| The early medieval church in the West | B. developed a more organized monastic structure under Saint Benedict. |
| The organization of the Roman Catholic church | A. was fundamentally strengthened as the pope became the recognized head of church in the west. |
| In an effort to avoid the potential mayhem of the Germanic system of personal revenge for the punishment of crimes, an alternative system arose that made us of a fine called | A. wergeld |
| Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries? | B. They served as centers of learning. |
| Charlemagne’s oversifht representatives, the messengers of the lord king, were the | C. missi dominici |
| Charlemagne’s carolingian empire accomplished all of the following except | A. it restored an urban economy based upon the use of money |
| Monasticism in medieval Europe | C. included women, many of whom belonged to royal families |
| Who were the Asian people, defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld, who became Christians and went on to establish the Kingdom of Hungary? | B. the Magyars |
| The incursions of the Scandinavian Vikings into other parts of Europe | B. were successful in part because of their ships had a shallow draft, allowing them to sail far up rivers, raiding and pillaging as they went. |
| The personal element of feudalism was most symbolized in the relationship involving | D. lords and vassals. |
| The piece of land that provided the feudal vassal’s economic support was the | A. fief. |
| Aristocratic medieval women | A. in unusual circumstances, could play a major role, as did Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| All of the following are correct regarding the development of fief-holding except it | E. was a result of the Church’s attempt to give serfs and peasants more social mobility |
| Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the Early Middle Ages | B. The Stirrup |
| Vassals | C. were supported by the income from a fief of land |
| As a result of the Norman conquest of 1066 | A. King William ordered a census of his new kingdom |
| The english king most responsible for establishing the common law was | D. Henry II |
| By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the english parliament | C. was a system of power sharing between the monarch and groups within the society. |
| France’s first parliament, begun under Phillip IV, was the | C. Estates-General |
| The early Capetian kings of France | B. were effective rulers only in the area around Paris. |
| Phillip II Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except he | B. became the Holy Roman Emporer |
| The Saxon king who created a new Roman Empire that included Germany and Italy was | C. Otto I |
| Central issues complicating the realization of an integrated Holy Roman Empire were | E. both a and c |
| The Principality of Kiev was founded by | B. Scandinavian Vikigs |
| All of the following were true about the development of Russia except | C. Magyar dominance created a Western-oriented bend in Russian unity. |
| The missionary brothers who created the Slavonic, or Cyrillic, alphabet, translated the Bible into Slavonic, and who developed Slavonic church services were | C. Cyril and Methodius |
| The Slavs | C. were divided into two religious groups, with most southern and eastern Slavs becoming Orthodox and most northern and western Slavs becoming Roman Catholic |
| During the High Middle Ages | C. agricultural productivity improved |
| High Middle Ages agriculture included all except | E. the use of slave labor |
| Which of the following is a valid statement about manorialism and the medieval manor? | A. Manorialism provided the economic foundation of feudalism |
| Which of the following is not an example of the nature of the medieval serfs lives? | A. They had more privileges than a burgher. |
| All of the following were true of the medieval peasants lives except | C. many became members of agricultural craft guilds |
| Which of the following was not true about medieval towns and cities | C. They were food producing, self-sufficient units, in which commerce was secondary |
| Which of the following was not true about medieval Christianity? | C. Papal authority had diminished by the thirteenth century. |
| The Dominican friars | B. were first led by the highly intellectual Dominic de Guzman |
| The medieval religious order which was noted for its commitment to living among the common people and ministering the poor was | C. the Franciscans |
| The medieval university | A. was originally an educational association of students and scholars as at Bologna |
| All of the following are true about scholasticism except | D. the author of the summa theologica was Abelard dun Scotus. |
| Which of the following was not characteristic of Romanesque architecture? | B. flying butresses |
| Which of the following was not characteristic of Gothic architecture | D. thich walls |
| All of the following were motives for the crusades except | C. the aim to increase religious toleration between muslims and Christians. |
| Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except | B. Belisarius |
| The Fourth Crusade resulted in | B. the fall of Constantinople |
| The early fourteenth century was troubled by | A. the ”little ice age” |
| The Black Death | A. was spread by fleas carrying Yersinia pestis. |
| Flagellants | D. were Christian fanatics who physically scourged themselves during the Black Death |
| All of the following regarding the Hundred Years War are correct except | A. traditional nobles fighting on horseback were the keys to victory. |
| In the early fourteenth century, the Catholic church | C. was moved to Avignon. |
| The Great Schism | B. saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope |
| The council which ended the Great Schism was the council of | D. Constance |
