Unit IIIA Quest Review
Q: The middle ages would start with what significant event A: Fall of Rome Q: Land was the basis of one’s A: Wealth and power Q: Was from Normandy, invaded and conquered England in 1066 A: William the Conqueror Q: Crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on A: Charlemagne/Charles the Great Q: Conquered China, tries and fails to conquer Japan A: Mongol Empire
Q: Goths played a role in A: Fall of Rome Q: Why Constantinople was a great location A: Trade between Europe and Asia Q: Shows that science/reason/philosophy could help explain religion A: Scholasticism Q: Agriculture was the basic economy for A: Feudal manor Q: Charlemagne sought to do what with his power A: Centralize it
Q: What system was self sufficient A: Manor system Q: The RCC would play a role in the political and _____ lives of medieval Europe A: Social Q: Two major rivers in Mesopotamia A: Tigris and Euphrates Q: Purpose of the guilds A: Standardize goods and prices/protects workers Q: Inquisition A: Find heretics/persecute them
Q: Capetian monarchy ruled for A: 200 years Q: Converted to Christianity and helped brought Christianity to Europe/Franks unite and rise A: Clovis Q: Architecture/pointed/impression of height/ A: Gothic Q: Would provide unification and stability to Europe A: RCC Q: Religion that started as a movement against Hinduism A: Buddhism
Q: Collapse of the central authority (fall of Rome) would lead to the formation of A: Feudalism/system Q: First European explorer to sail to N. America before Columbus A: Leif Ericson Q: Europeans would demand goods from the Middle East as a result of A: The Crusades Q: Result of the conflict between the RCC and Germany A: Germany would be weak and disunited
Q: Portcullis A: Wooden grill/protect the gate Q: Major cultural development in the middle ages is that literature would start to be written in the A: Vernacular = common language Q: High church officials would come from what class A: Noble Q: Italy was governed by A: Local nobles/nobility
Q: English king who signed the Magna Carta A: John Q: Prior to the plague Europe went through A: Declining birth rates, overpopulation, climate change, famine Q: Spanish monarchs who were hostile to non- Christian religions A: Ferdinand and Isabella Q: Italian city-states (i.e. Venice) are going to grow because of the A: Crusades Q: Difference between Arab and Viking expansion A: Arabs = urban centers/Vikings = non-urban
Q: Germanic tribe that would settle Britain A: Saxons Q: King that expanded the borders (Scotland to Spain) A: Henry II Q: Lower production higher prices were a result of A: Plague Q: Two popes, nobody knows who the true pope was A: Great Schism Q: Hajj A: Pilgrimage to Mecca Q: Extreme ornamentation/stained glass told biblical stories/ larger cathedrals A: Gothic architecture
Q: Cultural influence of the Muslim empire in Spain A: Architecture Q: Aristarchus A: Astronomer/sun-centered the universe Q: Main entrance of the keep A: Forebuilding Q: Basis of the pope’s/RCC’s power A: Petrine Doctrine Q: Civilizations that arose from the Indus Valley A: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro