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The Hundred Years' War pitted

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England against France

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Saint Thomas Aquinas's most famous work is his

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Summa Theologica

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Peter Abelard built his philosophy around what method

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Systematic doubting

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Although the term "Crusade" is not medieval in origin, the best medieval meaning of it is

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taking the cross to spread the faith

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Oath-swearing ceremonies such as "homage and featly" tied nobles to

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warriors.

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Most of the first books to be printed on the new presses were of what genre

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religouious

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Why did the marauding Magyars come to be known as Hungarians?

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They were believed to be returning Huns

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During the Renaissance, in the field of art,

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portrait paintings became more realistic in style

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In the fifteenth century, Venice, Milan, Florence, the Papal States, and which other power dominated the Italian peninsula?

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The Kingdom of Naples

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In addition to the monarchical claims of Edward III, another cause of the Hundred Years' War was the trade in

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wool

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In the ninth century, Muslims conquered what part of western Europe?

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Sicily

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One of the new crops introduced to the Muslim parts of western Europe after the ninth century was

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cotton.

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Gender standards of the Renaissance required that most men in political power be

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married

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Printing with movable type was developed in the mid-fifteenth century in

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Germany.

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Fifteenth-century Renaissance paintings of religious or classical themes often featured

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. living people used as models

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The primary principle of the Magna Carta is that

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all laws should be written and made public (incorrect:all Englishmen were created equal. )

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Humanist and Renaissance ideas of the fifteenth and sixteenth century were spread by the new technology of

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printing press

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During the Fourth Crusade, the Crusaders sacked

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Constantinople

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Christian expansion into Spain was facilitated by

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civil wars between the Muslim regions.

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The Renaissance began first in what northern Italian city?

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florence

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The Black Death was initially spread out of Asia by merchants and

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Mongol armies

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The most important subject studied at any medieval university was

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theology

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The Cistercian order

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represented church reform by establishing their houses in isolated areas

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The most powerful position a woman could hold in medieval society was

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abbess

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Mongols probably introduced the Bubonic Plague into Europe during their siege of what city?

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Kaffa

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One of the central component ideals of the Italian Renaissance was

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a. the desire to educate the rural masses.incorrect b. a concern for the improvement of common people. c. a recognition of individual achievement. YES d. Christian humility and self-effacement. Incorrect e. a rejection of traditional social influences.

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The triggering event for England's People's Revolt in 1381 was the

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re-imposition of a poll tax on all adult males

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The peasant diet consisted mostly of vegetables and

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bread

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The Hanseatic League was

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.a trading union of northern European cities

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How far west did Zheng He explore in the fifteenth century?

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Egypt

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The term "Middle Ages"

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describes a period historians consider to be barbaric

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Otto I tried to use the church and creation of dioceses to pacify

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Slavs

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To convince people to fight on Crusades, the church promised them

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. forgiveness of sins without penance

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Printing presses of the fifteenth century were aided by the availability of what material

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Paper

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What is the best translation of the Renaissance quality of "virtu"?

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. An individual's ability to shape the world around them

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What city dominated Europe's trade with Asia?

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Venice

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The Black Death that struck Europe and the Middle East in the mid-fourteenth century probably came from

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Central Asia

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In the fourteenth century, the papal court was moved to

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Avignon

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As a result of the Renaissance

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. the gulf between the learned minority and uneducated majority increased

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Renaissance writers who defended women's nature and abilities were anticipating a modern theory that gender is

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. a social construction

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Which nation won the Hundred Years' War, in part thanks to the efforts of Joan of Arc

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France

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According to the textbook, Renaissance misogynist writers described women as devious, domineering, and

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demanding.

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A major shift in world outlook occurred at the beginning of the Renaissance, in which the wealthy began to see life as

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something to enjoy

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