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The High Middle Ages witnessed the birth of a new political structure known as:

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National Monarchy

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King Henry II's important dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becket was related to:

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Whoever ultimately had legal jurisdiction over priests and church courts.

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The French Parlement never attained the importance of Parliament in England because:

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French nobility, unlike the English nobility was exempt from taxation

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After the signing of the Magna Carta, English government gradually became a:

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Constitutional Monarchy

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Frederick Barbarossa attempted to bypass the power of the papacy by:

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Forging an alliance with other German princes to oppose the Pope

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The last emperor who effectively ruled all the disparate pieces of the Holy Roman Emperor was:

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Fredrick II

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Evidenced by the lifestyle of Frederick II, the culture of medieval Sicily:

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Included many cultures such as Norman, Latin, Byzantine, and Muslim Arabic

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By the end of the thirteenth century, _________ had become the largest Spanish kingdom.

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Castile

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Alfonso II of Aragon ensured his control over his kingdom by:

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Documenting property transactions

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The Knights Hospitalier was initially founded for the purpose of:

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Care for pilgrims in a hospital in Jerusalem

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After 1187, the capital of the kingdom of Jerusalem was:

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Reestablished at Acre

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Venice facilitated the Crusading effort by:

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Providing ships and supplies to Crusaders

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Saint Francis of Assisi emphasized which religious themes in his ministry and new monastic order?

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Apostolic poverty and an imitation of the life of Christ

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Modern universities can trace their origin back to the:

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Abelard at Notre Dame in Paris

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The seven liberal arts that the universities of Europe established as their curriculum consisted of the:

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Trivium and quadrivium

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The term universitas originally meant:

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Corporation or guild

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Upon admission to university, medieval students typically spent four years studying the liberal arts, which meant:

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Advanced work in latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic

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Marie de France:

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wrote romances

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Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German poet known primarily for his:

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Story depicting the search for the Holy Grail

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The genre of literature most representative of urban culture during the High Middle Ages was the:

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Fabliau

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In towns, manufacturing was largely controlled by the:

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Trade guilds

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The essential features of the Romanesque architectural style are:

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Rounded arches, massive stone walls, and small windows

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Between 1000 and 1250 Europe:

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Took on many of the characteristics that define the modern west

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Texts like Marco Polo's Description of the World:

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Were a mix of facts and fiction

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Linguistically and ethnically, the Mongols were most closely related to the:

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Turks

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The leader who united the Mongol tribes and began the conquest of China was named:

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Temujin, who took the title chingiz khan

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In the early twelfth century, Genghis Khan quickly built up a large military force by:

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Incorporating the warriors of defeated tribes into his own army

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The expression "Mongol horde" actually comes from the:

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The Turkish word "ordure" meaning "tent"

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In the thirteenth century, Moscow became an important center because:

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It became a tribute-collecting center for the Mongol Khanate.

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After conquering territory in what is now Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, and Anatolia, the Mongols who controlled this territory, called the Ilkhanate, converted to:

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Islam

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Increasing European interest in African gold was driven by:

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Increasing demand for luxury good

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Parallel to the interest in the gold trade in Europe, several entrepreneurial empires were established by Europeans. Among the first was that created by the:

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The Catalans

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The Vikings did not permanently colonize the eastern coast of North America in part because:

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Relations with indigenous people

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The Norse colony in Greenland ceased to exist during the fourteenth century because:

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The climate had cooled considerably and farming was no longer possible

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The commerce that occurred as a result of the Pax Mongolica was facilitated by the introduction of:

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Double-entry bookkeeping and early forms of credit transfers

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Time became standardized in the fourteenth century due to:

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The invention and proliferation of mechanical clocks

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European art of the thirteenth century reflected a renewed interest in:

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God in nature, naturalism. Things painted as they looked

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A fresco painting is essentially a(n):

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Pigment mixed with plaster that is applied to a wall

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The medieval painter Giotto is remembered especially because he:

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Brought a deep humanity and naturalism to his religious images

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Dante's Divine Comedy depicts the poet's mythical journey through:

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Hell, purgatory, and heaven

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King Philip IV of France's ability to move Pope Clement V's court to Avignon demonstrates the:

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Gulf between the theoretical and actual power of the papacy

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The name "The Babylonian Captivity" for the Avignon papacy references the:

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The Jews' exile in Babylon during the sixth century B.C.E (pg. 341)

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Sovereignty can be defined as:

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Inviolable authority over a defined territory The ability to control a defined territory without challenge

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Although Louis IX's attempts at crusading were failures, they cemented his reputation as a:

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Protector of the Church

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Philip IV's decision to suppress the Knights Templar and exile Jews from France was driven by:

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Financial concerns - both groups were extremely wealthy, and Philip was in debt

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Edward I made the territory of _________ a settler colony of England.

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Wales

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The Stone of Destiny was taken to Westminster Abbey by Edward I:

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To demonstrate England's power of Scotland

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A fundamental source of conflict in the Hundred Years' War was that:

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The English King was a vassal of the French king for Gascony

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In the fourteenth century, Edward III argued that he was the legitimate heir of France based on a closer relationship to Philip IV of France than that of the new Valois king because:

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His mother was Philip IV's daughter

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The Seven Years' Famine occurred because:

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Europe had reached the limit of its ability to supply food for its population and the climate cooled by approximately two degrees centigrade

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Aside from starvation, the most devastating effect of the Great Famine was the:

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Compromised immune system of those who survived

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The Black Death appears to have originated in:

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Eastern and Central Asia; China 1334

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Bubonic plague is spread by:

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Flea bites

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