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Which of the following came first?
Charlemagne’s empire
The Dark Age
The fall of Rome
The Crusades
Answer: The fall of Rome
What do the following have in
common?
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Answer: Scandinavian Countries, from which the
Vikings come.
What is the holy city of the Islamic
religion?
Jerusalem
Mecca
Makkah
Constantinople
Answer: Mecca or Makkah
Which of the following is best associated with
the Orthodox religion?
Pope
Priest
Archbishop
Patriarch
Answer: Patriarch
What do the following things have in
common?
Diet
Estates-General
Parliament
Congress
Answer: governmental groups that represent the
people.
The Byzantine Empire used to be
called the:
Eastern half of the Roman Empire
Western half of the Roman Empire
Charlemagne’s Empire
Alfred the Great’s Empire
Answer: Eastern half of the Roman Empire
He defeated the Muslims at the
Battle of Tours in 1732.
Clovis
Charlemagne
Charles “the Hammer” Martel
Julius Caesar
Answer: Charles “the Hammer” Martel
What do the following things have in
common?
Trade stops
Travel is dangerous
Cities and towns are in ruin
Education stops
Answer: Signs of a Dark Age
Power in feudal Europe came from:
Money and Gold
Religious influence
Land ownership
Military success and skill
Answer: Land ownership
Being removed from the Catholic
Church against your will is:
Being excommunicated
Being orthodoxed
Being made a peasant
Being part of the inquisition
Answer: Being excommunicated
What do the following things have in
common?
An interest in classical writing
A desire to learn
An interest in art
An interest in Ancient Greece and Rome
Answer: The Renaissance
Put the following steps of becoming
a Knight in the correct order.
Dubbing ceremony
Page
Squire
Serf
Answer: Page, Squire, and Dubbing. Being a Serf
means you cannot be a knight.
The word crusade best means which of
the following in world history:
A rebellion of serfs to land owners.
A fight among peasants of equal rank.
A holy war to free the Holy Land.
A fight for women’s rights.
Answer: A holy war to free the Holy Land.
What do the following things have in
common?
Limit the authority of the king to tax.
Give power to the nobles from the king.
Right to a trial by a jury of peers.
The king is not above the law.
Answer: The Magna Carta
Which of the following reforms did
Henry II make in England?
He began Parliament to help him make laws.
He signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
He conquered England in 1066.
He created circuit judges, grand and trial juries.
Answer: Circuit judges, grand and trial juries.
Feudalism depended upon the
relationship of:
Religion and service
Service and protection
Protection and religion
Land ownership and protection
Answer: Service and protection
What do the following have in
common?
Re-organized Roman law and made it simpler.
Put down a rebellion over high taxes.
Tried to re-unite parts of the Roman Empire.
Built churches such as Hagia Sophia.
Answer: Emperor Justinian
Put the following things in correct
order beginning with the oldest.
The Crusades
The Renaissance
The Neolithic Revolution
The Rise of Feudalism
Answer: Neolithic Revolution, Rise of Feudalism,
the Crusades, and the Renaissance.
One of the earliest trading ports for
Italy was:
Rome
Venice
Flanders
Constantinople
Answer: Venice
What do the following things have in
common
Koran
Torah
Bible
Old Testament
Answer: Holy books for monotheistic religions
What was Clovis the first to do?
First Frankish king to convert to Christianity
First Frankish king to defeat the Muslims.
First Frankish king to begin Feudalism.
First Frankish king to end the Dark Age.
Answer: First to convert to Christianity
Which is a common ancestor for
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Muhammad
Jesus
Constantine I
Abraham
Answer: Abraham
What do the following things have in
common?
John Calvin
Anglican Church
Martin Luther
Protest
Answer: The Protestant Reformation
Who was the best known ruler of the
Byzantine Empire?
Julius Caesar
Charlemagne
Justinian
Alexander the Great
Answer: Justinian
Which of the following relationships
is correct?
The Patriarch leads the Protestant Church
Muhammad began Judaism.
The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church
Jesus is a savior to Jews
Answer: Pope heads the Catholic Church
What do the following things have in
common?
Trade with the middle and far east improves.
New trade routes are discovered.
Learning and knowledge from the middle east is
taken to western Europe.
Castles are improved in western Europe.
Answer: Effects of the Crusades.
When Muslims pray they face which
city and what holy shrine?
Jerusalem and the rock of David.
Mecca and the Kaaba.
Constantinople and Hagia Sophia.
Rome and the Vatican.
