Middle Ages 2

Question 1

True or false

Powerful nobles gained more dominace

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Arrange in chronological order

a. Vikings became part of the european civilization
b. danes occupied northeastern England
c. Groups of Norway settled in Ireland
d. Vikings begun to build winter settlements in different areas of Europe

Answer 2

D
C
B
A

Question 3

It became a source of incessant struggle between the other two Franklish rules and their heirs

Answer 3

The Middle Kingdom

Question 4

They are people from Western Asia who launched forays into Western Europe?

Answer 4

Magyars

Question 5

They were warriors whose love for adventures and search for booty

Answer 5

Vikings

Question 6

Extended from the North sea to the Mediterranean

Answer 6

Middle kingdom

Question 7

True or false

Carolingian rulers got along with each other

Answer 7

False, they fought with each other

Question 8

30 years later

The carolingian empire was divided into how many and among who?

Answer 8

Divided into THREE among his GRANDSONS

Question 9

Where was the battle of Lechfeld

Answer 9

Germany

Question 10

Groups from Norway settled where?

Answer 10

Ireland

Question 11

They were converted into Christians after they were crushed in the Battle of Lechfeld

Answer 11

Magyars

Question 13

They were also known to us as The Vikings

Answer 13

Northmen or Norsemen of Scandinavia

Question 14

It became Germany

Answer 14

Eastern lands

Question 15

The Magyars established the kingdom of what?

Answer 15

Kingdom of Hungary

Question 16

The grant of land made to a vassal is called what?

Answer 16

Fief

Question 17

This led become part of the European civilization

Answer 17

Conversion to Christianity

Question 18

The kingdom of Hungary was established by who?

Answer 18

Magyars

Question 19

Warfare in Europe will be dominated by heavily armored cavalry also know as what?

Answer 19

Knights

Question 20

What is the core of the eventual kingdom of France?

Answer 20

The Western Frankish lands

Question 21

It was an agricultural estate operated by a lord and worked by peasants

Answer 21

Manor

Question 22

The three divided sections of the carolingian empire

Answer 22

Western frankish lands
Eastern lands
“Middle kingdom”

Question 22

The Viking “dragon ships” carried about how many men?

Answer 22

50 men

Question 24

The contract sworn between a lord and a subordinate is called what?

Answer 24

Feudalism

Question 26

Larger horses and stirrups were introduced by who?

Answer 26

Nomadic horsemen from Asia

Question 27

By the ninth century, how many percent of the population of western Europe had become serfs?

Answer 27

60%

Question 28

They are located on the fiefs which provided the economic sustenance that made this way of life possible

Answer 28

Landed estates

Question 29

Which was beset by a wave of invasions in the 9th and 10th century?

Answer 29

Western Europe

Question 30

They attacked Southern Europe and sent raiding parties to Southern France

Answer 30

Muslims

Question 30

Occupied northeastern England

Answer 30

Danes

Question 31

True or false | Feudalism was always a cohesive system

Answer 31

False

Question 33

Horsemen wore armor in forms of what

Answer 33

Coats of mail

Question 34

The Magyars were crushed at the battle of what?

Answer 34

Battle of Lechfeld

Question 35

They are the lord's subordinate

Answer 35

Vassal

Question 36

These changes also furthered the development of farming

Answer 36

Technological changes

Question 37

In the early middle ages where there was little trade wealth was primarily based on what?

Answer 37

Land

Question 38

It was a piece of land held from the lord by a vassal in return for military service

Answer 38

Fief

Question 39

Fief-holding also became increasingly complicated with the development of what?

Answer 39

Subinfeudation

Question 40

They were long and narrow with beautifully carved arched prows

Answer 40

Viking ships

Question 42

What began to disintegrate after CHARLEGMAGNE died?

Answer 42

Carolingian Empire

Question 44

What is the major obligation of a vassal to his lord?

Answer 44

Perform military service for about 40 days a year

Question 45

What is the major obligation of the lord to his vassal?

Answer 45

Protection

Question 46

Who gave a band of Vikings land at the mouth if Seine River?

Answer 46

The ruler of western Frankish lands

Question 47

It is land retained by the lord which might consist of 1/3 to 1/2 of the cultivated lands scattered throughout the manor

Answer 47

Demesne

Question 48

Where were windmills invented?

Answer 48

Persia

Question 49

Serfs worked about how many days a week?

Answer 49

3

Question 50

Laborsaving devices were mostly made of what?

Answer 50

Iron

Question 51

She assisted her sons in rebelling against Henry

Answer 51

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 52

They were bound to the land and required to provide labor services, pay rents, and be subject to the lord's jurisdiction?

Answer 52

Serfs

Question 53

Seine River became a territory known as what ?

Answer 53

Normandy

Question 53

In what century were larger horses along with the stirrup began to be used ?

Answer 53

8th century

Question 53

They came to have the greatest social prestige and formed the backbone of European aristocracy

Answer 53

Knights

Question 53

They were used to grind grain into flour

Answer 53

Watermills

Question 54

It made a forceful presence in every area of life

Answer 54

Recovery of the Catholic Church

Question 56

What is the population of Europe in the high middle ages?

Answer 56

74 million

Question 57

It is an economic system in which people invested in trade and goods

Answer 57

Commercial capitalism

Question 58

What was the reason for the increase of population?

Answer 58

peace after the invasions has ended

Question 59

It was crucial in making the carruca

Answer 59

Iron

Question 60

What are the factors that resulted in better growing conditions ( agricultural )

Answer 60

Improvement in climate and expansion of cultivated or arable land

Question 60

Who are the ones responsible for draining swamps and cutting down trees to accomplish cultivated or arable land?

Answer 60

Peasants

Question 61

Who did Eleanor marry after the annulment between her and King Louis?

Answer 61

Henry the duke of Normandy and count of Anjou

Question 62

They were constructed to increase the water power

Answer 62

Dams

Question 63

They were the most important devices for the harnessing of power before the invention of the steam engine in the 18th century

Answer 63

Watermills and windmills

Question 64

What's the population of Europe in the early middle ages?

Answer 64

About 38 million

Question 65

The peasant's daily diet is what?

Answer 65

Bread

Question 66

True or false | Many Western nobles loved war

Answer 66

True

Question 67

Who somewhat dominated her husband?

Answer 67

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 68

It is a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare pulled by teams of horses which could turn over the heavy clay soil north of the Alps

Answer 68

Carruca

Question 69

It represented a code of ethics that knight were supposed to uphold

Answer 69

Chivalry

Question 70

They were expected to treat captives as honored guests instead of throwing them in dungeons

Answer 70

Knights

Question 71

They made use of the cam in operating trip-hammers for hulling rice by the third century

Answer 71

The Chinese

Question 71

They are nobility of people who held real political, economic and social power

Answer 71

Aristocracy

Question 72

They were known for its high-quality wooden cloth

Answer 72

Towns of Flanders

Question 73

Who is the husband of Eleanor?

Answer 73

King Louis VII of France

Question 74

He became King Henry II of England

Answer 74

Henry duke of Normandy

Question 75

What enabled the Vikings to sail up European rivers and attack places at some distance inland?

Answer 75

Shallow draft

Question 76

This method prevented soil from being exhausted so quickly and more crops could now be grown

Answer 76

The rotation of crops

Question 77

They are two Venetian merchant brothers

Answer 77

Niccolo and Maffeo Polo

Question 78

They enabled millwrights to mechanize entire industries

Answer 78

The development of cam