The Medieval World - Part 1

Question 1

The Middle Ages/Medieval Period (Date)

Answer 1

A.D. 500 - 1500

Question 2

Divisions of the Medieval Ages

Answer 2

Early, High, and Late Middle Ages

Question 3

Charles Martel Defeats the Muslims (Date)

Answer 3

A.D. 732

Question 4

Where Charles Martel Defeated the Muslims

Answer 4

Tours

Question 5

Ended the Northern Expansion of the Muslims [into Europe]

Answer 5

Charles Martel

Question 6

Charlemagne crowned emperor (Date)

Answer 6

December 25, 800

Question 7

The era of the Crusades

Answer 7

A.D. 1095 - 1291

Question 8

Crowned Charlemagne

Answer 8

Pope Leo III

Question 9

Fourth Lateran Council affirms Transubstantiation

Answer 9

A.D. 1215

Question 10

What marked the end of Muslim northern expansion

Answer 10

Charles Martel’s defeat of Muslim forces at Tours

Question 11

Christendom

Answer 11

Church and state fused together

Question 12

Curia

Answer 12

Became the “College of the Cardinals”

Question 13

Created to select a pope

Answer 13

The College of the Cardinals[/Curia]

Question 14

Primogeniture

Answer 14

The right of an eldest son to succeed to the estate of his father at the exclusion of all his siblings

Question 15

Simony

Answer 15

The buying and selling of spiritual or church benefits

Question 16

Franks

Answer 16

Germanic peoples with a kingdom located in modern France and Germany

Question 17

Served as Mayor of the Palace

Answer 17

Charles Martel

Question 18

“The Hammer”

Answer 18

Charles Martel

Question 19

Gave the pope territory in central Italy

Answer 19

Pepin the Great

Question 20

The name for the papal territory in central Italy

Answer 20

The Papal States

Question 21

True or False: Charlemagne’s empire established his rule over much of the former Roman Empire in Europe

Answer 21

True

Question 22

City where Charlemagne was crowned

Answer 22

Rome

Question 23

Attached the notion of church-state cooperation to Europe, handing down the tradition of “Christendom”

Answer 23

Charlemagne

Question 24

The name of the cultural rebirth precipitated by Charlemagne

Answer 24

Carolingian Rennaissance

Question 25

Groups to invade/attack Europe from the 8th to the 11th Centuries

Answer 25

Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars

Question 26

Another name for Vikings

Answer 26

Norsemen

Question 27

Location of Scandinavia

Answer 27

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

Question 28

Home of the Vikings

Answer 28

Scandinavia

Question 29

True or False: The Vikings terrorized coastal European peoples and visited North America

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Group to terrorize Europe in the early 900s until they were halted by Otto I

Answer 30

Magyars

Question 31

Halted the Magyar conquests

Answer 31

Otto I

Question 32

True or False: After defeat by Otto I, the Magyars refused to integrate themselves into mainstream European culture

Answer 32

False

Question 33

Knight

Answer 33

Term describing any nobleman who took up arms

Question 34

The two systems which emerged in the Middle Ages providing law-order and economic livelihood at the local level

Answer 34

Feudalism and manorialism

Question 35

True or False: Under feudalism and manorialism, localism dominated

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Describe feudalistic structure

Answer 36

1. A lord grantied land to a vassal 2. A vassal was in charge of the fief he received

Question 37

Fief

Answer 37

A land grant to a vassal

Question 38

True or False: Feudalism was not a political relationship

Answer 38

False

Question 39

What kind of relationship was manorialism

Answer 39

An economic relationship

Question 40

In which system did serfs live on the lord's manor

Answer 40

Manorialism

Question 41

Central location of the Holy Roman Empire

Answer 41

The German States and Northern Italy

Question 42

Holy Roman Emperor to emerge as the strongest power in Europe [in the 10th century]

Answer 42

Otto I

Question 43

Duke of Normandy to become the King of England

Answer 43

William the Conqueror

Question 44

The Battle William the Conqueror fought [defeating Harold II]

Answer 44

The Battle of Hastings

Question 45

Was William the Conqueror a Holy Roman Emperor?

