Middle Ages Unit Review

Question 1

Augustine becomes a Christian in:

Answer 1

386 AD

Question 2

Battle of Tours was in:

Answer 2

732 AD

Question 3

Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor:

Answer 3

800 AD

Question 4

The Children’s Crusade was in:

Answer 4

1212 AD

Question 5

The Black Death was from:

Answer 5

1345-1349 AD

Question 6

The Year the Papacy Returned to Rome was in:

Answer 6

1378 AD

Question 7

The End of the Great Schism was in:

Answer 7

1417 AD

Question 8

The Hundred Years’ War was from:

Answer 8

1336-1453 AD

Question 9

Nicolaus Copernicus:

Answer 9

Said the earth was not the centre of the Universe.

Question 10

Constantine:

Answer 10

Legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire after 312 AD

Question 11

First Crusade:

Answer 11

Led by nobles and knights and took back Jerusalem for 80 years.

Question 12

Children’s Crusade:

Answer 12

20,000 children tried to free the Holy Land but most were sold into slavery and did not make it.

Question 13

Charlemagne:

Answer 13

King who unified the Germanic tribes and was made the Holy Roman Emperor.

Question 14

Augustine:

Answer 14

Considered to be a Father of the church.

Question 15

Attila the Hun:

Answer 15

Leader of the Huns from Eastern Europe who attacked the west.

Question 16

Black Death:

Answer 16

Bubonic plague which killed millions of Europeans in the Middle Ages.

Question 17

Monica:

Answer 17

Mother of Augustine, a devout Christian who prayed for her son to be converted.

Question 18

What is Arianism?

Answer 18

The teaching that Jesus and God are not of the same essence.

Question 19

How did Charlemagne use monks and why?

Answer 19

He used them as servants to report on various counts throughout his kingdom. They could be trusted due to their pledge of honesty.

Question 20

What were indulgences and why/how were they used?

Answer 20

They were sold as a way to finance the church’s special programs like the crusades. It was a parchment sold to save one’s soul from purgatory. They were also called “Passports to Paradise”.

Question 21

What is the difference between a monk and a friar?

Answer 21

A monk worked in a monastery and a friar traveled from place to place to preach much like a modern day missionary.

Question 22

Name three reasons people went on crusades.

Answer 22

1. To carry out the will of Christ.
2. For a forgiveness of sins.
3. To gain new land for themselves.

Question 23

Explain the rhyme scheme in Ballads.

Answer 23

Ballads were written and in an ABAB rhyme scheme.

Question 24

The Bible story that supports the earth as the centre of the universe and sun and moon orbit the earth.

Answer 24

• Joshua 10
• Asks God to to have the moon and sun stand still in the sky
• The Israelites were victorious
• scripture says, the sun stood still in the sky for about the length of a full day.
• Lord rained hailstones on the Amorites.
• The five kings hid in a cave.
• were later brought out and killed by Joshua.

Question 25

Explain the reason for disease and death ( The Black Death).

Answer 25

- Little concern for hygiene. - Poor living conditions - infestation of diseased rats that were carried in on trading ships. - first place to be infected was Italian city of Genoa.