Deck 17: The Crises of the Fourteenth Century

Question 1

What modernist elements emerged from the fourteenth century? (Select all that apply.)

A) Increased value of the individual
B) Greater trust in science
C) Increased value of communal experience
D) Greater trust in religious authority

Answer 1

A,B

Question 2

What climactic change did people face in the later Middle Ages?

A) There was no climactic change
B) The temperature fluctuated dramatically from hot to cold
C) The temperature heated up two degrees Celsius
D) The temperature cooled two degrees Celsius

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What economic phenomenon immediately followed crop shortages?

A) Inflation
B) Deflation
C) Mercantilism
D) Free market

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What generally happened to banks amid the fourteenth century economic changes?

A) Many of them increased in power
B) Only English banks collapsed
C) Many banks across Europe collapsed
D) Lower class people were able to open their own banks

Question 5

The ____________ refers to a series of devastating crop failures that may have afflicted up to a third of the continent's landmass.

Question 6

What was a consequence of large-scale animal slaughter to alleviate starvation?

A) People were devastated due to emotional attachments to the herds
B) Animal losses prohibited the restarting of farming after famines
C) The quality of life of the surviving animals was much higher
D) Diseases spread more quickly among surviving herds

Question 7

Why was the onset of plague so deadly in Europe?

A) Europeans had no previous immunity
B) Mongols slaughtered European cities alongside the plague's spread
C) There was no attempt to prevent its spread
D) People willingly spread it against political orders

Question 8

Which regions were struck by the plague in December 1350? (Select all that apply.)

A) Sicily
B) Northern Ireland
C) Scandinavia
D) Southern England

Question 9

What was a positive outcome of the Black Death for certain members of society?

A) The Church gained power in the eyes of Christians
B) Women attained surprising new freedoms
C) Feudal landholders amassed increased rural populations
D) Surviving workers could demand higher wages

Question 10

What does this image communicate to its audience?

A) The selectiveness of death
B) The ubiquity of death
C) Italian loss of life
D) Measures taken against the spread of plague

Question 11

What triggered urban revolts across the Continent?

A) High newly imposed taxes
B) The decline of Church power
C) Royal commands for quarantine
D) The power of the wool merchants' guilds

Question 12

The _______________ was a 1381 uprising in England led by Wat Tyler and others.

Question 13

What truth about the Black Death is most highlighted by this fresco?

A) The plague could strike all different social classes
B) Kings were exempt from fear of plague
C) The poor should fear plague most
D) More men were stricken than women

Question 14

Which new weapons helped gain English victories in the Hundred Years War? (Select all that apply.)

A) Crossbow
B) Stockade
C) Trebuchet
D) Longbow

Question 15

Where did the first major battle of the Hundred Years War take place?

A) Agincourt
B) Crécy
C) Paris
D) London

Question 16

What major impact did Joan of Arc have on the Hundred Years War?

A) She raised French morale
B) She won every battle she rode into
C) She stood up to the inquisitors
D) She was universally respected as a female soldier

Question 17

What impact did new fighting techniques have on the feudal world?

A) Feudal life declined simply because the system got phased out
B) Feudal life was strengthened since peasants entered lord-vassal relationships
C) Feudal systems declined since peasants could kill trained knights
D) They had no impact on the feudal world

Question 18

What did the papal bull Unam Sanctam state?

A) Supreme papal power
B) Taxation on clerical property
C) The excommunication of King Philip IV
D) A Jubilee in the year 1300

Question 19

The period known as the __________________ spurred Christian fears that the popes were under the control of the French king.

Question 20

Which saint wrote impassioned letters for the pope to return to Rome?

A) St Thomas Aquinas
B) St Francis
C) St Catherine of Siena
D) St Joan of Arc