Hist 102 – Flashcard

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The principle crops of the Roman Empire were
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grapes, olives and wheat
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2. Of the three medieval periods—Early Middle Ages, Central Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages—which one, according to Bennett, was the most peaceful and prosperous?
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Central middle ages
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3. Which of the following was not part of the Roman Empire at its height ca. 180 C.E.?
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Ireland
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The bust is a picture of
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Emperor Constantine
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The holy meal of early Christians was called the Eucharist, which is Greek for:
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Thanksgiving
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6. Stories of Christian saints are called:
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Hagiography
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7. In the early centuries of Christianity, a man or woman could become known as a saint by
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dying in the arena
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8. Arian Christians believed that Jesus:
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was not divine
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9. Saint Jerome's greatest achievement, according to Bennett, was:
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Translating bible into latin
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10. Augustine of Hippo became a Christian after a conversion experience in which he heard a childish voice from heaven telling him to:
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Read a bible passage
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1. Most of Europe's major cities were built:
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On a river
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2. The Celts were known for:
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Metalwork and Pants
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3. King Arthur was most likely a/an:
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6th century warlord
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4. A barbarian king needed which of the following to be successful?:
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military skill
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5. The Visigothic king who sacked Rome in 410 was:
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Alaric
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6. The 6th-century philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, in which he argued:
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C. Spiritual development is more important than worldly success
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Effigy of
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Clovis
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8. Merovingian kings practiced what kind of inheritance:
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Inheritance is divided among children
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9. Eventually, the Visigoths ended up settling in:
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Spain
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10. The Bishops of Rome, beginning with Leo I, argued that:
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B. They, Bishops of Rome, should be considered the highest Christian authorities
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1. This is the typical plan of a
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Christian basilica
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2. Clovis, King of the Franks, became a Christian because
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Clothild and Bishop Remigius persuaded him to convert.
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3. Although the Roman Empire "fell" or "dwindled", Roman-ness continued to influence
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c. European politics, religion, culture, architecture, etc.
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4. Most Christians in the kingdoms of early medieval Europe lived
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c. nowhere near a Christian place of worship or devotion.
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5. The population of Frankish-born people in fifth-century Gaul was probably
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Around 3%
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6. The Visigoths created a relatively stable early medieval kingdom in Iberia because
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c. they created a single kingdom relying on a Roman urban and tax infrastructure.
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7. King Sisebut of the Visigothic kingdom
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a. forced Jews to accept Christian baptism.
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8. The Anglo-Saxons were
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c. initially multiple tribal groups that quickly established multiple tiny kingdoms in Britain.
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9. St. Augustine of Canterbury is famous for
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c. leading a Christian mission to England.
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Picture of
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Irish saint shrine
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1. Which is true? Byzantium got
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c. its government from Rome, its religion from Christianity, and its culture from Greece.
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2. Byzantium's main political stance was
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Defensive
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3. Monophysites believed that
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Christ was god in a human body
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4. The main language of most Byzantines was
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Greek
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5. Iconoclasts did not believe that images of the saints were
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a. Imbued with miraculous power
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6. Bulgars and Russians converted to
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Orthodox Christianity
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7. The Hijra, which occurred in 622, was
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Prophet's flight from Mecca
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8. Which of the following is not one of the Five Pillars of Islam?
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Carry out jihad
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9. Who had the least religious authority?
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Christian kings
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10. Dhimmis could remain in al-Andalus as long as they paid taxes, accepted rule by the Caliph, and.
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b. did not proselytize
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1. The Treaty of Verdun solved the problem of
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b. who should inherit Charlemagne's empire.
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2. Beginning in the early 9th century, Europe was attacked by
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c. Muslim pirates, Magyars, and Vikings.
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3. Which of the following was not attacked by Vikings?
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Italy
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4. Which of the following did not propel young Scandinavians to go a-viking?
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c. conversion to Christianity.
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5. King Alfred of England, who defeated the Danes and unified the English under his leadership, was also famous for
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c. gathering scholars to his court.
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v6. According to Judith Bennett, feudalism was the result of
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a. Carolingian dynastic disputes
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7. The term "feudalism" is confusing to modern students and historians because
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Its not a medieval term
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8. Feudalism flourished where royal government
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Was non-existant
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9. In 9th and 10th-century Europe, a person became a nobleman or noblewoman when
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S/he inherited land
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10. After the disintegration of Charlemagne's empire, England united under its strongest king, Francia dissolved into feudal territories, Germany supported a new Ottonian empire, and Italy
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a. became divided into city-states.
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Which best summarizes the circumstances of the medieval West, Byzantium, and Islamic states between 1000 and 1300?
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(a) the West began to prosper, while the fortunes of Byzantium and Islam declined.
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Most medieval peasants lived within three critical institutions: manors, villages, and
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Parishes
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Masters, apprentices and journeymen were regulated by medieval
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Guilds
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Burghers or burgesses
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(b) lived in cities and towns.
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Manorialism allowed medieval elites
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to extract wealth from the peasantry
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Godric of Finchale ended his life as a hermit, but before that he made a fortune as
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a seafaring merchant
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Charlemagne was really
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6 ft tall
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Usury was
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the loaning of money at interest
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The Central Middle Ages are dated in your textbook as circa
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1000-1300
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Godric of Finchale lived for 100 years and during his life he was both
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(c) a merchant and a hermit.
