- 1. the center of trade in northern Europe
A) knight
B) Flanders
C) serf
D) Venice
E) fief
- 2. a warrior in armor who fought on horseback
A) Flanders
B) knight
C) fief
D) serf
E) Venice
- 3. land granted to a vassal, or knight
A) serf
B) knight
C) Flanders
D) Venice
E) fief
- 4. Italian city that was a major trading center
A) serf
B) Venice
C) Flanders
D) fief
E) knight
- 5. a person who worked the lord’s land
A) fief
B) knight
C) Venice
D) Flanders
E) serf
- 6. a region named for the Norsemen who ruled it
A) clergy
B) trial jury
C) Normandy
D) grand jury
E) Saladin
- 7. people ordained as priests
A) grand jury
B) Normandy
C) Saladin
D) trial jury
E) clergy
- 8. decided whether an accused person was guilty or innocent
A) Normandy
B) grand jury
C) Saladin
D) trial jury
E) clergy
- 9. the Egyptian ruler who united Muslims and went to war against the Christians
A) grand jury
B) Saladin
C) clergy
D) Normandy
E) trial jury
- 10. decided whether a person could be accused of a crime
A) grand jury
B) Saladin
C) Normandy
D) trial jury
E) clergy
- 11. she married Ferdinand and their joined lands became the country of Spain
A) plague
B) Isabella of Castile
C) Joan of Arc
D) Crécy
E) Reconquista
- 12. French peasant girl who led the effort to free France from England
A) Reconquista
B) Joan of Arc
C) plague
D) Crécy
E) Isabella of Castile
- 13. first major battle of the Hundred Years’ War
A) Isabella of Castile
B) plague
C) Reconquista
D) Joan of Arc
E) Crécy
- 14. a disease that spreads quickly and kills many people
A) Isabella of Castile
B) Crécy
C) Joan of Arc
D) plague
E) Reconquista
- 15. the Christian struggle to take back the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims
A) Isabella of Castile
B) Reconquista
C) plague
D) Joan of Arc
E) Crécy
- 16. The seas and rivers in Europe were important because they provided safety and opportunities for
A) trade
B) religious conversion.
C) combining kingdoms.
D) invading other lands.
- 17. A Germanic people, the ____, settled the area known today as France.
A) Franks
B) Angles
C) Saxons
D) Celts
- 18. Charlemagne was the first Frankish ruler to believe in ____ for all people.
A) education
B) equality
C) religion
D) freedom
- 19. Between A.D. 800 and 900, Europe was invaded by Muslims, Magyars, and
A) Norwegians
B) Saxons
C) Jews
D) Vikings
- 20. In 1073, Pope Gregory VII issued a decree forbidding kings from appointing high-ranking ____ officials.
A) political
B) trade
C) Church
D) military
- 21. Two important farming inventions of the Middle Ages that made turning over soil faster were the horse collar and
A) the village mill.
B) the wheeled plow.
C) the windmill.
D) crop rotation.
- 22. In medieval towns, the townspeople paid ____ to the lord in exchange for basic rights.
A) homage
B) crops
C) wages
D) taxes
- 23. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, ____ was crowned king of England.
A) Alfred the Great
B) Oleg
C) Philip II
D) William the Conqueror
- 24. The ____ helped establish the idea that people have rights and that the power of government should be limited.
A) Magna Carta
B) House of Commons
C) Common Law
D) House of Parliament
- 25. The Grand Duke of Moscow became known as czar, a shortened form of Caesar, when ____ came to power.
A) Ivan IV
B) Vladimir
C) Oleg
D) Ivan III
- 26. In 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade, or holy war, to be launched against
A) the Muslim Turks.
B) the Mongols.
C) the Kievan Rus.
D) the Jews.
- 27. A famous educated medieval woman, and nun, who wrote music was
A) Thomas Aquinas.
B) Joan of Arc.
C) Francis of Assisi.
D) Hildegard of Bingen.
- 28. As medieval daily life revolved around the Church, priests ran the schools and
A) libraries.
B) city government.
C) hospitals
D) local farms.
- 29. The Church court, or ____, tried people who were suspected of heresy.
A) grand jury
B) Crusades
C) Inquisition
D) trial jury
- 30. The most important buildings during the 1100s were large churches, called
A) Romanesque
B) cathedrals
C) Gothic
D) buttresses
- 31. The first European universities were created to educate and train
A) priests.
B) nuns
C) scholars.
D) craftspeople
- 32. Originating in central Asia, the Black Death was carried by
A) cattle
B) spiders
C) ants
D) fleas
- 33. Historians believe that the Black Death first spread along which trade route?
A) China Road
B) Silk Road
C) Ivory Road
D) Trade Road
- 34. ____ was made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.
A) Joan of Arc
B) Charles
C) Ferdinand
D) Isabella of Castile
- 35. In Spain and Portugal, Christians struggled against ____ to take back the Iberian Peninsula.
A) Ferdinand and Isabella
B) Muslims
C) Jews
D) Catholics
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