Answer 45

No

Question 46

Did William the Conqueror renounce his rule of Normandy when he conquered England?

Answer 46

No

Question 47

Cluniac Reform

Answer 47

A movement countering decline beginning at the monastery of Cluny in East France

Question 48

The Investiture Struggle

Answer 48

[A.D. 1075-1077 and beyond]; investiture was the claim of kings/rulers to appoint bishops and abbots; the pope viewed it as symbolising lay authority over the church

Question 49

True or False: The concepts of Simony and Primogeniture have no relation to investiture and the Investiture struggle

Answer 49

False

Question 50

The “Combatants” (power conflict) in the Investiture struggle

Answer 50

Poor Gregory VII vs. the German king Henry IV

Question 51

Who pressured Henry IV into submitting to the pope

Answer 51

The nobles, through rebellion

Question 52

Where Henry IV submitted, surrendered, to the pope

Answer 52

Canossa

Question 53

Result of the Investiture Struggle

Answer 53

Prestige gain for the pope and [power] loss for the king

Question 54

Convened the Council of Clermont

Answer 54

Pope Urban II

Question 55

Purpose of the Council of Clermont

Answer 55

Pope Urban II called Christendom to unite to protect the Holy Sepulchre from further Muslim attack

Question 56

True or False: Crusaders [from the Council of Clermont] were motivated by the desire to earn their salvation

Answer 56

True

Question 57

The Crusade [the only militarily successful crusade] which destroyed villages and committed anti-Semitic atrocities

Answer 57

The First Crusade [specifically the Peasants' Crusade]

Question 58

The Crusade which took Jerusalem and massacred the inhabitants

Answer 58

The First Crusade [specifically, the Crusade of Princes]

Question 59

The Crusade undertaken after Saladin took over Jerusalem

Answer 59

Third Crusade

Question 60

Muslim leader that took over Jerusalem

Answer 60

Saladin

Question 61

Crusade which attacked Constantinople

Answer 61

Fourth Crusade

Question 62

Results of the Crusades

Answer 62

1. Promoted the rise of towns and trade 2. Increased conflict between Eastern and Western churches

Question 63

Indulgence

Answer 63

It can be partial or plenary as it removes either part or all of the temporary punishment due to sin

Question 64

Excommunication

Answer 64

The cutting off of an individual from the church and its sacraments

Question 65

Interdict

Answer 65

Closed churches in a geographical area and forbade celebrating mass and other sacraments

Question 66

Purpose of the interdict

Answer 66

It was designed to cause such a uproar from the masses, who would fear for their salvation, that the ruler would have to submit [to the pope]

Question 67

The Inquisition

Answer 67

An ecclesiastical court for the persecution of heresy

Question 68

Latin term for “brother” used as a monastic title

Answer 68

Friar

Question 69

School of monks that helped develop aspects of the present system of Roman Catholic theology

Answer 69

Dominicans

Question 70

Franciscans

Answer 70

School of monks founded by Francis of Assisi that conducted missionary work in the New World

Question 71

California Missions

Answer 71

The Franciscan missionary work in the new world

Question 72

The most powerful pope; claimed authority to rule the whole world

Answer 72

Pope Innocent III

Question 73

King John

Answer 73

English king that collected dues illegally; the barons (nobles) revolted and forced him to sign the Magna Carta

Question 74

The Magna Carta

Answer 74

The charter with the implied idea that the law is above the king

Question 75

Unam Sanctum

Answer 75

Papal bull that asserted there is no salvation outside of the RCC

Question 76

Merchant guilds

Answer 76

Designed to regulate commerce

Question 77

Craft guilds

Answer 77

Regulated professions

Question 78

Commercial and professional developments in medieval life

Answer 78

Merchant and craft guilds

Question 79

Scholasticism

Answer 79

The name given to a theology that developed in "schools"

Question 80

The aim of scholastics

Answer 80

To demonstrate through deductive logic what they knew to be true by faith

Question 81

The greatest of the scholastics

Answer 81

Thomas Aquinas

Question 82

Was Aquinas a Franciscan or Dominican

Answer 82

Dominican