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The early medieval church in the West

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B. developed a more organized monastic structure under Saint Benedict.

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The organization of the Roman Catholic church

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A. was fundamentally strengthened as the pope became the recognized head of church in the west.

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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 us of a fine called

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A. wergeld

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Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries?

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B. They served as centers of learning.

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Charlemagne's oversifht representatives, the messengers of the lord king, were the

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C. missi dominici

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Charlemagne's carolingian empire accomplished all of the following except

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

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Monasticism in medieval Europe

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C. 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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B. the Magyars

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The incursions of the Scandinavian Vikings into other parts of Europe

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B. were successful in part because of 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 relationship involving

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D. lords and vassals.

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The piece of land that provided the feudal vassal's economic support was the

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A. fief.

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Aristocratic medieval women

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A. 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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E. was a result of the Church's attempt to give serfs and peasants more social mobility

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Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the Early Middle Ages

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B. The Stirrup

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Vassals

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C. were supported by the income from a fief of land

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As a result of the Norman conquest of 1066

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A. King William ordered a census of his new kingdom

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The english king most responsible for establishing the common law was

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D. Henry II

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By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the english parliament

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

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

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C. Estates-General

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The early Capetian kings of France

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B. were effective rulers only in the area around Paris.

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

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B. became the Holy Roman Emporer

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The Saxon king who created a new Roman Empire that included Germany and Italy was

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C. Otto I

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Central issues complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were

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E. both a and c

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The Principality of Kiev was founded by

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B. Scandinavian Vikigs

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

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C. Magyar dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russian unity.

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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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C. Cyril and Methodius

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The Slavs

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C. were divided into two religious groups, with most southern and eastern Slavs becoming Orthodox and most northern and western Slavs becoming Roman Catholic

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During the High Middle Ages

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C. agricultural productivity improved

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High Middle Ages agriculture included all except

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E. 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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A. Manorialism provided the economic foundation of feudalism

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Which of the following is not an example of the nature of the medieval serfs lives?

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A. They had more privileges than a burgher.

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All of the following were true of the medieval peasants lives except

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C. many became 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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C. 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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C. Papal authority had diminished by the thirteenth century.

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The Dominican friars

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B. 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 the poor was

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C. the Franciscans

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The medieval university

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A. was originally an educational association of students and scholars as at Bologna

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All of the following are true about scholasticism except

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D. 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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B. flying butresses

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Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture

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D. thich walls

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All of the following were motives for the crusades except

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C. 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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B. Belisarius

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The Fourth Crusade resulted in

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B. the fall of Constantinople

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The early fourteenth century was troubled by

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A. the ''little ice age''

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The Black Death

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A. was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis.

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Flagellants

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D. 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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A. 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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C. was moved to Avignon.

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The Great Schism

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B. saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope

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The council which ended the Great Schism was the council of

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D. Constance

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