Middle Ages

Question 1

What is the boundary between Europe and Asia?

Answer 1

Ural Mountains

Question 2

When were the Dark Ages?

Answer 2

The time period in between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages

Question 3

Who ruled the Kingdom of the Franks?

Answer 3

King Clovis

Question 4

What did Charlemagne do?

Answer 4

Conquer and unify most of Europe

Question 5

Who crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman emperor?

Answer 5

Pope Leo III

Question 6

What event led up to the Great Schism?

Answer 6

Pope Leo IX excommunicating the bishop

Question 7

When was the Great Schism?

Answer 7

1054

Question 8

Who was the Battle of Hastings between and what was it over?

Answer 8

William the Conqueror and King Harold over the throne of England.

Question 9

What marks the start of feudalism?

Answer 9

William awards his loyal knights land

Question 10

When does Pope Gregory VII come to power?

Answer 10

1073

Question 11

Who does Pope Gregory VII famously try to excommunicate?

Answer 11

King Henry IV

Question 12

Who starts the Crusades?

Answer 12

Pope Urban II

Question 13

When is the Magna Carta signed and what does it do?

Answer 13

Limits the monarch’s power, signed in 1215

Question 14

Who caused the Magna Carta to have to be made?

Answer 14

King John and his cruel ways of needlessly imprisoning and taking from people

Question 15

Who ordered the Albigensian Crusade?

Answer 15

Pope Innocent III

Question 16

About how many people died from the plague?

Answer 16

25 million

Question 17

What is Miasma?

Answer 17

The idea that people got sick from “bad air”

Question 18

What were the effect of the plague?

Answer 18

Economy declining, prices going down, wages increasing, people loosing faith in God because of what had happened to them

Question 19

Where did the plague begin?

Answer 19

The Gobi desert, then traveled along the Silk Road

Question 20

What caused the plague?

Answer 20

fLeAs oN rAts

Question 21

What is the difference between the bubonic plague and septicemic plague?

Answer 21

Bubonic : boils
Septicemic : skin turns black, more fatal

Question 22

What happened between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV?

Answer 22

Henry tried to remove Gregory but begged for forgiveness when he was threatened to be excommunicated.

Question 23

Define Habeas Corpus.

Answer 23

A king must have a reason to put someone in jail and they must be charged by the jury.

Question 24

What is heresey?

Answer 24

Belief opposing the Church

Question 25

Where was Jerusalem located?

Answer 25

in the land of Levant

Question 26

What was the Albigensian Crusade about?

Answer 26

Heretics angering Pope Innocent III

Question 27

Who did the Byzantine Emperor call for military help?

Answer 27

Pope Urban II to fight the Muslims

Question 28

Why were the Dark Ages dark?

Answer 28

They were described as having a lack of cultural or artistic advancement and unity in states and kingdoms.

Question 29

A community of nuns is called a…

Answer 29

Convent

Question 30

A community of monks is called a…

Answer 30

Monastery

Question 31

Charlemagne was ruler of the…

Answer 31

Franks

Question 32

What is the difference between the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages?

Answer 32

The dark ages usually refer to the first part of the middle ages

Question 33

What finally ended feudalism?

Answer 33

The Black Death and its many political changes.

Question 34

What was the Hundred Years War?

Answer 34

A conflict between england and france over the french crown

Question 35

Who was Joan of Arc?

Answer 35

A peasant who led the battle of Orleans and was later captured by the enemy and burned at the stake.

Question 36

Exactly how long did the Hundred Years war last?

Answer 36

116 years

Question 37

When did the Black Death occur?

Answer 37

1346 (6 years)