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CHAPTER 10 TERMS, PEOPLE, EVENTS: The following terms, people, and events are important to your understanding of
the chapter.
Black Death
feudalism
vassals
Charles Martel
Charlemagne
Roman Catholic church
Clovis
Carolingians
Beowulf
Ferdinand and Isabella
First Crusade
Third Crusade
Fourth Crusade Francis of Assisi
investiture
Holy Roman Empire Crusades
Pope
Hundred Years War
Pope Urban II
Magna Carta
parliaments
manorialism
serfs
moldboard
Middle Ages
Gothic
Vikings
Geoffrey Chaucer
scholasticism
Hanseatic League
chivalry
guilds
three-field system
three estates
Franks
William the Conqueror
MULTIPLE CHOICE. CHOOSE THE ONE ALTERNATIVE THAT BEST COMPLETES THE STATEMENT OR ANSWERS THE QUESTION.
1. How did the spread of Christianity affect the polytheistic religions already extant in northern Europe?
A) All traces of those earlier religions were eradicated.
B) Conversion produced a religious amalgam of Christianity and beliefs in magic and supernatural spirits.
C) Many areas of Europe retained purely polytheistic religions.
D) Christianity achieved few conversions, and most of Europe retained polytheistic religions.
E) In order to gain converts, Christianity allowed people to continue certain polytheistic rituals.
2. Following the fall of Rome, where was the center of the postclassical West?
A) In the former Roman colony of Spain
D) Greece
B) In Italy, particularly Rome
E) Constantinople
C) In the central plain of northern Europe
3. Manorialism was the system that
A) described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers.
B) secular authorities utilized to name bishops.
C) defined relationships between members of the military elite.
D) united the traditions of classical rationalism with medieval Christianity.
E) provided a comfortable living for all involved.
4. Which of the following statements concerning the manorial system is NOT true?
A) It was comprised of essentially self-sufficient
C) Its obligations bore heavily on serfs.
manors.
D) Agricultural productivity was low.
B) It had originated in the Roman Empire.
E) It was technologically sophisticated.
5. Vassals were
A) grants of land given to lesser members of the military elite in return for military service.
B) agricultural laborers.
C) members of the military elite who received land in return for military service.
D) greater lords within the military elite who commanded military bands.
E) special oaths made between lesser and greater lords.
6. Clovis was the Frankish king responsible for the
A) defeat of the Muslims.
B) conversion of his people to Christianity.
C) creation of a substantial empire.
D) establishment of the Carolingian dynasty.
E) revival of a period of learning.
7. What monk was responsible for the creation of a set of rules for Western monasteries in the 6th century?
A) Basil
D) Boniface VIII
B) Bernard of Clairvaux
E) Cyril
C) Benedict of Nursia
8. What Frankish monarch was able to establish a substantial empire in 800?
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A) Clovis
B) Charles Martel
C) Pepin III
D) Charlemagne
E) Louis
9. The imperial title formerly held by the Carolingians was later claimed by:
A) France
D) Switzerland
B) Italy
E) The Holy Roman Empire
C) England
10. What institutions were responsible for the regulation of apprenticeship, guarantee of good
workmanship, and admission to various trades?
A) Church
D) Serfs
B) Monasteries
E) Guilds
C) Feudal monarchies
SHORT ANSWER. WRITE THE WORD OR PHRASE THAT BEST COMPLETES THE STATEMENT OR ANSWERS THE QUESTION.
1. An architectural style developed during the Middle Ages in western Europe, __________ architecture featured pointed
arches and flying buttresses.
2. __________ was the system that described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant
laborers.
3. __________ described relationships among military elites in which greater lords provided protection and aid to lesser
lords.
4. The __________ were the royal house of the Franks from the 8th to the 10th century.
5. The Frankish monarch __________ was responsible for defeating the Muslims of Spain in the Battle of Tours in
6. The system of agricultural cultivation by the 9th century in much of western Europe was the __________ system, utilizing
one-third fallow, one-third spring grains, and one-third winter grains.
7. __________ invaded England from Normandy in 1066 and implemented a feudal system in England.
8. The __________ between England and France was fought between 1337 and 1453 to establish the emerging claims of
national states.
9. An organization of cities in northern Germany for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance was called the
__________.
10. Sworn associations of people in the same business or trade in a single city, __________, stressed security and
guaranteed good workmanship.
TRUE/FALSE. WRITE “T” IF THE STATEMENT IS TRUE AND “F” IF THE STATEMENT IS FALSE.
_____ 1. In the manorial system, serfs were actually slaves who could be bought and sold.
_____ 2. The Frankish ruler Charlemagne recreated an empire in the West by the year 800.
_____ 3. Pope Gregory VII wished to free the church from secular interference by banning the practice of lay investiture.
_____ 4. Peter Abelard of the University of Paris insisted on the primacy of faith in obtaining knowledge.
_____ 5. The medieval West established some commercial headway, but fell far short of capitalism.
_____ 6. Representative bodies such as Parliament grew up in England, Spain, France, and other countries at first
represented not individual votes but privileged groups.
_____ 7. The dominant medieval teaching and philosophical approach, Humanism, was based on the use of logic to resolve
theological problems.
_____ 8. Emperors in northern Italy and Germany, following the split of Charlemagne’s empire, claimed the title of Holy
Roman emperors.
