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Middle Ages 2 Study Guide
Multiple Choice
1. All of the following were duties and powers of popes during the Middle Ages except
a. Deciding when someone was acting against the church.
b. Writing letters to explain religious teachings.
c. Providing guidance on how to live and pray.
d. Forging treaties with religious leaders of other regions.
2. Why were the Crusades fought?
a. To bring the eastern bishops back under the pope’s control
b. To protect European territory from invading Muslims
c. To unite the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
d. To gain control of Palestine, the Holy Land
3. One reason Christian Crusaders lost the Holy Land was that
a. They didn't have the support of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
b. They didn’t understand the reason for the conflict.
c. They lacked support from kings and nobles.
d. They traveled long distances to the battles.
4. What was the most important result of the Crusades?
a. European kings increased their power.
b. Popes increased their power.
c. Muslims and Christians gained respect for one another.
d. Trade and exchange of idea between Europe and Asia increased.
5. Saint Thomas Aquinas argued that
a. Animals should be treated with respect.
b. Human reason interfered with Christian faith.
c. Rational thought could support Christian beliefs.
d. Christians should respect the beliefs of Jews and Muslims.
6. How did life change for surviving peasants and serfs after the plague?
a. They began to demand wages for their labor.
b. They moved from towns to the country.
c. They had to work much longer days.
d. They took over the manors.
7. During the Middle Ages, Jews
a. Were discriminated against throughout Europe.
b. Controlled territory in much of Europe.
c. Had a strong alliance with Muslims.
d. Began several important universities.
8. Whose rule in Spain ended in 1002?
a. The pope’s
b. The French King’s
c. Jewish elders’
d. Muslim Moors’
True or False
9. The Crusaders retook Jerusalem in the Second Crusade.
10. The Black Death occurred just after the Hundred Years’ War ended.
11. More people were killed by the Black Death than by the Hundred Years’ War.
Completion
12. ________________wanted people to study natural law to learn how they could live the
way God wanted.
13. The church established some of the earliest
in Europe to teach
people about religion.
14. The
was an organization of priests that looked for and ruthlessly
punished non-Christians in Spain and Portugal.
15. Because Ferdinand and Isabella wanted only _______ in their country, all other
religions were forbidden.
16. In 1492
finally brought an end to the Reconquista when they
conquered the kingdom of Granada.
Matching
17. Cast out from the church
18. The Holy Land
19. Church Officials
20. Communities of monks
21. People who hold religious ideas that
oppose accepted church teachings
22. Made a famous speech to rally
people to fight the Crusades
23. Knights in search of treasure
attacked this city on their way to
take part in the Fourth Crusade.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
clergy
monasteries
heretics
Pope Innocent III
Excommunicate
Palestine
Constantinople