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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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