Deck 13: Politics in the Thirteenth Century

Question 1

Which of the following was an important addition to thirteenth-century statecraft?

A) The abolishment of monarchies
B) The ability of women to vote in municipal elections
C) Belief in the absolute divine right of kings
D) Representative assemblies that checked ruling powers

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What issue typically first prompted pushback against ruling powers?

A) Taxation
B) Inheritance patterns
C) Military drafts
D) Usury

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What aspects of medieval culture prompted the rise of representative bodies? (Select all that apply.)

A) Roman self-serving principles
B) Greek individual autonomy from law
C) A Christian sense of community
D) Germanic tribal assemblies

Answer 3

C,D

Question 4

What purpose did Magna Carta serve for English barons?

A) It established radical new baronial rights
B) It confirmed and protected their old privileges
C) It did away with all royal power
D) It fully subordinated the barons to royal authority

Question 5

The Provisions of Oxford established a baronial council under the oversight of an official called a ________________.

Question 6

Which king first shaped France into a centralized, powerful monarchy with Paris as its capital?

A) Hugh Capet
B) Louis VII
C) Philip Augustus
D) Louis IX

Question 7

A __________ is a proto-urban community that could earn a charter to become a legally recognized city.

Question 8

What did Louis IX contribute to the French political system?

A) Parlement
B) Magna Carta
C) Justiciars
D) Apanages

Question 9

How did Philip IV attempt to resolve his financial woes?

A) By raising tithes for crusade
B) By borrowing from other monarchs
C) By persecuting the Templars
D) By expelling Christian moneylenders

Question 10

What was Philip IV's goal at the 1302 Estates General?

A) To condemn the remaining Templars to death
B) To disband religious orders that resisted his authority
C) To sow pro-papal sentiment among the French
D) To rebuff Church limits on raising military funding

Question 11

What best describes Frederick II's attitude towards Germany?

A) He ceded power to magnates due to disinterest in ruling there
B) He preferred it to his home island of Sicily
C) He aggressively fought to centralize imperial rule there
D) He envied the magnates who held de facto power

Question 12

In Germany, what dynasty took over after that of Frederick II?

A) Ottonian
B) Habsburg
C) Hohenstaufen
D) Angevin

Question 13

Which states dominated Mediterranean politics? (Select all that apply.)

A) Genoa
B) Byzantium
C) Crown of Aragon
D) Venice

Question 14

From which group did Genoa and Pisa reclaim Corsica and Sardinia?

A) Catalans
B) Byzantines
C) Germans
D) Muslims

Question 15

The export of _____________ helped make Venice extremely wealthy.

Question 16

Under Peter the Great, which territory of the Crown of Aragon was the most eastern?

A) The island of Sicily
B) Part of the Greek peninsula
C) The island of Majorca
D) The kingdom of Valencia

Question 17

What term best describes medieval Hungary?

A) Rural
B) Urban
C) Latin-oriented
D) Industrial

Question 18

What form of Christianity flourished most widely in converted Poland?

A) Military orders
B) Parish Catholicism
C) Monasticism
D) Eremitism

Question 19

What was the major contribution of Sts Cyril and Methodius?

A) Introduction of a Slavic alphabet
B) Importation of Latin Christianity to Poland
C) Defeat of the Teutonic Knights
D) Negotiation of an alliance with the Byzantines

Question 20

Which group ultimately defeated the Mongols?

A) Mamluks
B) Byzantines
C) Saljuqs
D) Venetians