HIS 101 – Flashcard
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With most of Europe lacking effective monarchies between 880 and 950, who filled the power vacuum?
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Local lords
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Upon what three supports did royal ideology claim royalty rested?
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Workers, warriors, and priests
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Otto sought to open up relations with the
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Byzantines
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In his contest of wills with King John of England, Pope Innocent prevailed because he was
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the more astute politician
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Why did kings and magnates have an interest in promoting towns and cities in their realms?
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Towns and cities lay outside the direct control of nobles or could be dislodged from their control
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One reason that more sophisticated commercial contracts and loan structures developed was to avoid the church prohibition on usury, which is
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charging interest
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Why did people prefer Richard the Lionheart over his father, Henry II?
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Richard was larger than life and every inch the ideal chivalrous king
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What did John of Salisbury and the intellectuals that he found in Paris seek to achieve?
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a rational explanation of the world that reflected the divine will
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To people of the High Middle Ages, their soaring Gothic cathedrals reflected
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a perfect form of Christian society
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The associations of craftsmen that were formed to control production were called
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Guilds
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Why did so many insurrections break out in Europe after the plague?
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They were a product of the raised expectations of the lower classes
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Why did King John return to captivity in England after he was freed?
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The duke of Anjou's escape and betrayal of the chivalric code shamed King John
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The first to give chivalric meaning and glory to the knight's role were the
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vernacular poets of Provence in southern France
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The cause of the plague was mostly likely
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Yersinia Pestis
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The purpose of the Statute of Laborers was to
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fix wages at pre-plague rates
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What was the issue at the heart of the struggle between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV?
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the wealth and control of the French church
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Among the causes of the Great Famine that struck northern Europe was
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poor weather
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The language of chivalry and courtly love was, for the most part was
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French
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The immediate response of many to the plague was to
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Live for today
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What force reshaped the territorial outline of medieval Europe?
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Islam
