Early/Later Middle Ages

Question 1

Early Middle Ages (dates)

Answer 1

500-1000ad

Question 2

Feudalism social order

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Church–lord and nobles–vassals and lesser lords–Knights–peasants

Question 3

Grants of land given by —– in exchange of loyalty from

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Land given by lords in exchange for oaths of loyalty from the private armies of vassal and their knights protected lords and their land

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Peasants owed —

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Labor and obedience

Question 5

Middle Ages all owed obedience to —-

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The church

Question 6

Manor estates owned by —-

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Lords

Question 7

Peasant serfs given land to work on in exchange for—-

Answer 7

Percentage of crop yield

Question 8

Free peasants worked as—-

Answer 8

Skilled laborers

Question 9

Dues and deed charged for—–

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Tenancy, use of roads, bridges, etc

Question 10

Tenancy

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Possession of land as a tenant

Question 11

Middle Ages: leading lords emerged as —-

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Kings

Question 12

Middle Ages: political foundation for —–

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Nation states

Question 13

Nation state

Answer 13

A nation state is a geographical area that can be identified as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign nation

Question 14

Dark Ages (dates)

Answer 14

500-800ad

Question 15

Who became the dominant Greek tribe during the dark ages

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The Franks

Question 16

What broke out among the Merovingians

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Domestic feuds and civil wars

Question 17

Merovingians

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The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century.

Question 18

561ad among the civil wars what changed in power dynamics

Answer 18

Political power shifted away from monarchy

Question 19

Actions of Charles Martel

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Halted Muslim advances into Europe at the battle of tours (732)

Question 20

Matteo’s victory helped —–

Answer 20

Preserve western civilization

Question 21

The Carolingians

Answer 21

They replaced the franks as legitimate rulers

Question 22

Carolingians details and times

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The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.

Question 23

Pepin the Short

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747-768 appointed by the pope as king

Question 24

Pepin the Short established—

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Papal States on former Byzantine land

Question 25

Charlemagne dates

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768-814

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Charlemagne details

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Crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by pope Leo in 800 ad and dominated the political structure of the early Middle Ages

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Charlemagne revived----

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The concept of the Holy Roman Empire and established authority of secular rule

Question 28

Charlemagne's empire included-----

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Most of the former Roman Empire and additional Germanic lands between the Rhine and Elbe rivers

Question 29

The Carolingian Renaissance resulted in the establishment of a palace------

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Palace academy with prescribed academic curriculum

Question 30

The Carolingian Renaissance details

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They Carolingian Renaissance, the first of three medieval renaissances, was a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire occurring from the late eighth century to the ninth century, taking inspiration from the Christian Roman Empire of the 4th century.

Question 31

Cause of chaotic political, economic, and urban decline stating in the early Middle Ages

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Collapse of roman and sweeping advanced of Germanic and Viking raiders

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The Treaty of Verdun

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Split Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons

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When did Carolingian rule end

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10th century

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Why did Carolingian rule end

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Decline in central authority and the invasion of the Scandinavian tribe

Question 35

The Viking (Norse) invaders pillaged where and when

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The coasts of Europe in the eight century

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The Danes were responsible for the major invasions of----

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England

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Alfred the Great (dates)

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871-899ad

Question 38

Actions of Alfred the Great

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Established the English kingdom after stemming the Danish invasions

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What did the Frankish system of inheritance due in terms of the nation

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Hastened the dissolution of the empire

Question 40

In France the Carolingian king ----- (what happened to him)

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He was forehead to give up Normandy to the Vikings

Question 41

Society in the Middle Ages was based on-----

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The feudal system

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Under the feudal system, political authority was dominated by---

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The landed nobility

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Manorialism

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Agricultural organization and economic foundation of feudalism

Question 44

The rise of feudal monarchs in the later Middle Ages caused the development of ------ in (location)

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Nation states in France

Question 45

Conflicts with the Pope about the extent of religious authority lead to----

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Increase of authority in the monarch

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By the early ----- century royal authority had expanded and (nation) became a world power

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Early 13th century (France)

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Hundred year ward dates

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1337-1453

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Hundred year war was between

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England and France

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Result of the hundred year war

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English being driven out of most of France

Question 50

The ---- conquest had a profound impact on the development of culture and the jusciak system if England

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Norman conquest

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Battle of Hastings

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1066 (ended anglo Saxon rule in England

Question 52

By the --- century, English common law was firmly established

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English common law

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Magna Carta

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(1215) limited the power of the kind (big deal)

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By the ----- century the English parliament was firmly established

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14 century

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What composed English parliament

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House of Lords (titles nobility) | House of Commons (gentry and middle)

Question 56

The Requista (what and when)

Answer 56

Re-established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492

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Pope in Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages

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Dominant in religious matters and the monarch in secular matters

Question 58

A continuing power struggle evolved between whom during the late Middle Ages

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Papacy and secular rule

Question 59

Medieval civil society based on ---- division

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Class division

Question 60

Who were the privileged class

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Clergy and nobility

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Who were the workforce classes

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Peasants and artisans.

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Who was tied to the land

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Surfs

Question 63

By the 20th century, the decline of ----- and ---- was evident

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Feudalism and manorialism

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Manorialism

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Manorialism was characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a Lord of the Manor, supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor (sometimes called a fief), and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under the jurisdiction of himself and his manorial court.

Question 65

The commercial revival lead to towns and a --------- emerged

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True middle class

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Economic activism in these towns were monitored by------

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Merchant and craft guilds

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Education in late mediaeval times stress

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Language arts: theology, Latin, philosophy, etc

Question 68

Late Middle Ages what type of architecture dominated

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Romanesque

Question 69

Middle Ages were a ------ period between ---------

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Transition period between ancient and modern Europe

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Magna Carta modern influence

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Constitutionalism, individual rights, due process of the law