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WH Mid-term
50 questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Commercial Revolution? | The expansion of trade and business. |
| What was the effect of the three-field system? | Farmers produced more food and villagers had more to eat. |
| Define the nature of a guild. | An association on people who worked in the same profession. |
| What are characteristics of Gothic architecture? | Very little light and rounded arches. |
| What was the purpose of the Reconquista? | To drive the Muslims out of Spain. |
| What was a function that a craft guild did not perform? | To borrow and loan money. |
| What three problems did the Church try to reform? | Simony, lay investiture and the marriage of priests. |
| What two steps did both England and France take towards developing democratic rule? | Adding commoners into their government and establishing common law as well as a jury trial. |
| What was another name for the Byzantine Empire? | The Eastern Roman Empire. |
| What was a type of government in which a ruler controls both the religion and government? | An autocracy. |
| What was the main contribution that the Byzantine Empire left behind? | The legacy of Greek and Roman knowledge. |
| What was the main issue between the two branches of Christianity? | The use of icons in the Church. |
| Who was the most ruthless and feared leader of the Russian Empire? | Ivan the Terrible. |
| What was the first settlement that became the center of early Russian civilization? | The city of Kiev. |
| What were the two most important features of civilization that the Russian's adopted from the Byzantine Empire? | Government/Autocracy and Religion/Eastern Orthodox. |
| What was Justinian's greatest achievement? | Reform of Roman laws. |
| What was the Great Schism during the time period of the Byzantine Empire a division over? | The belief system of Christianity. |
| What two goals did early English kings try to achieve? | To hold and add to their french lands and to strengthen their own power over nobles and the Church. |
| What is lay investiture? | The practice of the appointment of church officials by kings and nobles. |
| What was the main job of a squire? | To serve a knight. |
| What is the concept of feudalism? | A system of loyalties based on mutual obligations. |
| Why was the Church the most powerful institution of the Middle Ages? | They were the keepers of knowledge while most people were uneducated. |
| What is the holy book and leader of religious services for Islam? | The Qur'an and Imam. |
| What do Muslims believe about Muhammad? | He was the last and greatest prophet. |
| How is Islam similar to Judaism and Christianity? | They taught the same ethical values, believe in one God and have the same original founder. |
| What is the key difference between Sunnis and Shiites? | How the leader or caliph is chosen. |
| What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is qualified to be the leader or caliph? | Shiite. |
| How can Muslim centers of learning best be described? | Places that made advances in education. |
| What is the holy day of the week for Islam? | Friday. |
| Where are the customs and laws of Islam such as business practices and marriage found? | Shari'a. |
| What does Islam mean? | To submit to God. |
| Who is the religious leader and what is the house of worship for Judaism? | A rabbi and a temple. |
| What is fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month called in the religion of Islam? | Ramadan. |
| What is the holiest day of the year for someone who practices Judaism? | Yom Kippur. |
| Which of the following was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire? | Justinian's Code. |
| Which of the following titles did Ivan the III use? | Czar. |
| What helped cause the decline of the Byzantine Empire? | The Mongols & Turks conquer Constantinople, the Bubonic Plague and the disruption of Byzantine trade. |
| What was one of the most important contributions of the Byzantine Empire? | Preservation of Christianity, Greek knowledge and Roman culture. |
| What Seljuks converted to which of the following religions? | Islam. |
| What culture most influenced the Seljuk culture? | Persian Culture. |
| Which civilizations most influenced the development of Russia? | Byzantines and Mongols. |
| Why did the Age of Chivalry eventually decline? | The invention of the longbow made learning to become a knight irrelevant and the Hundred Years' War. |
| Which developments did the most to end the Middle Ages? | The longbow, the Bubonic Plague, the Great Schism, and the Hundred Years' War. |
| What caused devastation which both disrupted and led to the collapse of Medieval society? | The Bubonic Plague. |
| How was the Great Schism finally resolved? | When all 3 popes were forced to resign and one was elected. |
| What was the main effect of the Commercial Revolution? | More money was available for creating business. |
| What function did craft guilds not perform? | No borrowing or loaning money. |
| How did the Battle of Hastings change the course of English history? | The Normans took control of England. |
| What did the Magna Carta guarantee? | Basic legal rights. |
| What was the legislative body of Medieval England? | Parliament. |
| What was the chief/main goal of the Crusades? | To regain the holy land, Jerusalem and Palestine. |
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