_____ 9. Lesser lords or vassals received land or a benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty.
_____ 10. The early Frankish king who converted the Franks to Christianity was Charles Martel.
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CHAPTER 11 TERMS, PEOPLE, EVENTS: THE FOLLOWING TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS ARE IMPORTANT TO YOUR
UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHAPTER.
Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
calpulli
"Inca socialism"
Inca
Pachacuti
Moctezuma II
Chimor
pipiltin
quipu
Quetzalcoatl
split inheritance
mita
Huitzilopochtli
chinampas
Twantinsuyu
Cortés
Temple of the Sun
Toltecs
MULTIPLE CHOICE. CHOOSE THE ONE ALTERNATIVE THAT BEST COMPLETES THE STATEMENT OR ANSWERS THE QUESTION.
1. Although later civilizations in Mesoamerica borrowed and built on the previous accomplishments of the Olmecs and
Maya, later civilizations
(A) were not as war-like as their predecessors had been.
(B) rarely surpassed their intellectual predecessors.
(C) failed to improve on the political institutions and types of Olmec and Maya states.
(D) abandoned polytheism in favor of monotheism.
(E) abandoned trade.
2. The Aztecs rose to power through all of the following means EXCEPT:
(A) control of water and irrigation.
(D) warfare.
(B) political alliances with neighboring cities.
(E) trade.
(C) marriage alliances.
3. For the Mesoamericans of the Aztec period, religion
(A) was increasingly monotheistic.
(B) developed into idealistic philosophies and intellectual discussions.
(C) taught that humans should live ethical, moral lives.
(D) declined and atheism began to spread widely.
(E) was oppressive and made little distinction between the sacred and secular.
4. In order to supply food to Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs
(A) obtained food through tribute from conquered city-states.
(B) relied largely on trade for foodstuffs.
(C) used slave labor.
(D) built floating agricultural islands on the lake.
(E) filled in Lake Texcoco to obtain agricultural lands.
5. Around 1500 C.E., membership in Aztec society was hierarchically defined by all of these methods EXCEPT:
(A) social classes.
(D) ethnicity.
(B) gender.
(E) occupational groups.
(C) clans or tribes.
6. Because of their level of technological development, Aztec work and production
(A) relied heavily on tools and machines.
(B) relied heavily on the physical labor of humans.
(C) utilized domesticated beasts of burden extensively.
(D) richly rewarded intellectual invention and innovation.
(E) were performed by slaves and conquered or tributary states.
7. Demographic evidence of the Aztec Empire around 1500 C.E. indicates
(A) a falling population base when the Europeans
(C) women outnumbered men due to the loses
arrived.
during the frequent wars.
(B) decreasing birthrates.
(D) most Aztecs lived in cities.
(E) an extremely high population density.
8. One reason offered for the expansion of the Inca state was
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(A) a need for humans to sacrifice to the state gods.
(B) overpopulation and the need for new crop land.
(C) each new Inca ruler had to secure new land and wealth for himself.
(D) changing environment and climate that drove the Incas from their homeland.
(E) superior technologies made it easy for the Incas to conquer other peoples.
9. Religious practices of the Incas included all of these attributes EXCEPT:
(A) animism.
(D) sun worship.
(B) ancestor worship.
(E) theocratic government.
(C) monotheism.
10. All land in the Inca state
(A) belonged to the priests.
(B) was owned by merchants and traders.
(C) belonged to the oldest woman of the family.
(D) was owned by those who worked the land.
(E) was owned by the state but assigned and redistributed to others.
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. The term __________ was a misnomer created by Columbus for Native Americans when he thought he had
reached the Indies.
2. The Mexica or __________ penetrated into the sedentary agricultural zone of Mexico after Toltec collapse and
established an empire circa 1325.
3. Founded circa 1325 on a marshy island in Lake Texcoco, __________ became the center of Aztec power.
4. __________, or death while taking prisoners for sacrifice, was thought by the Aztecs to be a fitting end to a
noble life and an assurance of eternity in the highest heaven.
5. The modern interpretation of Aztec society created by Marvin Harris, the __________,
6. The group of clans centered at Cuzco that was able to create an empire in Andean civilization circa 1438 was
the __________.
7. The Inca practice of descent, __________, granted all titles and political power to the ruler’s
successor, but wealth and land remained in the hands of male descendants for support of the cult of the dead
Inca’s mummy.
8. It is estimated that in 1492, the total human population of the western hemisphere was approximately
__________ million.
9. The __________ were a class of people removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans,
or workers for the Inca and his family.
10. The system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system, __________ could contain
numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records.
TRUE/FALSE. Write “T” if the statement is true and “F” if the statement is false.
_____ 1. The Toltecs established a militaristic empire in Mesoamerica with a capital at Tenochtitlan.
_____ 2. The Aztecs were probably a nomadic tribe that used the political anarchy following the fall of the Toltecs
to penetrate into the area of sedentary agricultural peoples.
_____ 3. Both the Aztecs and Toltecs apparently spoke Nahuatl.
_____ 4. The Aztecs adopted a rigidly monotheistic religious system devoted to Quetzalcoatl.
_____ 5. The Incas evolved from ten related clans residing in and around Cuzco.
_____ 6. Labor services extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion in the Inca Empire were called quipu.
_____ 7. Located in Cuzco, the Temple of the Sun was the religious center of the Inca Empire.
_____ 8. The Inca empire was linked by an extensive road system covering nearly 2500 miles.
_____ 9. The chinampas were beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to
create “floating islands.”
_____ 10. In common will all complex societies, North American native culture was entirely based on agriculture.