Flashcards and Answers – ch.20 ap world history
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In the late 1200s, Marco Polo visited the court of
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Mongols
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For centuries, Western Europe was inspired by a dream of unification and greatness similar to that of
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In 962 C.E,. Pope John XII presented the imperial crown to
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Otto
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In the High Middle Ages, the state that seemed to have the most potential to re
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create centralized, imperial rule was-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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conflict with the papacy, emperors sought to influence the selection of church officials
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The investiture contest centered on
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the appointment of church officials
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In a larger sense, the investiture contest represented
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the power of popes vs. emperors
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The investiture contest reached its peak with a struggle between Pope Gregory VII and
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Emperor Henry IV
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The popes blocked Frederick Barbarossa in his attempt to gain control over
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Lombardy
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The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's attempt to gain control of Lombardy was blocked by
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the popes
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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 French writer
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In 987, the French nobles chose which of the following men as their king?
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Hugh Capet
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Hugh Capet was crowned King of France in 987
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held a small territory around Paris
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Which of the following states developed the most centralized political structure in its early stages?
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In 1066, William of Normandy conquered
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England
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The Bayeux tapestry depicts
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King Louis IX hears the petitions of humble subjects while hanged criminals serve as a reminder of felony's results
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In Italy, the political structure was marked by
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city states
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The Reconquista took place in
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Spain
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Which of the following factors did not help explain the increased agricultural production of the High Middle Ages?
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expansion of arable lands, refined agricultural techniques (cultivation of beans ^, domesticated animals, crop rotations improved, raised fish in ponds, books with agricultural techniques published) watermills and heavy plows as well also the horseshoe and horse collar.
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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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economic growth and development (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
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Baltic and North 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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Eleanor of Aquitaine was famous for
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most celebrates women of her day, she used her influence to encourage the cultivation of good manners, refinement, and romantic love
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The guilds of the High Middle Ages
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they regulated production and sales of goods, controlled the urban economy
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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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most famous of the Scholastic theologians most of his career was teaching at the University of Paris, theology dealing with Aristotle and Christianity
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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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St. Dominic and St. Francis founded orders of beggars, who would have no personal possessions and would have to beg for their food and other stuff from the people they preached to
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Who, according to Thomas of Celano, was the "father of the poor"?
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"St. Francis"
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The Waldensians
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despised the roman catholic clergy as immoral and corrupt and they advocated simple and modest lives
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Which of the following statements is not true about the Cathars?
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called Albigensians, adopted the teachings of heretical groups in eastern Europe who viewed the world as the site of an unrelenting cosmic struggle between the forces of good and evil
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Newfoundland was discovered around the year 1000 C.E. by the Scandinavian seafarer
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Leif Erickson
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Which of the following was not a crusading order?
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Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights
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During the eleventh century, Roger Guiscard
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conquered Sicily
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The last surviving Islamic outpost in Spain was
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Granada
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The first attempt, in response to Pope Urban II's appeal for a crusade, came from
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Peter the Hermit
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Pope Urban II
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launched the crusades, seize the holy land
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The only crusade that recaptured Jerusalem was the
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the 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 not a consequence of the fourth crusade?
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(pg. 533)
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The fourth crusade managed to capture and sack the city of
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Constantinople
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The Crusades
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(pg. 533)
