Deck 14: Latin Europe

Question 1

Western Europeans of the later Middle Ages underscored their allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and the Latin language and referred to themselves as

A)Franks.
B)Europeans.
C)Westerners.
D)"Old Worlders."
E)Latins.

Answer 1

Latins.

Question 2

Which of the following was not a social result of the Black Death epidemic?

A)a demand by laborers for higher pay
B)a call for democracy
C)peasant revolutions
D)an increase in per capita production
E)an end of serfdom for all intents and purposes

Answer 2

a call for democracy

Question 3

What percentage of the western European population lived in urban areas during the late Middle Ages?

A)10%
B)25%
C)50%
D)70%
E)90%

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

The Hanseatic League was based in

A)Germany.
B)Russia.
C)the Ottoman Empire.
D)England.
E)Bulgaria.

Question 5

One of the most significant growth industries in the fourteenth century was

A)merchant banking.
B)stonemasonry.
C)papermaking.
D)wool weaving.
E)metal smelting.

Question 6

Sugar grown with slave labor on which island became a model for the slave-based sugar economy of the New World?

A)Crete
B)Cyprus
C)Sicily
D)All of these are correct.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 7

What caused the end of serfdom in western Europe?

A)the Black Death
B)the rise of popular literature
C)the rise of cities
D)the decimated agricultural productivity of the early thirteenth century
E)emancipation after participating in the Hundred Years' War

Question 8

In Europe's later Middle Ages, the rapid growth of industry resulted in environmental changes; which of the following was not among them?

A)deforestation
B)water pollution by industries such as tanneries
C)the damming of rivers
D)the creation of quarry pits and mines
E)the extinction of many animal species

Question 9

Windmills and watermills

A)were invented in later medieval Europe.
B)dated back to Roman times and had long been common in the Islamic world.
C)were banned by the pope as the "devil's wheel."
D)had little impact in Europe.
E)were unknown in China.

Question 10

What was the word for charging interest, which Latin Christians generally considered to be a sin?

A)penury
B)usury
C)falsity
D)None of these are correct.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 11

From what city was the Bubonic Plague first carried into Europe?

A)Paris
B)Rome
C)Venice
D)Genoa
E)Kaffa

Question 12

Which factor was NOT a contributor to the doubling of the European population between 1100 and 1445?

A)economic growth
B)warm temperatures
C)new farming techniques
D)few epidemics
E)unification under Christianity

Question 13

Which European country had the largest Jewish communities before 1492?

A)Spain
B)Italy
C)France
D)The Netherlands
E)Germany

Question 14

Te Hanseatic League traded extensively in what body of water?

A)Black Sea
B)Baltic Sea
C)North Sea
D)Mediterranean Sea
E)Red Sea

Question 15

Guilds, which came to dominate medieval European life, was

A)a band of knights without ties to a lord.
B)an association of craft specialists from the same trade.
C)an order of monks.
D)a unit of currency in use throughout the Latin West.
E)a measurement of distance.

Question 16

The continued growth of trade and manufacturing after 1200 resulted in

A)the growth of wealthy port cities and urban areas in the Latin West.
B)the continuing economic depression in agriculture.
C)the isolation of Europe from the rest of the world.
D)religious revival and expansion.
E)strict government regulation.

Question 17

The three-field system was

A)the traditional three-part contest performed by knights.
B)the legal system.
C)the political relationship between king, lord, and serf.
D)the technology used in medieval optics.
E)an agricultural method.

Question 18

What was the average mortality rate in Western Europe from the Black Death?

A)one in ten
B)one in four
C)one in three
D)one in two
E)two in three

Question 19

The misleadingly named "Fourth Crusade" was actually a Venetian-inspired assault on what city?

A)Alexandria
B)Athens
C)Tunis
D)Constantinople
E)Rome

Question 20

What official role did the Catholic Church play in the persecution of Jews in medieval Europe?

A)It usually organized the persecution.
B)It did not often participate but usually looked the other way when persecution took place.
C)It assisted the authorities in helping to find out which Jews were responsible for any social disturbances.
D)It advocated a separate Jewish state in Europe.
E)It played no official role, but only the papal city of Rome left its Jews undisturbed.

Question 21

Iranian philosopher Ibn Sina was known in the West as

A)Aristotle.
B)Copernicus.
C)Avicenna.
D)Aquinas
E)Alighieri

Question 22

The most notable work in Scholasticism, the Summa Theologica , was written by

A)Geoffrey Chaucer.
B)Thomas Aquinas.
C)Dante Aligheri.
D)Jan Hus.
E)Peter Abelard.

Question 23

One of the significant features of the growth of literature in the fourteenth to fifteenth century was

A)the development of epic poetry.
B)the composition of literature in Latin.
C)the incorporation of political criticism.
D)the composition of literature in the vernacular.
E)the inclusion of common people in literary tales.

Question 24

Which of the following fostered artistic growth in the Renaissance?

A)the ability of the average person to afford art
B)the war against the Muslims, in which many Muslim artists and artwork were captured
C)the "artistic tax" by which part of every salary was used to support museums
D)the patronage of wealthy merchants and prelates
E)universal education

Question 25

Spain and Portugal's "reconquest" and political consolidation of the Iberian Peninsula was designed to recapture land from

A)muslims.
B)protestants.
C)peasants.
D)slaves.
E)Africans.

