question 43

Monasteries established ____, or writing rooms, where monks copied the works of early Christianity, like the Bible.

Accepted Answer

scriptoria

Question 44

In the sixth century, a strong pope named _____ strengthened the power of the papacy and the Church.

Accepted Answer

Gregory I

Question 45

Women, called ____, also began to withdraw from the world to dedicate themselves to God.

Accepted Answer

nuns

Question 46

In the twelfth century, ____ —contests where knights could demonstrate their fighting skills— began to appear.

Accepted Answer

tournaments

Question 47

Priests led local Christian communities called _____.

Accepted Answer

parishes

Question 48

In the Medieval Ages, if you were rich, you could...

Accepted Answer

drink wine and take ocasional baths

Question 49

Kings, dukes, counts, barons, and even bishops and archbishops formed an aristocracy, or ___.

Accepted Answer

nobility

Question 50

A group of parishes was headed by a bishop, whose area of authority was called a _____.

Accepted Answer

diocese, bishopric

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