Medieval History Test 2: European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages 750-1000 – Flashcards
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Who was the First Frankish king annointed by the Pope?
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Louis the Pious
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Who symbolized the fusion of Roman, German, and Christian elements?
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Charlemagne
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Whose most disappointing military campaign came against the Basques?
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Charlemagne
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Whose expansion was most successful against eastern Germanic tribes?
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Charlemagne
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Whose administration of his empire was based on resources of nobles and household staff, counts of the margrave, and missi Dominici?
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Charlemagne
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Whose correlation in 800 fused many cultures?
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Charlemagne
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What time is characterized by Benedictine Monastic scriptoria copies of classical literary works?
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Carolingian Renaissance
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Who copied manuscripts which preserved Latin classical authors?
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Carolingian monks
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Who helped lay the foundation for medieval education?
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Alcuin
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What to travelers was a sacred duty?
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Monastic hospitality
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What type of practice for pagans was based on magical rites, and amulets during Early Middle Ages and earlier times?
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Medicine practice
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What society used bleeding to cure illness?
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Carolingian society
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What society had different patterns of food consumption among rich and poor?
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Carolingian society
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What society had vices of gluttony and drunkenness?
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Carolingian society
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Whatsociety had considerable violence?
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Carolingian society
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What treaty divided the Carolingian empire in 843?
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Treaty of Verdun
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Who were originally from Western Asia?
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The Magyars
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Who came from Scandinavia?
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Vikings
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Who had Christianity assimilated them into European civilization?
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Vikings
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Whose raids and settlements aided the growth of fief holdings?
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Vikings
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Whose iron weapons and shipbuilding was responsible for their successful raids?
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Vikings
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Who discovered Greenland?
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Erik the Red
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What was primarily a complex system of vassalage by which the weak sought protection and sustenance from powerful local nobles?
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Feudalism of medieval Europe
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What is the hierarchical fief-holding system in which vassals in turn had vassals owing them services?
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Subinfeudation
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What was the major obligation of the lord to the vassal?
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Economic support and protection either militarily or through grants of land
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What was the major obligation of a vassal to his lord under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages?
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To provide military service
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What was the military innovation clearly contributing to the rise of feudal vassalage?
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The growing importance of Calvary (mounted knights) in royal armies
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Who, in 987, was elected as king of the western Frankish nobility which started a new dynasty?
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Hugh Capet
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What was Otto I's more successful actions that clearly benefited the kingship of Germany?
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Defeat of the Magyars at the battle of Lechfeld in 955 and christianization of eastern Europe
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Who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarchy in England by defeating the Danish Army?
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Alfred the Great
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What was an economic system based upon landed estates?
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Manorialism
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What declined during the early period of Middle Ages drastically declined?
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Trade
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When were the luxury goods brought from the Byzantine empire?
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9th century
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Who did the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century achieved its brilliance and power under?
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The Macedonians
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Who were originally a single people in Central Europe?
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Slavs
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Who was greatly influenced by assimilation into the Catholic Church and Latin culture?
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Poles, Czechs, Hungarians
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Who was the ruthless Russian leader responsible for tying Russian political and religious ideals to the Byzantine Empire?
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Vladimir
