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The early medieval church in the West

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developed a more organized monastic structure under Saint Benedict

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In an effort to avoid the potential mayhem of the Germanic system of personal revenge for the punishment of crimes, an alternative system arose that made use of a fine called

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wergeld

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Which of the following was accomplished by medival Christian monasteries?

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The served as centers of learning

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Charlemagne's oversight representatives, the "messengers of the lord king," were the

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missi dominici

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Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire accomplished all of the following except

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it restored an urban economy based upon the use of money.

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Monasticism in medieval Europe

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included women, many of whom belonged to royal families

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Who were the Asian people, defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld, who became Christians and went on to establish the kingdom of Hungary?

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The Magyars

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The incursions of the Scandinavian VIkings into other parts of Europe

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were successful in part becauseof their ships had a shallow draft, allowing them to sail far up rivers, raiding and pillaging as they went

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The personal element of feudalism was most symbolized in the relationships involving

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lords and vassals

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the peice of land that prvided the feudal bassal's economic support was the

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fief

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Aristorcratic medieval wormen

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in unusual circumstances, could play a major role, as did Eleanor of Aquitaine

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All of the following are correct regarding the development of fief-holding except it

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was a result of the Church's attempt to give serfs and peasants more social movility

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Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the early Middle Ages?

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The stirrup

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Vassals

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were supported by the income from a fief of land.

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They english king most responsible for establishing the "common law" was

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Henry II.

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Bye the end of the Thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the English Parliament

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was a system of power sharing between the monarch and groups within the society.

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France's first parliament, begun under Philip IV, was the

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Estates-General

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The early Capetian Kings of France

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were effective rulers only in the area around Paris.

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Philip II Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except he

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became the Holy Roman Emperor

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Central issue(s) complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were

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bothe the difficulty of simultaneously controlling the Italian and German areas of the empire and the opposition by the popes and the cities of northern Itialy

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The Principality of Kiev was founded by

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Scandinavian Vikings

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all of the following were true about the development of Russia except

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Magyar dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russia development

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The missionary brothers who created the Slavonic, or Cyrillic, alphabet, translated the Bible into Slavonic, and who developed Slavonic church services were

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Cyril and Methodius

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The Slaves

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were divided into two religious groups, whith most southern and eastern Slavs becoming Othodox and most norhtern and western Slavs becoming Roman Catholic

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High Middle Ages agriculture included all except

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the use of slave labor

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Which of the following is a valid statement about manorialism and the medieval manor?

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Manorialism provided the economic foundation of feudalism.

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All of the following were true of the medieval peasants' life except

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they were members of agricultural craft guilds

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Which of the following was not true about medieval towns and cities?

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They were food-producing, self-sufficient units, in which commerce was secondary.

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Which of the following was not true about medieval Christianity?

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Papal authority had diminished by the thirteenth century.

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The Dominican friars

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were first led by the highly intellectual Dominic de Guzman.

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The medieval religious order which was noted for its commitment to living among the common people and ministering to the poor was the

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Franciscans

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The medieval university

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was originally an educational association of students or scholars, as at Bologna.

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All of the following are true about scholasticism except

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the author of the Summa Theologica was Abelard dun Scotus.

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Which of the following was not characteristic of Romanesque architecture?

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flying buttresses

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Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture?

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thick walls

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All of the following were motives for the Crusades except

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the aim to increase religious toleration between Muslims and Christians.

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Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except

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Belisarius.

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The Forth Crusade resulted in the

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fall of Constantinople.

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The early fourteenth century was troubled by

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the "little ice age."

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The Black Death

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was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis.

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Flagellants

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were Christian fanatics who physically scourged themselves during the Black Death.

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All of the following regarding the Hundred Years War are correct except

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traditional nobles fighting on horseback were the keys to victory.

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In the early fourteenth century, the Catholic church

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was moved to Avignon

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The Great Schism

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saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope.

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The council that ended the Great Schism was the council of

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Constance.

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The Italian Renaissance was

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all of these except a mass movement.

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An Itallian intellectual who hunted down ancient manuscripts and emphasized pure Latin was

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Petrarch

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The principles of Early Renaissance art

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were demonstrated in the frescoes of Masaccio, which employed the laws of perspective and a more realistic relationship between figures and landscape.

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The divine beauty of the ceiling figures in the Sistine Chapel are a reflection of the Neoplationism of

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Michelangelo.

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All of the following were true of the political recovery of the fifteenth century in Europe except that

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centralized monarchies gained strength in Germanic central Europe.

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