The sixteenth century was on the whole a time of economic expansion for Europe and saw the continent grow in regards to trade and military power. Having covered Bentley Ch. 19 on the influence of Europe, how much do you recall? Take up this multiple choice tests and see for yourself.
The emperors were not crowned by the popes
The Byzantine emperors did not acknowledge the Holy Roman Empire
The people who lived there did not practice Christianity
It did not restore imperial unity to western Europe
Population pressure
Use of the horseshoe and horse collar
Increased cultivation of beans
The shift from horses to oxen
European long-distance trade with China was perfectly safe
Local lords always robbed traveling merchants
By using paper money in China, Europeans paid higher prices for their goods
Traders should try to bargain for the cheapest guide
Known for its determination to reconquer Spain and wrest it from Muslim control
Responsible for curbing the expansion of the Holy Roman Empire
An association of trading cities of northern Europe
A military religious order
England, Scotland, and Ireland
The three rolyal estates of the Capetian kings
The three social classes
The big three city-states in north Italy
Their citizens demanded autonomy from local lords
Unlike feudal manors, cities were egalitarian societies
Unlike the organization of the workforce on feudal manors, women became part of the working class in cities
Townspeople included all three estates
Set standards of quality for manufactured goods
Administer justice on behalf of the city government
Determine the prices at which members had to sell their products
Regulate the entry of new workers in their groups
Liberal arts
Theology
Law and medicine
The writings of Aquinas
The growing dynamism of popular heresies
The development of scholasticism
A rejection of the Latin classics
A decline in Christian belief
The Bantu people's devotion to the creator god
Buddhists' devotion to Bodhisattvas
Muslims' devotion to Mecca
The Jews' devotion to the Torah
Waldensians
Cathars
Albigensians
Mendicants
The campaigns showed European military superiority to Muslim armies
One of the crusades conquered Constantinople instead of recapturing Palestine
The crusaders traded eagerly with Muslim merchants in the eastern Mediterranean
The crusaders introduced to Europe new agricultural products they learned about from the Muslims
The reconquest of Spain
The reconquest of Sicily
The recapture of Palestine
The Albigensian crusade