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

Question 1

What was the role of monastic orders, old and new, in shaping the politics and culture of medieval Europe?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
Parliament

Answer 2

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Question 3

Talk about:
exchequer

Answer 3

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Question 4

The Crusades have been called "successful failures." Is that an accurate assessment? Why or why not?

Question 5

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 6

What religious and non-religious motivations led to the Crusades?

Question 7

Talk about:
Henry II and the common law

Question 8

Compare and contrast the political developments in France and England with those in the Holy Roman Empire and Italy between 1000 and 1300. What circumstances explain the differences?

Question 9

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

Question 10

Talk about:
Thomas Becket

Question 11

Talk about:
Capetian dynasty

Question 12

What factors caused the thirteenth century to be a time of intolerance in medieval Europe? Which groups were singled out for attack and why?

Question 13

Talk about:
Domesday Book

Question 14

Talk about:
William of Normandy and the Norman Conquest

Question 15

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

Question 16

What does the inquisition suggest about the interconnections among society, the Catholic Church as an institution, and political power?

Question 17

Talk about:
Oath of Salisbury Plain

Question 18

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 indicate about popular religion in medieval times?

Question 19

Talk about:
John and Magna Carta

Question 20

Explain the importance of the veneration of saints, the use of relics, and the act of pilgrimage for ordinary people in the High Middle Ages.

Question 21

Talk about:
abbey of Cluny

Question 22

Talk about:
lay investiture

Question 23

Talk about:
Holy Roman Empire

Question 24

Talk about:
Philip IV the Fair

Question 25

Talk about:
the Reconquista

Question 26

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Estates-General

Question 27

Talk about:
King Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII

Question 28

Talk about:
Frederick II

Question 29

Talk about:
Canossa

Question 30

Talk about:
Frederick I Barbarossa

Question 31

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Aragon and Castile

Question 32

Talk about:
papal curia and papal monarchy

Question 33

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Teutonic Knights

Question 34

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boyars

Question 35

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Florence and Milan

Question 36

Talk about:
the Mongols

Question 37

Talk about:
Alexander Nevsky

Question 38

Talk about:
Concordat of Worms

Question 39

Talk about:
Philip II Augustus

Question 40

Talk about:
Robert Guiscard

Question 41

Talk about:
relics, indulgences and purgatory, pilgrimages

Question 42

Talk about:
the Virgin Mary

Question 43

Talk about:
interdict

Question 44

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Seljuk Turks

Question 45

Talk about:
excommunication

Question 46

Talk about:
Pope Urban at Clermont

Question 47

Talk about:
Cathars/Albigensians and dualism

Question 48

Talk about:
the sacraments

Question 49

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Cistercians

Question 50

Talk about:
Hildegard of Bingen

Question 51

Talk about:
the Battle of Manzikert

Question 52

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Dominicans

Question 53

Talk about:
sultan

Question 54

Talk about:
Saint Francis of Assisi

Question 55

Talk about:
Crusades

Question 56

Talk about:
Holy Office/Inquisition

Question 57

Talk about:
Pope Innocent III

Question 58

Talk about:
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Question 59

Talk about:
Poor Clares

Question 60

Talk about:
Beguines

Question 61

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 62

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 63

Talk about:
the Peasants' Crusade

Question 64

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 65

The Christian offensive in Spain against the Muslims 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 66

Talk about:
crusader states

Question 67

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

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

Question 68

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

A) King John's success in bringing about a drastic reduction of the power of the nobility.
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) the written recognition that the English monarchy should have absolute power.
E) all of the above.

Question 69

Talk about:
Saladin and the Third Crusade

Question 70

Talk about:
Peter the Hermit

Question 71

Talk about:
First Crusade

Question 72

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

A) he deemphasized the role of knights.
B) he required all subvassals 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 73

Talk about:
Children's Crusade

Question 74

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 75

The power of the Capetian monarchy was strengthened by the emergence of

A) a council for advice.
B) a chamber of accounts for finances.
C) the Parlement .
D) the Estates-General.
E) all of the above.

Question 76

Talk about:
Fourth Crusade

Question 77

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 78

The Capetian king who wrested control of several French territories from the King John of England was

A) Louis VII.
B) Philip II.
C) Louis IX.
D) Philip IV.
E) Henry IV.

Question 79

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 80

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.