Chapter Four Multiple Choice

Question 1

Charlemagne’s empire included

Answer 1

large parts of the western Roman Empire

Question 2

Long term results of the Viking invasions

Answer 2

the growth of feudalism

Question 3

What was agreed upon in a feudal contract

Answer 3

The lord and the vassal agreed to certain obligations

Question 4

Why did feudalism become a complex system?

Answer 4

because a vassal could owe loyalty to more than one lord

Question 5

Most wars in feudal ages were fought to

Answer 5

settle boundary or inheritance disputes

Question 6

What did these two relationships have in common?

serf/lord and vassal/lord

Answer 6

Both involved mutual duties and responsibilities

Question 7

Christian leader at the Battle of Tours

Answer 7

Charles Martel

Question 8

What seriously disrupted European life in the 800s and 900s?

Answer 8

Viking invasions

Question 9

What was a direct result of European invasions after 700?

Answer 9

the decrease of the monarch’s power (decrease of royal authority)

Question 10

In a feudal contract, a vassal provided the lord with

Answer 10

military service

Question 11

chivalry governed relations between

Answer 11

noblemen and women

Question 12

What were 3 agricultural advances in the Middle Ages?

Answer 12

horseshoe
water mill
farm tools made out of iron

Question 13

In the late Middle Ages, townspeople supported the king because

Answer 13

the kings supported trade

Question 14

William the Conqueror required his subjects to

Answer 14

pledge first loyalty to him

Question 15

Long term effect of the Magna Carta

Answer 15

It limited royal power

Question 16

Parliament won new rights because

Answer 16

the king need their consent to raise taxes

Question 17

Because of the Viking invasions, French kings

Answer 17

lost power to the feudal lords

Question 18

Group that supported the monarchs in their struggles

Answer 18

the townspeople

Question 19

Increased trade benefitted monarchs because

Answer 19

tax revenue allowed them to raise an army

Question 20

Unlike the rest of Europe, England

Answer 20

did not develop into a feudal system

Question 21

Common Law developed out of

Answer 21

decisions of the royal courts

Question 22

Major principle contained in the Magna Carta

Answer 22

king was not above the law

Question 23

Significance of the Battle of Tours

Answer 23

The Muslim advance in Europe was stopped