Question 26

Which of the following statements about the Magna Carta is NOT true?

A)It affirmed that monarchs are subject to established law.
B)It confirmed the independence of the church and the city of London.
C)It gave new rights to the peasants.
D)It means "Great Charter."
E)It guaranteed the nobles hereditary rights.

Question 27

Which peasant led French forces to victory over the English in 1429 during the Hundred Years' War?

A)Phillip the Fair
B)Nicolaus Copernicus
C)Isabella of France
D)Joan of Arc
E)William the Conqueror

Question 28

The Great Western Schism featured rival popes in Rome and

A)Constantinople.
B)Paris.
C)Avignon.
D)Venice.
E)London.

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of the Gothic cathedral?

A)the flying buttress
B)giant stained-glass windows
C)the Gothic arch
D)their great height
E)the minarets

Question 30

Instructions: Answer the following question(s).
What were the major causes of population decline in the fourteenth century, and what results did this have in social, economic, and political terms?

Question 31

What "architectural wonder" first made its appearance in France on or about the year 1140 CE?

A)guild halls
B)opera houses
C)gothic cathedrals
D)chateaux
E)Romanesque churches

Question 32

Latin Europe innovated these ideas as degree-granting corporations imparting both religious and nonreligious knowledge.

A)Madrasas
B)Museums
C)Monasteries
D)Universities
E)Guilds

Question 33

The Renaissance began in

A)eastern France.
B)southern England.
C)southern Russia.
D)Austria.
E)northern Italy.

Question 34

What transformational change to later medieval military technology most directly impacted armored knights?

A)the catapult
B)crossbows with metal-tipped arrows
C)the organization of knights into armies and primitive biological warfare
D)universal male conscription and the invention of the mace
E)military advancement based on merit

Question 35

Which of the following is true of "new monarchies" in Europe between 1450 and 1600?

A)The primary nations were England, France, and Spain.
B)It increased centralized power within largely fixed geographic limits.
C)It increased control over powerful noble families.
D)They relied on full-time armies paid for through taxes.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 36

Who led in the use of the new printing press?

A)Erasmus
B)Van Eyck
C)Da Vinci
D)Guttenberg
E)Rembrandt

Question 37

By 1500, the English Parliament

A)had been disbanded by King John.
B)had overthrown the king and gained complete governmental authority.
C)had become a permanent part of English government.
D)had yet to be officially formed.
E)had been disbanded.

Question 38

Which of the following fields of study were directly associated with the humanists?

A)grammar
B)rhetoric
C)history
D)language
E)All of these are correct.

Question 39

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales ?

A)Virgil
B)Chaucer
C)Dante
D)Petrarch
E)Boccaccio

Question 40

Latin Europe regained some of the "lost knowledge" of the Greek and Arab world when works by Plato and Aristotle came into the Latin West through

A)the recapture of northern Germany from the Huns.
B)the recapture of southern Italy from the Byzantines and of Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims.
C)contact with the court of Khubilai Khan.
D)the discovery of the remains of the Library of Alexandria.
E)the lively trade in classical antiquities.

Question 41

Scholasticism attempted to combine which two areas of intellectual development?

Question 42

The rival claim to the papacy by France found a conflict during the Schism that placed a second pope in which French city?

Question 43

Which astronomer challenged the assumption that the earth was the center of God's universe?

Question 44

What is humanism? What technological innovation encouraged the spread of humanist texts in Renaissance Europe?

Question 45

The first antipollution law (in response to the environmental changes of industrial growth)in Latin Europe was passed by

Question 46

One of the most significant events in Europe in the later Middle Ages was the rise of the new monarchies. What three closely related transformations led to this rise? Choose one of the monarchies to illustrate your answer.

Question 47

What were the major events of the Hundred Years' War?

Question 48

What technology was key to the growth of mining, metalworking, and mechanical energy in the late Middle Ages?

Question 49

Describe the changes in civic life associated with urban growth in later medieval Europe. Use the document in the Diversity and Dominance section, "Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272-1349," in your analysis. What do these documents reveal about the position of Jews in the Latin West?

Question 50

What system required one-third of land to lie fallow each year?

Question 51

Discuss the use of Latin versus vernacular language in the transmission of knowledge during the Middle Ages. What differences did language make?

Question 52

The later Middle Age was a period of great intellectual and artistic achievement marked by what is often called the Renaissance. What was the Renaissance, and what were some of its most important and lasting cultural and artistic achievements?

Question 53

According to the text, in the Canterbury Tales , Chaucer captured the unsavory reputation of what profession?

Question 54

What led to the placing of a pope at Avignon?

Question 55

Explain the causes and effects of rural poverty in Europe between 1200 and 1500. What role did the natural environment play in people's survival?

Question 56

Approximately what percentage of the western European population died in the Black Death?

Question 57

Describe the reconquest of Iberia.

Question 58

How was Europe's success linked to its contacts with Byzantine and Muslim neighbors?

Question 59

What were some of the technological advances and innovations in medieval Europe that some historians refer to as an "industrial revolution"? What were the environmental consequences?

Question 60

Which was the only city to leave Jews undisturbed before 1500?

Question 61

Describe the Black Death and outline its impact on Latin Europe.

Question 62

Describe the birth and growth of universities and the role that scholasticism played in twelfth and thirteenth-century Latin Europe.