HIS 101 Chapter 8 Quiz – Flashcards
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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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Among the strategies in the Ottonian system for managing the papacy was
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investing bishops and abbots with their offices.
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Who gave an inflammatory speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, calling for a crusade to liberate the Holy Land?
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Pope Urban II
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The church's policy to reduce the violence among knights and vassals was called the
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Truce of God.
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In Europe, popular movements at the time of the First Crusade also led to
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pogroms against Jews.
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According to the scheme of three orders, what was the proper role of the king
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to equalize the orders and govern the parts of a harmonious whole
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Alfred the Great set a model for
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Anglo-Saxon kingship.
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After the Carolingians, Europe entered a period of rapid
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decentralization.
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Crusade was a vehicle promoted by the papacy for reinforcing
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European and papal identity.
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The late eleventh century might be thought of as a critical take-off point for European
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mobility and outreach.
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Why did reformers oppose lay investiture?
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Lay investiture seemed to represent the secular control of spiritual life.
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Cardinal Humbert wrote a treatise against simony that precipitated a crisis of
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relations with the eastern church.
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Why were powerful churchmen and monarchs bound to infringe upon one another's authority in the medieval world?
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The church had become politicized and the monarchy sanctified.
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A stone tower erected on an elevated site within a fortification is called a
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keep.
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The Investiture Controversy pitted Pope Gregory VII against
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King Henry IV.
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Of all the problems facing the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century, the greatest problem for the empire was the
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rise of the Seljuk Turks.
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Who did Henry the Fowler and his son Otto I the Great battle in 933 and 955?
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Magyars
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The Romanesque Central Middle Ages took place from
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900 to 1100.
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What was the central issue in the conflict that emerged between the papacy and the empire after the death of emperor Henry III?
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the election of popes
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How did the Investiture Controversy transform the papacy?
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It became a political player in Europe.
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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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Pilgrimages to what destination became somewhat easier and safer in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries?
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the Holy Land
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What was one of the main problems with all crusades?
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Too few crusaders wished to remain in the conquered lands.
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The Byzantine Empire lost territory in southern Italy to the
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Normans
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Late in the Romanesque Central Middle Ages, the notion took hold that nature was a
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resource given to humans by God for their benefit.
