Deck 10: the Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

Question 1

How best to understand the crusades: as economic opportunities; a redirection of internecine, divisive intra-European conflicts; a clash between two different civilizations; or something else, perhaps?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Compare the political developments in France and England with those in the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. What similarities do you find? What differences do you find? How do you explain the differences?

Answer 2

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Question 3

The papacy underwent dramatic reforms and modifications in medieval times. How did this institution change at this time? What powers did it gain? What powers or influence did it lose?

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Question 4

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Oath of Salisbury Plain

Question 5

Discuss how the church administration of the seven sacraments shaped the lives of ordinary Europeans from cradle to grave.

Question 6

Discuss specifically the role of monastic orders, old and new, in shaping the politics and culture of medieval Europe.

Question 7

How does the behavior of Saint Francis of Assisi exemplify a return to early Christian ideals of church organization and operation? What does his great popularity and veneration among ordinary Europeans tell you about popular religion in medieval times?

Question 8

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Philip II Augustus

Question 9

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Capetian dynasty

Question 10

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John and Magna Carta

Question 11

Briefly explain intolerance in the thirteenth century. What groups were singled out for attack? Why were they attacked?

Question 12

What does the inquisition suggest about the relationships between society, the Catholic church as an institution, and political power?

Question 13

What accounted for the frequent discords between popes and monarchs? Was there a universal cause of friction?

Question 14

What were the chief spiritual aims of the Catholic mendicant orders? How did the means they chose to reach these spiritual goals affect European society and politics especially in cities?

Question 15

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Parliament

Question 16

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Thomas Becket

Question 17

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Domesday Book

Question 18

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William and the Norman Conquest

Question 19

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Henry II and the common law

Question 20

The crusades have been called "successful failures." In your opinion, why is this statement true?

Question 21

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Robert Guiscard

Question 22

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lay investiture

Question 23

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Aragon and Castile

Question 24

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Estates-General

Question 25

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papal monarchy

Question 26

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Philip IV the Fair

Question 27

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the Reconquista

Question 28

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Teutonic Knights

Question 29

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Frederick II

Question 30

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Pope Gregory VII

Question 31

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Cistercians

Question 32

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abbey of Cluny

Question 33

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Holy Roman Empire

Question 34

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Florence and Milan

Question 35

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Alexander Nevsky

Question 36

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Frederick I Barbarossa

Question 37

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Canossa

Question 38

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Concordat of Worms

Question 39

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Pope Innocent III

Question 40

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the Mongols

Question 41

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the Battle of Manzikert

Question 42

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the Peasants' Crusade

Question 43

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the sacraments

Question 44

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First Crusade

Question 45

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Pope Urban at Clermont

Question 46

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Poor Clares

Question 47

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Beguines

Question 48

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Holy Office/Inquisition

Question 49

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Cathars/Albigensians

Question 50

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Hildegard of Bingen

Question 51

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Dominicans

Question 52

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Seljuk Turks

Question 53

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Saladin and the Third Crusade

Question 54

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relics, indulgences and purgatory, pilgrimages

Question 55

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Crusades

Question 56

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the Virgin Mary

Question 57

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Peter the Hermit

Question 58

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Saint Francis of Assisi

Question 59

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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Question 60

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crusader states

Question 61

Frederick Barbarossa was defeated at Legnano in 1176, ending his attempts to control

A) the principalities of the Rhineland.
B) the Duchy of Burgundy.
C) the towns in northern Italy.
D) the Hanseatic towns in northern Germany.
E) the pope.

Question 62

During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Holy Roman Emperors

A) expanded the boundaries of the Empire.
B) increased the size of their armies dramatically.
C) attempted to exploit the resources of Italy.
D) bankrupted their kingdom with their lavish spending.
E) abandoned Italy for conquests in the north.

Question 63

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen

A) allowed his kingdom to fall into chaos by leading military ventures in Italy.
B) was considered incompetent by his contemporaries.
C) was a brilliant scholar who wrote treatises on political philosophy.
D) was perhaps the greatest military leader of the Middle Ages.
E) led the Fourth Crusade against Constantinople.

