Random Questions

Question 1

Who led the victorious forces at the Battle of Tours?

Answer 1

Charles Martel

Question 2

Saladin was the leader of ?

Answer 2

The Muslims during the Crusades, who battles Richard the lionhearted

Question 3

Which of the following leaders brought Christianity to the Franks?

Answer 3

Clovis

Question 4

Pope whose call to action resulted in the first crusade ?

Answer 4

Urban 2

Question 5

What race was also called Norsemen or Northmen?

Answer 5

Vikings

Question 6

Western Europe was reunited for the first time after the fall of the Roman Empire under who ?

Answer 6

Charlemagne

Question 7

Who does a knight fight for based on his code of chivalry?

Answer 7

His feudal lord
His heavenly Lord
His lady

Question 8

What effects of the crusades?

Answer 8

Trade expanded
Weakened power of the pope
A bitterness and hatred between Christians and Muslims

Question 9

Who led the Norman conquest of England?

Answer 9

William the Conqueror

Question 10

What ended the Middle Ages?

Answer 10

The end of the Hundred Years’ War

Question 11

What made the English win many battles during the hundred year war?

Answer 11

Longbows

Question 12

Vernacular language was?

Answer 12

The common language of the people

Question 13

Who did Henry 2 marry to gain lands from France?

Answer 13

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 14

What was the nagana carta?

Answer 14

Fist document guaranteeing rights in England

Question 15

Impact of the three field system?

Answer 15

1 longevity: longer life
2 population increase
3 bigger & stronger work force
4 production increase by 66%

Question 16

Russian culture is a mix of what?

Answer 16

Vikings and Slavs

Question 17

Eastern Orthodox capital was located where ?

Answer 17

Constantinople

Question 18

Russian emperor who sent missionaries out in four directions and brought back Eastern Orthodox was

Answer 18

Vladimir

Question 19

The term the Abbasids used to refer to their Turkish slaves was..

Answer 19

Mameluke

Question 20

Who was a Byzantium emperor who wrote a letter asking for help of the Pope?

Answer 20

Alexis Comnenus

Question 21

Pope who agreed to help Alexis Comnenus & the Eastern Orthodox Christian (after the schism) ?

Answer 21

Pope Urban 2, because he though even though they spilt it was still right to help the easterners because they were Christian

Question 22

Mongolians originated from where?

Answer 22

Asian steppes

Question 23

Mongols were pastoralists meaning?

Answer 23

They domesticated animals and were nomatic

Question 24

He Mongolian dynasty in China was called?

Answer 24

Yuan

Question 25

Who conquered china for the Mongolians?

Answer 25

Kublai Khan

Question 26

Why didn't the Mongolians take over Japan?

Answer 26

Kamikaze (great wind)

Question 27

Huguenots where who?

Answer 27

French Calvinists whom threatened the staunchly Catholic french monarchy.

Question 28

Utopia means?

Answer 28

"No place"

Question 29

Which region did the Renaissance begin?

Answer 29

Northern Italy

Question 30

First book printed?

Answer 30

The Bible

Question 31

The Aztecs thought the arrival of the Spanish marked the return of who?

Answer 31

Quetzalcoatl

Question 32

The peninsular war was between?

Answer 32

France vs Spanish guerrillas

Question 33

Who won the battle of Trafalgar?

Answer 33

Britain (Horatio)

Question 34

Where is the site of napoleons last defeat?

Answer 34

Waterloo

Question 35

The economic hardships that France faced in the late 1700s were largely due to long, costly hostility between France and who?

Answer 35

Great Britain

Question 36

Who led a slave revolt that ended slavery on the island of Hispaniola?

Answer 36

L'overture

Question 37

Who was the last absolute monarch in France before the revolution?

Answer 37

Louis XVI

Question 38

What was a time period in Europe where people questioned accepted beliefs of the church and changed views concerning the natural world?

Answer 38

Scientific revolution

Question 39

Who created checks and balances?

Answer 39

Montesquieu

Question 40

What are three reasons for the French Revolution?

Answer 40

1 Gap between the rich & the poor 2 the third estate had no power 3 bad leading 4 debt