World History Test

Question 1

Who did the French nobility select?

Answer 1

Philip of Valois, he was the cousin of the last King Charles IV

Question 2

Who was king Philip chosen over?

Answer 2

Edward III of England

Question 3

What title did Edward III claim?

Answer 3

King of France

Question 4

What was an issue in France

Answer 4

Their was land that belonged to English kings that was located in France territory

Question 5

What was Edward to Philip

Answer 5

He was a vassal for Philip

Question 6

What was the Norman conquest

Answer 6

It was the least successful conquest on England

Question 7

Was France a united country before the war began?

Answer 7

No, the king only controlled about half of the country

Question 8

Characteristics of the war

Answer 8

Some short raids and expeditions, few major battles, truces and ineffective treaties,

Question 9

What did the victor depend on?

Answer 9

Where and how they fought

Question 10

Sporadic

Answer 10

Random

Question 11

Advantages of England

Answer 11

Weapon tech, engage quick, profitable raids

Question 12

Advantages of France

Answer 12

Rich, more population, had an army of 50,000

Question 13

Longbow for England

Answer 13

Huge advantage of England, penetrating power, could fire rapidly

Question 14

Who was successful at the beginning,

Answer 14

England, captured king John at battle of Poitiers, protest started to form because war was ruining countryside

Question 15

What was France ruled by

Answer 15

A parliament, representatives make laws

Question 16

Who put down the peasant revolt

Answer 16

King Richard II, as a result he was forced to abdicate(to renounce his throne)

Question 17

Who takes over the throne after king Richard II

Answer 17

Henry IV(first ruler from Lancaster)

Question 18

What ended the fighting between French and British

Answer 18

A truce that was signed

Question 19

What appeared at the court of King Charles VII

Answer 19

Joan of arc

Question 20

Joan of arc

Answer 20

She heard voices saying that France needed help

Question 21

What made the reconquest of the north of France

Answer 21

Joan of arc led the French rally and drove the English out

Question 22

What is an autocrat

Answer 22

A person ruling with unlimited authority

Question 23

How did people feel about King John’s reign

Answer 23

They disliked it because he argued against the pope to try and gain full control

Question 24

What was the manga carta

Answer 24

A document that limited the powers of the king to the extent that they were just the same as everyone else

Question 25

What were two demands made by the nobility to King John

Answer 25

The church shall be free and so shall the kingdom

Question 26

What was absolutism?

Answer 26

One ruler has complete power

Question 27

What was the renaissance

Answer 27

A cultural movement in early Europe

Question 28

When did historians believed the renaissance was at its peak

Answer 28

Late 16 centuries

Question 29

What did the renaissance produce

Answer 29

Dramatic changes in art, architecture, and culture

Question 30

Which artists embraced realism and individualism

Answer 30

Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci

Question 31

What did humanist believe

Answer 31

Human achievements were as important as religious theory

Question 32

What did artist and writers think of the Italian renaissance?

Answer 32

They believe they were creating something totally new, but we’re reviving teachings of the ancient world

Question 33

What does renaissance mean?

Answer 33

French for rebirth

Question 34

Who experienced the renaissance more than others

Answer 34

Wealthy men

Question 35

What does renaissance man used to describe?

Answer 35

Someone who has a broad knowledge in many topics

Question 36

Did women participate in the Renaissance?

Answer 36

Yes, in arts and women’s education as well as political theory

Question 37

What made Italian bankers and merchants rich?

Answer 37

Trade

Question 38

What family dominated the politics of Florence

Answer 38

The Medici

Question 39

What group was another Renaissance ruler?

Answer 39

The Ottomans

Question 40

Who is the famous writer inspired by themes in Islamic poetry

Answer 40

Petrarch

Question 41

What did Italian merchants do to have access to western African gold?

Answer 41

Funded Portuguese mariners to sell further and further south

Question 42

What did Renaissance Europe feature?

Answer 42

A great deal of racial, ethnic and religious diversity

Question 43

How did the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church during the Renaissance led to the protestant reformation?

Answer 43

The selling of indulgences, where people could buy forgiveness for their sins

Question 44

What effects did the protestant reformation have on Europe politically economically and culturally?

Answer 44

Freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, the dignity of the individual, and political democracy

Question 45

Causes of the Protestant reformation

Answer 45

Spread of non-religious ideas, rulers hated the control of the Popes, merchants stop paying taxes to the churches, popes were corrupt in the Catholic Church

Question 46

Martin Luther

Answer 46

German Catholic monk who studied law

Question 47

What did Martin Luther do?

Answer 47

Took a public stand against the selling of indulgences

Question 48

When did Martin Luther write 95 theses

Answer 48

1517

Question 49

What were the 95 theses

Answer 49

95 ideas how to reform the Roman Catholic Church

Question 50

What was the name of of Christian churches who did not accept the pope’s authority?

Answer 50

Protestant

Question 51

Three main ideas of Luther

Answer 51

People could win salvation, only by faith of God, all church, teaching bases on the Bible, all people with the faith were equal

Question 52

Who saw Luther as a serious threat

Answer 52

The pope

Question 53

What did the pope do to Luther?

Answer 53

Excommunicated him

Question 54

Who put Luther on trial?

Answer 54

Emperor Charles V

Question 55

Edict of worms

Answer 55

No one could help Luther or else they should be as bad as him

Question 56

What is the piece of Augsburg do?

Answer 56

You could choose what religion they wanted

Question 57

What did King Henry VIII do to get a male heir

Answer 57

Married six times

Question 58

Who were Henry’s children?

Answer 58

Edward VI(protestant) Mary(catholic) Elizabeth I(protestant)

Question 59

Did King Philip do?

Answer 59

Invaded England, thinking he could win because they had a woman ruler

Question 60

What were results of the reformation?

Answer 60

Protestant churches flourished, religion, no longer united Europe, individual monarchs, gained power, nation states developed,

Question 61

Probabilities of the cause of the black day

Answer 61

From bacteria, rats, fleas

Question 62

Where did the black plague come from?

Answer 62

Gobi desert, from trade routes and caravans

Question 63

Some attempts to stop the plague

Answer 63

Doctors robe – believe the disease was spread to bad smell Try to use leeches to remove the bad humors

Question 64

What were the crusades?

Answer 64

A series of eight wars by West European Christians in attempt to recapture the holy land from the Muslims, Jerusalem

Question 65

Importance to Jews, Christians, and Muslim of Jerusalem

Answer 65

Jews-sight of Abrahams covenant with Yahweh Christian-site of Jesus crucifixion Muslim-Mohammed ascent into heaven

Question 66

When did the crusades begin?

Answer 66

1095

Question 67

Who is under control of Jerusalem originally?

Answer 67

The Abbasids

Question 68

What did the pope do to motivate people to join the crusade?

Answer 68

Promise, salvation, peasants, receives freedom, adventure, and possible wealth

Question 69

Outcome of the crusades

Answer 69

Jerusalem Falls to the Crusaders

Question 70

Effects of the crusades

Answer 70

Helped to breakdown feudalism and it increased power of the kings in Europe