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A furlong gets it name from
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The distanct an ox team could pull a heavy plough
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Feudalism as a social-political system worked because the medieval elite
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Supported by the laboring peasantry
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Feudal society" is a better description of the social-political organization of medieval Europe than "feudalism" because:
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a. there was no such thing as feeudalism and b. feudal can describe other societies
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Vassalage refers to which of the following
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man and man
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On map, locate roman empire
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Above the italian penninsula
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ame the three figures in the picture at right:
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left: oratores - lord middle: bellatores - vassal right: laboratores - peasants
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one sign that the natural environment of medieval Europe grew more favorable for agriculture after about 800 CE was
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summer lasted longer
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One reason that the two field system was less efficient than the three field system was because
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the two field system diminished nitrogen in the soil
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Which of the following was not the right of noble lords
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choose the pope
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Townspeople and the local manorial lord typically formalized their relationship by:
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commissioning a written charter
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The main goals of the 11th-century ecclesiastical reform were, according to Bennett:
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a. improve moral character of clergy and limit lay influence over Church matters
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2. The "Two Swords theory" argued that:
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c. both swords belong to the Pope who, as the Vicar of Christendom, could give the temporal sword, but not the spiritual sword, to whomever he pleased.
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3. One of the ancient inspirations for the 11-12th-century reorganization of canon law was renewed study of:
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c. Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis.
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4. Medieval university graduates found employment as
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a. priests and bishops b. clerks and bureaucrats c. lawyers d. all of the above
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Whose potrait is this
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Innocent III
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Territory in Red
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Barbarossa
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7. Which of the following is not a new monastic order of the Central Middle Ages?
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Cathars
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8. Which of the following was not considered heretical by Church leaders of the central Middle Ages?
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Radical poverty
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9. Canossa was the place where:
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b. Henry IV knelt in the snow
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10. St Francis is famous because:
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b. He founded a new order of wandering beggars
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1. The term reconquest is usually used with reference to:
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1. The term reconquest is usually used with reference to:
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In the 11th century, Sicily and the southern Italian peninsula fell under the control of
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Normans
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. The First Crusade was preached by Pope Urban II in 1095. It:
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Jerusalem
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he "military orders" were designed to accommodat
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ordinary people who wanted to participate in the crusades
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In the history of the Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the 12th century marks the beginning o
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violent persecutions of Jews by Christians
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A great soldier and leader, Richard the Lion Hearted was also
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a crusader and relentless collector of taxes
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. The medieval crusader states were established in modern-day
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Israel, Lebanon, and Syria
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Bernard of Clairvaux is associated with
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the Cistercian reform
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In historical reality, the winner of the controversy between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII was
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Gregory
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In Hist 102 on Weds. March 11, the winner of the controversy between the Church and the State was:
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Empress
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1. After c. 1250, the Holy Roman Empire
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fell under control of french
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2. Louis IX of France ruled from 1226 to 1270. He is associated with
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royal sanctity
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3. The Angevin Empire refers to lands held by
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(a) Henry II of England, c. 1175.
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4. Henry II of England gained massive territory in France by
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marrying an heiress
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5. Between 1000 and 1300, monarchs in France
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(c) triumphed over papalist enemies.
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6. While lyrics, epics, and romances were aristocratic literature, fabliaux were enjoyed by
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(c) non-aristocratic, urban audiences.
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7. The debate over universals concerned whether
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(c) Platonic archetypes (or ideals) were real.
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8. Robert Grossteste and Roger Bacon were important
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Scientists
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9. Peter Abelard died in 1142. Thomas Aquinas died in
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1274
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10. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote
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Canterbury Tales
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The Great Famine occurred in
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1315-1322
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After the Great Plague, what happened to serfdom in Western Europe?
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It declined
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The "conciliar movement" sought to limit the authority of
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popes
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Catherine of Siena is an example of the importance of what trend in late medieval Christianity?
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mysticism
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Which of the following did not happen to peasants in western Europe after the Great Plague?
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revolts stopped
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Historical demographers estimate that Europe c. 1300 had
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too many people
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Between 1309 and 1376, popes lived in Avignon which is today located in
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Southern france
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Which statement BEST summarizes Muslim presence in western Europe c. 1300?
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(a) Muslims controlled Sicily, Spain, and southern Italy.
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1. "Sovereignty" means
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unchallenged authority of the state
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2. In consolidating power, late medieval kings faced two main challenges. Which was NOT a major challenge?
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papacy
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3. Which of the following statements about the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) is correct?
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(c) It provoked the intervention of Joan of Arc.
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4. Louis XI (r. 1461-1483)
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(b) subdued the aristocrats of France.
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5. Who dominated Russia c. 1500?
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(b) Muscovite princes.
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6. The story of William Tell is a symptom of the growing importance of
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Nationalism
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7. The Wars of the Roses refers to
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(a) aristocratic factionalism in late medieval England.
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8. Joan of Arc intervened in the
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(b) Hundred Years' War.
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9. "New monarchs" are so called because they
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(c) consolidated power.
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10. In 1453, the Ottoman Turks captured
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Constantinople
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