Chapter 19_The Increasing Influence of Europe – Flashcards
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In the late 1200s, Marco Polo visited the court of
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Khubilai Khan
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Which of the following was not a problem faced by the late Byzantine empire?
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the inability of leaders to get the population to practice Christianity
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In 962 CE, Pope John XII presented the imperial crown to
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Otto of Saxony
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In the high middle ages, the state that seemed to have to most potential to re-create centralized, imperial rule was
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the Holy Roman Empire
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The single biggest obstacle to the rise of a powerful Holy Roman Empire was
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an ongoing conflict with the papacy
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The quip that the Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" is attributed to
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Voltaire
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In 987, the French nobles chose which of the following men as their king?
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High Capet
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Hugh Capet was crowned King of France in 987
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but it took centuries for the French kings to build a powerful, centralized state
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Which of the following states developed the most centralized political structure in its early stages?
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England
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In 1066, William of Normandy conquered
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England
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In Italy, the political structure was marked by
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a series of city-states and principalities
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The reconquest of lang from the Muslims occurred in
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the Iberian peninsula
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Which of the following factors does NOT help explain the increased agricultural production of the high middle ages?
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government financial support
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By the year 1300. the population of Europe had risen to around
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79 million
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The high middle ages witnessed
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a resurgence of urbanization
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The revival of urban society was most pronounced in
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Italy
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The Hanseatic League was a trading network that operated in the
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North Sea and Baltic Sea
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The phrase usually associated with the medieval social structure is
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"those who pray, those who fight, and those who work"
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The guilds of the high middle ages
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almost always admitted women as members
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Central to the philosophy of the high middle ages was the rediscovery of
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Aristotle
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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believed that it was possible to prove rationally that God exists
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During the high middle ages, the most popular saint was
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the Virgin Mary
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The Dominicans and Franciscans
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attacked materialism and allowed no personal possessions
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Who founded the orders of mendicants?
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St. Francis and St. Dominic
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The Waldensians
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advocated modest and simple lives
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Newfoundland was discovered around the year 1000 CE by the Scandinavian seafarer
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Leif Ericsson
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The reconquista occurred in
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Spain
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Which of the following was NOT a crusading order?
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Franciscans
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During the eleventh century, which of the following locations was captured from Muslims?
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Sicily
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The last surviving Islamic outpost in Spain was
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Granada
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Pope Urban II
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launched the crusades in 1095
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The only crusade that recaptured Jerusalem was the
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first crusade
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Jerusalem was captured in 1187 by
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Saladin
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Which of the following was a consequence of the fourth crusade?
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A new spirit of cooperation between Constantinople and western Europe
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Which of the following fell to the Turks in 1144
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Edessa
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The crusades
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increased trade between the eastern and western Mediterranean
