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Chapter 14
Practice Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the vernacular? | Common Language of a place or religion |
| Who were scholars/scholastics? | Men who studied together at universities. |
| What is a medieval guild? | An association of people who worked at the same craft or trade. |
| Who was Richard The Lion Hearted? | The English King who led the Third Crusade |
| Why was there a call for a Crusade? | Pope Urban II wanted to gain control of the Holy Land |
| What is Simony? | The act of selling Church positions |
| Who was Saladin? | Muslim leader who allowed Christians to freely visit the Holy Land after truce with English king in 1192 |
| Where was the Holy Land? | Palestine |
| What was the Commercial Revolution? | Expansion of trade and business |
| What was the new system of farming? | The Three Field System |
| What were the effects of the Crusades? | Return of trade and learning, weakend Church and pope power, and increased power of kings |
| Who was Thomas Aquinas? | A scholar from 1200 who said logic could prove many religious truths |
| Who were burghers? | Merchants/craftspeople who lived demanded privileges like freedom from tolls and right to govern their towns |
| What is a Letter of Credit? | Documents given to a single person by the bank to take out an amount of money from that bank or its branches |
| Who invaded England? | Angles, Saxons, Normen |
| Who won the Battle of Hastings? | William Duke of Normandy and the Normans |
| What did English Kings try to achieve? | Hold and add to their French lands and Strengthen their own power over the Church and nobles |
| What did Henry II do for England when ruling from 1154 to 1189? | Introduced the use of a Jury in English courts |
| What problems did King John cause while ruling England from 1199 to 1216? | Tried to take money from subjects, Alienated Church and threatened to take away self government town charters, raised taxes very high to finance wars. |
| What major English document was agreed on June 15, 1215? | The Manga Carta (Great Charter) |
| What did Edward I create in November 1295? | Model Parliament |