Answer: Mecca and the Kaaba.
What do the following have in
common?
Serfs
Vassals
Nobles
Clergy
Answer: Relationships in Feudalism
Who was the first leader to try and
fight the Dark Age with education?
Charlemagne
Julius Caesar
Clovis
Alfred the Great
Answer: Charlemagne
Which of the following does Christianity
and Islam have in common?
Belief in Jesus as the messiah.
Belief in the New Testament as God’s word.
Belief in the concept of Heaven and Hell.
Belief in Muhammad as a prophet of God.
Answer: Belief in the concept of Heaven and
Hell.
What do the following have in
common?
Helped fuel the Renaissance.
Led to more reading.
Made books easier for people to own.
Had moveable type.
Answer: The Printing Press
What was the code of Justinian?
A way for people to behave in Constantinople.
A re-invention of Greek democracy.
A re-organization of Roman law.
A new legal system developed by Justinian.
Answer: A re-organization of Roman law.
Which of the following brought
more democracy to people?
Magna Carta
Feudalism
Byzantine Empire
Charlemagne
Answer: Magna Carta
What do the following things have in
common?
Bosporus Strait
Venice
Flanders
Peninsula
Answer: Strategic geographic locations
Which of the following does not go
with the other three?
Judaism
Islam
Monotheism
Polytheism
Answer: Polytheism
What do the following things have in
common?
Show respect for women of noble birth.
Show bravery.
Honor the church.
Obey the noble.
Answer: The Code of Chivalry knights were to
follow.
This was the place that Monks lived
and worked.
Monastery
Convent
Abbey
Temple
Answer: Monastery
Crowded towns led to the spread of:
Disease such as the Black Death
Feudalism
Trade guilds
Democracy
Answer: Disease such as the Black Death
Joan of Arc is best associated with:
The Battle of Tours to free France.
The Battle of Orleans to free France.
The Battle of Hastings to conquer England.
The Battle of Normandy to free France.
Answer: The Battle of Orleans – 100 Years’ War
between France and England.
Why was the Renaissance able to
begin in Italy?
Italy had more artists than the rest of Europe.
Italy had more wealth from trade.
The Catholic Church was centered in Italy.
The Italian landscape was the best to paint.
Answer: Italy had more wealth from trade –
Venice and other city-states had grown rich.
Which of the following terms does
not go with the other three?
Reformation
New Birth
Huguenot
Lutheran
Answer: New Birth – the other terms go with the
Protestant Reformation
Which of the following does not go
with the other three?
King Henry VIII
John Calvin
Philip II of Spain
Martin Luther
Answer: Philip II of Spain – the other three all
helped reform the church.
What do the following things all have
in common?
The desire for a son to become heir to the throne.
Divorce of his wives.
The beginning of the Anglican Church.
A political dispute with the Pope.
Answer: Henry VIII as king of England did these
things.
Which of the following is a key
aspect of the Christian faith?
Jesus is a great prophet of God.
Jesus was the messiah or savior.
Jesus’ life and teachings are in the Old Testament.
Jesus was to overthrow Roman government.
Answer: Jesus was the messiah or savior – his
death and resurrection prove this to Christians.
Which was a major reason the
Vikings left their homeland?
They wanted land more suitable for farming.
The were in search of adventure.
They wanted to conquer new lands.
They wanted to trade with the Middle East.
Answer: They wanted land more suitable for
farming – their climate was cold and land rocky.
What do the following things have in
common?
Sugar
Spices
Dye
Silk
Answer: They are all things the western Europeans
traded for because of the Crusades.
What do the following things have in
common?
Michelangelo
Galileo
Copernicus
Da Vinci
Answer: They are all important Renaissance men.
What was the primary purpose of a
guild?
To treat workers in the same craft fairly.
To provide workers with democratic rights.
To give workers a say in the government.
To help workers become world-wide traders.
Answer: To treat workers of the same craft fairly
or equally. Guilds are ancestors of labor unions.
What do the following things have in
common?
Documents that allowed towns to rule themselves.
Established councils that could tax people.
Created courts to enforce laws.
Used tax money to repair roads, build hospitals
and serve the people.
Answer: Charters gave these democratic reforms
to towns in the late middle ages.
What were icons?
The name of moveable type.
Pictures or symbols of religious importance.
The name of guilds in the late middle ages.
Ideas that helped begin the Italian Renaissance.
Answer: Pictures or symbols of religious
importance – used by the Catholic Church; led
to the break with the Orthodox Church