Quiz: History Of The West In Middle Ages

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Questions and Answers
  • 1. 

    What crop rotation system revolutionized the army in the Middle Ages?

  • 2. 

    What Canterbury Monk became a martyr to the cause against the Catholic Church?  

  • 3. 

    Collectively, what was the name of the seven things that had to be performed by the Catholic Church before you would be allowed into heaven?

  • 4. 

    Each time the Catholic Church created a committee to deal with Harracy, it was known as the Holy Office or the________.

  • 5. 

    What was the name of the plague that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages?

  • 6. 

    What was ruled by the Council of Fathers?

  • 7. 

    Under whose reign, was the Act of Supremacy passed in England?

  • 8. 

    Who was the King of Spain when they were defeated by England and the Spanish Armada destroyed?

  • 9. 

    What king, after a long fight with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, received absolutement and forgiveness after humbling himself before the pope at Canossa?

  • 10. 

    The Slavic Tribe of people came from which people?

  • 11. 

    Which female is known to be somewhat responsible for the Papacy moving back to Rome from Avignon?

  • 12. 

    In 1071, at the Battle of Manzikert, the Turks defeated who?

  • 13. 

    Under feudalism in the early middle ages, the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide what?

  • 14. 

    The Magna Carta is a document from which country?

  • 15. 

    The Golden Bull of 1356 is a document of which country?

  • 16. 

    The Hierarchial Thief holding system in which vassals in turn had vassals of their own was called what?

  • 17. 

    The Carolingian scholar known as Alcuin served under what ruler?

  • 18. 

    The rein of Queen Mary of england is most noted for her failure to restore what in England?

  • 19. 

    What doctrine of the Catholic Church opposed by luther holds that Is it the bread and wine used at communion are miraculously turned into the body and blood of Jesus. 

  • 20. 

    The first University of Northern Europe was the University of...?

  • 21. 

    Italian renaissance humanism was based on the study of what?

  • 22. 

    The society of Jesus, those that belonged to that reformed group were called what?

  • 23. 

     The Golden Bull of 1356, what was its purpose?

  • 24. 

    What language in the 15th century was sought out to learn?

  • 25. 

    What caused the Black Death?

  • 26. 

    The great Schism is known as a period in the Catholic Church marked by what?

  • 27. 

    What was the major cause of pollution and disease in medieval cities?

  • 28. 

    Why was parliament created in England?

  • 29. 

    What was the purpose of the Catholic churches Practice of Indulgences?

  • 30. 

    In France, Calvinists were known as...?

  • 31. 

    What two countries fought the hundred years war?

  • 32. 

    What religious group went about towns physically punishing themselves to win the forgiveness of God?

  • 33. 

    What tribe or group of people from Scandinavia raided Europe and its settlements in the 13th and 14th century?

  • 34. 

    What agricultural invention of the 14th century allowed farmers to plow and arrive?

  • 35. 

    The islamic world by the 12th century was dominated by what group?

  • 36. 

    What religious reformer is said to have laid the egg that Luther hatched?

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