Atassi Chapter 8 Quiz – Flashcards
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The dominant motive for going on the First Crusade was:
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religious
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The Norman Conquest of England took place in:
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1066
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One of the major contributors to the agricultural boom after Charlemagne was:
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the heavy-wheeled plow.
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Which leader recaptured Jerusalem in 1187?
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Saladin
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In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, lords began to encourage trade and commerce by permitting safe havens in principalities; this was especially true in:
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the Rhineland and the Low Countries.
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The three field system of crop rotation:
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a. increased the amount of arable land. b. provided insurance against natural disaster. c. made it possible to support healthier animals. D.>>> all of the above
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Which eleventh- and twelfth-century cities controlled the carrying trade between Constantinople, Alexandria, and the West?
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Venice, Pisa, and Genoa
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One manifestation of the growing popular spirituality of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was:
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the reverence for, and devotion to, relics.
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The greatest advantage of the manorial system in terms of productivity was that it:
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allowed the adoption of new and more efficient systems of crop rotation.
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The first successful attempt to restore the spiritual legitimacy of the Latin church:
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can be traced to the establishment of the monastery at Cluny.
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In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the predatory lords who were rising to power often solidified territories by:
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building castles.
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In their dispute over the investiture of bishops, Pope Gregory not only excommunicated the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, but also:
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suggested that Henry IV's subjects had a sacred duty to rebel against Henry's leadership.
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Around the year 1000 the most powerful monarchs on the European continent were:
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the Saxon kings of Francia.
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Pope Gregory VII took his reforms to the level of religious dogma by:
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defining them as "a truth necessary for salvation."
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Where were the effects of the Crusades most disastrous?
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Byzantium
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In 1099, the crusading armies took Jerusalem and slaughtered:
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a. Muslims. b. Christians. c. Jews. D. >>>all of the above
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A fief was:
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a gift or grant creating a contractual relationship between the giver and the receiver.
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The Carolingian dynasty in France was replaced by which dynasty in 987?
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Capetian
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Perhaps the most influential Muslim scholar to help purify and preserve the study of Aristotle's thought was:
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Averreos Ibn Rushd.
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In asserting his power and authority, Pope Gregory VII:
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argued that popes had the power to judge all people but could not themselves be judged.
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Iceland may have been the location of the first parliamentary democracy when the settlers there formed a legislative assembly in:
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930.
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One of the results of the Crusades was that:
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various Italian trading cities profited greatly from trade with and through the Muslim powers for goods from the east.
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Pope Nicholas II created the College of Cardinals to:
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elect the popes and be the legislative body of the Church.
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The influence of Cluniac monastic reform was strongest in:
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France and Italy.
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The Byzantines were conservative regarding classical knowledge, and Emperor Alexius Comnenus eventually:
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banned the teaching of Aristotelian logic.
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Which pope proclaimed the First Crusade at Clermont in 1095?
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Urban II
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In the mid-eleventh century, in an effort to raise money to support its military and defend itself against external attacks, Byzantium:
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debased its gold currency.
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At Canossa in the winter of 1077:
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Henry IV humiliated himself before Pope Gregory VII.
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The relationship between a lord and vassal was made solemn by an act of:
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homage.
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Manors began to take shape after the ninth century when:
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villagers began to combine their lands into common fields.
