Deck 9: The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

Question 1

Assume that you are a European peasant sharing your thoughts with your fellow farmers. What grievances might you collectively have with your local lord and with local church officials, and for what might you be thankful or appreciative?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What were the consequences for Europe of the rediscovery of Justinian's Body of Civil Law?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What burdens did medieval female aristocrats have to confront and what freedoms did they enjoy?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What were the social and economic consequences of climate change in the High Middle Ages?

Question 5

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chivalry

Question 6

What similarities and differences do you seen between the medieval and modern university?

Question 7

What was life like in a Medieval City? How was urban society organized and governed?

Question 8

In your opinion, would life in a medieval city have been preferable to living as a serf?

Question 9

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a castle keep

Question 10

Who were the scholastics and what was their overarching goal?

Question 11

Discuss the structures and changes in daily life of the ordinary European medieval village. How did most Europeans live and what were the material factors shaping their behavior at the communal level?

Question 12

Why, where, and by whom were new cities and towns founded in the High Middle Ages? What were their major features? And what role did cities play in this time period?

Question 13

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three-field system

Question 14

Discuss the revival of trade in the High Middle Ages, giving special attention to the connection between trade and urbanization.

Question 15

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aristocracy

Question 16

What role did the Muslim world play in the revival of Greek scholarship in medieval Europe?

Question 17

Compare and contrast the Romanesque church and the Gothic cathedral. What importance should be attached to the differences you note?

Question 18

What were the causes and what were the consequences of the development of the early medieval universities?

Question 19

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horse collar

Question 20

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carruca

Question 21

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 22

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bourgeoisie

Question 23

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universitas

Question 24

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University of Bologna

Question 25

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charters of liberty

Question 26

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knighthood

Question 27

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journeymen

Question 28

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borough/burgh

Question 29

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Justinian's Body of Civil Law

Question 30

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apprentice

Question 31

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Champagne fairs

Question 32

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Blanche of Castile

Question 33

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urban pollution

Question 34

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Irnerius

Question 35

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London

Question 36

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commercial capitalism

Question 37

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Flanders

Question 38

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guilds

Question 39

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Venice

Question 40

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citizens of cities

Question 41

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barrel vault

Question 42

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Summa Theologica

Question 43

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chanson de geste

Question 44

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The Song of Roland

Question 45

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scholasticism

Question 46

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Romanesque

Question 47

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artium baccalaureus

Question 48

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Averroës

Question 49

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Euclid

Question 50

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vernacular

Question 51

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Oxford and Cambridge

Question 52

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artium magister

Question 53

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Thomas Aquinas

Question 54

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troubadours

Question 55

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"the queen of the sciences"

Question 56

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Gothic

Question 57

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the liberal arts

Question 58

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Jaufre Rudel

Question 59

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Aristotle

Question 60

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town-and-gown conflict

Question 61

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Saint-Denis

Question 62

What was the carruca?

A)A new type of blast furnace
B)A Spanish dance involving four partners
C)A heavy-wheeled, iron-tipped plow
D)A harness for draft animals without collars
E)A slender blade

Question 63

What was one consequence of the new agriculture of the Early Middle Ages?

A)The destruction of the forests
B)The contamination of the water supply
C)Increased dependence of serfs on their lords
D)Increased famine
E)Polluted water systems

Question 64

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a code of ethics for knights known as ____ evolved among the nobility.

A)manorialism
B)papacy
C)chivalry
D)chanson de geste
E)feudalism

Question 65

Blanche of Castile served as regent of

A)Catalan.
B)Tuscany.
C)Spain.
D)England.
E)France.

Question 66

The role of peasant women in the medieval economy is best described as

A)economically inconsequential.
B)important, with a variety of contributions.
C)limited to the household.
D)mostly at home with some labor outside the home.
E)more important than men.

Question 67

What was the main job of the village priest?

A)To serve as a judge on manorial courts
B)To identify potential heretics
C)To teach villagers the basic elements of Christianity
D)To settle disputes between villagers
E)To collect taxes for the lord

Question 68

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Abbot Suger

Question 69

Many agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages depended on the production of tools made from what material?

A)Wood
B)Iron
C)Steel
D)Copper
E)Silver

Question 70

What was an advantage of the three-field system?

A)It kept prices for crops high.
B)It kept more land in cultivation at any given time.
C)It required less water for irrigation.
D)It made crops easier to plant and harvest.
E)It required fewer workers than other systems.

Question 71

Which statement best describes combative tournaments involving knights?

A)They were sanctioned by the church as a testing ground for religious faith.
B)They consisted of the "melee" in which knights with a grudge fought to the death.
C)They were considered excellent and necessary training for warfare.
D)They were banned by 1100.
E)They were popular only in England but not on the continent.

Question 72

What was the most common drink of the medieval peasant in northern European countries?

A)Ale
B)Beer
C)Wine
D)Cider
E)Milk

Question 73

What was the basic staple of the peasant diet?

A)Potatoes
B)Rice
C)Pork
D)Beef
E)Bread

Question 74

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pointed arch and flying buttress

Question 75

What allowed for a more diversified and intelligent use of farmland?

A)The two-field system
B)The iron-tipped plow
C)Serfdom
D)Riparian water rights
E)The three-field system

Question 76

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stained-glass windows

Question 77

Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to two kings, first Louis VII of France, and then

A)Louis VIII of France.
B)Henry II of England.
C)Philip I of Spain.
D)Richard II of England.
E)Ferdinand IV of Spain.

Question 78

Between 1000 and 1300, the population of Europe

A)remained static.
B)roughly quintupled.
C)steadily fell.
D)increased by about 10 percent.
E)roughly doubled.

Question 79

What was true of almost all medieval castles?

A)They served as residences for noble families.
B)They had little military value.
C)They were enormous, usually housing thousands of people.
D)They were owned and operated by the church.
E)They had high towers that soared more than 300 feet in the air.

Question 80

In the three-field system, one field was planted with winter grains, a second with spring grains and vegetables, and the third field was

A)planted with corn.
B)allowed to lie fallow.
C)used to graze animals.
D)used for markets and fairs.
E)planted with cotton or sugar.