Question 64

Parliament in England originally arose from the

A) popular demand of the people.
B) insistence of the nobles.
C) military victory over France.
D) old Celtic tradition of Druidic councils.
E) king's need to collect new taxes.

Question 65

When the rule of the Capetians began at the end of the tenth century

A) France was the most powerful country in Europe.
B) the French king only controlled an area known as the Ile-de-France.
C) the French had just defeated the English in the Hundred Year's War.
D) Bordeaux was the French capital.
E) French Capet princes were the Kings of Jerusalem.

Question 66

Under William of Normandy and his son Henry I, medieval England

A) saw its Anglo-Saxon institutions abolished and replaced by Norman ones.
B) was isolated from continental affairs.
C) developed a strong, centralized monarchy.
D) saw all of its land become part of the Norman family's demesne.
E) became a fief of France.

Question 67

The policy that Spanish Christian rulers followed during the reconquest in distributing lands, houses, and property of Muslims to Christians was known as

A) reconquista.
B) arrangemento.
C) parlemento
D) repartimiento.
E) none of the above

Question 68

William the Conqueror took over England in 1066 after the Battle of

A) Poitiers.
B) Runnymede.
C) Hastings.
D) Bosworth Field.
E) Agincourt.

Question 69

The founder of the Mongol Empire was

A) Alexander Nevsky.
B) Kublai Khan.
C) Genghis Khan.
D) Khanbaliq
E) Vladimir of Kiev.

Question 70

One of the great political developments in England in the thirteenth century was

A) the Magna Carta, in which King John ended medieval rights and feudal obligations between king and nobles.
B) the emergence of the English Parliament under Edward I.
C) Edward I's successful unification of all the British Isles into a single feudal kingdom.
D) Edward I's Great Estates Council.
E) Henry III's creation of the Estates General.

Question 71

Feudalism in England under William I differed from feudalism in most other countries in that

A) he de-emphasized the role of knights.
B) he required all sub-vassals to swear allegiance to him.
C) homage was eliminated.
D) fiefs were drastically reduced in size.
E) manors were awarded only to members of William's own family.

Question 72

During the fourteenth-century development of the French monarchy

A) Philip II suffered defeats at the hands of King John.
B) Louis IX was known for his blatant denial of his subjects' rights.
C) King Alfonso X encouraged the development of three religions.
D) Philip IV inaugurated the Estates-General, France's first parliament.
E) John the Good defeated the English at the Battle of Crecy.

Question 73

Henry, Duke of Anjou, vastly increased his fortune in 1152 when he married the wealthy heiress

A) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
B) Matilda of Touraine.
C) Hildegard of Bingen.
D) Catherine d' Medici.
E) Catherine of Tours.

Question 74

The Domesday Book could best be described as a

A) a law code.
B) a manual of chivalry.
C) a religious tract.
D) a king's diary.
E) an economic census.

Question 75

The Christian reconquest of Spain in the thirteenth century

A) brought an economic revival, especially for the Andalusian region.
B) saw a politically united Spain.
C) saw the king of Castile, Alfonso X, expel all Jews and Muslims.
D) left Granada the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian peninsula.
E) drove all of the Moors from Spain and back into Africa.

Question 76

By the end of the twelfth century, Spain was

A) free of Muslim control in the northern half of the country.
B) a fully united Christian kingdom.
C) once again completely under the control of the Muslims.
D) the most powerful nation in Europe.
E) ruled by the Valois dynasty of France.

Question 77

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Fourth Crusade

Question 78

The Magna Carta could best be described as

A) a promise to work to develop democratic institutions.
B) an affirmation of the traditional rights of barons.
C) a guarantee of religious freedom for all Englishmen.
D) a guarantee of civil rights for all Englishmen.
E) the first feminist legislation of King John's reign.

Question 79

Scandinavia by the twelfth century

A) remained largely pagan and resistant to European culture.
B) contained the continent's most powerful nation, Sweden.
C) entered into a period of relative peace within and between local kingdoms.
D) had accepted Christianity through the agency of local kings who wished to better organize and govern their states.
E) abandoned their marriage alliances with the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 80

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Children's Crusade