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Chapter 13 Book Q/A
Pages 351-366 and Pages 366-371
Question | Answer |
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What percentage of the western European population was rural during the late Middle Ages? | 90% |
Western Europeans of the later Middle Ages underscored their allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and the Latin language and referred to themselves as | Latins |
What caused the end of serfdom in western Europe? | The black death |
Which factor was not a contributor to the doubling of the European population between 1100 and 1445? | unification under Christianity |
The Bubonic Plague was brought originally from Central Asia by the Mongols and eventually to Europe by | Genoese traders. |
The three-field system was | an agricultural method. |
Which of the following was not a social result of the Black Death epidemic? | A call for democracy |
The continued growth of trade and manufacturing after 1200 resulted in: | The growth of wealthy port cities and urban areas in the Latin West. |
Which of the following is not true of trading cities in Europe during the Middle Ages? | They were unable to produce products to compete with Asian products. |
. What official role did the Catholic Church play in the persecution of Jews in medieval Europe? | It played no official role in the persecution, as the church was officially the protector of Jews. |
The Renaissance began in | northern Italy. |
Latin Europe regained some of the "lost knowledge" of the Greek and Arab world when works by Plato and Aristotle came into the Latin West through: | the recapture of southern Italy from the Byzantines and of Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims. |
Before they were expelled in 1492, the largest population of Jews in the West was found in | Spain |
The two new religious orders in the 13th century that lent themselves to teaching and preaching to the common people were: | Dominican and Franciscans |
Which of the following does not describe the Divine Comedy? | It was written in Latin like most literature of the time. |
One of the significant features of the growth of literature in the 14-15th century was | the composition of literature in the vernacular. |
Which of the following fields of study were directly associated with the humanists? | Grammer, history, lanuguage, and rhetoric |
Which of the following fostered artistic growth in the Renaissance? | The patronage of wealthy merchants and prelates |
Credit for "the lost art of painting" being revived is traditionally given to: | Giotto |
What transformational change to later medieval military technology most directly impacted armored knights? | Crossbows with metal-tipped arrows. |
Which of the following statements about the Magna Carta is not true? | It gave new rights to the peasants |
Joan of Arc | led the French to victory in a decisive battle during the Hundred Years War. |
The Great Western Schism originated over | whether the seat of Catholicism should be in Rome or Constantinople. |
. Which of the following is true of "new monarchies" in Europe between 1450-1600? | The primary nations were England, France and Spain. |
Spain and Portugal's "reconquest" and political consolidation of the Iberian peninsula was designed to recapture land from | Muslims |
By 1500, the English Parliament | had become a permanent part of English government. |