1. Which of the following came first? Charlemagne’s empire The Dark Age The fall of Rome The Crusades Answer: The fall of Rome

2. What do the following have in common? DenmarkNorwaySwedenFinland Answer: Scandinavian Countries, from which the Vikings come.

3. What is the holy city of the Islamic religion? JerusalemMeccaMakkahConstantinople Answer: Mecca or Makkah

4. Which of the following is best associated with the Orthodox religion? PopePriestArchbishopPatriarch Answer: Patriarch

5. What do the following things have in common? DietEstates-GeneralParliamentCongress Answer: governmental groups that represent the people.

6. The Byzantine Empire used to be called the: Eastern half of the Roman Empire Western half of the Roman Empire Charlemagne’s Empire Alfred the Great’s Empire Answer: Eastern half of the Roman Empire

7. He defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 1732. ClovisCharlemagne Charles “the Hammer” Martel Julius Caesar Answer: Charles “the Hammer” Martel

8. What do the following things have in common? Trade stops Travel is dangerous Cities and towns are in ruin Education stops Answer: Signs of a Dark Age

9. Power in feudal Europe came from: Money and Gold Religious influence Land ownership Military success and skill Answer: Land ownership

10. Being removed from the Catholic Church against your will is: Being excommunicated Being orthodoxed Being made a peasant Being part of the inquisition Answer: Being excommunicated

11. What do the following things have in common? An interest in classical writing A desire to learn An interest in art An interest in Ancient Greece and Rome Answer: The Renaissance

12. Put the following steps of becoming a Knight in the correct order. Dubbing ceremony PageSquireSerf Answer: Page, Squire, and Dubbing. Being a Serf means you cannot be a knight.

13. The word crusade best means which of the following in world history: A rebellion of serfs to land owners. A fight among peasants of equal rank. A holy war to free the Holy Land. A fight for women’s rights. Answer: A holy war to free the Holy Land.

14. What do the following things have in common? Limit the authority of the king to tax. Give power to the nobles from the king. Right to a trial by a jury of peers. The king is not above the law. Answer: The Magna Carta

15. Which of the following reforms did Henry II make in England? He began Parliament to help him make laws. He signed the Magna Carta in 1215. He conquered England in 1066. He created circuit judges, grand and trial juries. Answer: Circuit judges, grand and trial juries.

16. Feudalism depended upon the relationship of: Religion and service Service and protection Protection and religion Land ownership and protection Answer: Service and protection

17. What do the following have in common? Re-organized Roman law and made it simpler. Put down a rebellion over high taxes. Tried to re-unite parts of the Roman Empire. Built churches such as Hagia Sophia. Answer: Emperor Justinian

18. Put the following things in correct order beginning with the oldest. The Crusades The Renaissance The Neolithic Revolution The Rise of Feudalism Answer: Neolithic Revolution, Rise of Feudalism, the Crusades, and the Renaissance.

19. One of the earliest trading ports for Italy was: RomeVeniceFlandersConstantinople Answer: Venice

20. What do the following things have in common KoranTorahBible Old Testament Answer: Holy books for monotheistic religions

21. What was Clovis the first to do? First Frankish king to convert to Christianity First Frankish king to defeat the Muslims. First Frankish king to begin Feudalism. First Frankish king to end the Dark Age. Answer: First to convert to Christianity

22. Which is a common ancestor for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? MuhammadJesus Constantine I Abraham Answer: Abraham

23. What do the following things have in common? John Calvin Anglican Church Martin Luther Protest Answer: The Protestant Reformation

24. Who was the best known ruler of the Byzantine Empire? Julius Caesar CharlemagneJustinian Alexander the Great Answer: Justinian

25. Which of the following relationships is correct? The Patriarch leads the Protestant Church Muhammad began Judaism. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church Jesus is a savior to Jews Answer: Pope heads the Catholic Church

26. What do the following things have in common? Trade with the middle and far east improves. New trade routes are discovered. Learning and knowledge from the middle east is taken to western Europe. Castles are improved in western Europe. Answer: Effects of the Crusades.

27. When Muslims pray they face which city and what holy shrine? Jerusalem and the rock of David. Mecca and the Kaaba. Constantinople and Hagia Sophia. Rome and the Vatican. Answer: Mecca and the Kaaba.

28. What do the following have in common? SerfsVassalsNoblesClergy Answer: Relationships in Feudalism

30. Who was the first leader to try and fight the Dark Age with education? Charlemagne Julius Caesar Clovis Alfred the Great Answer: Charlemagne

31. Which of the following does Christianity and Islam have in common? Belief in Jesus as the messiah. Belief in the New Testament as God’s word. Belief in the concept of Heaven and Hell. Belief in Muhammad as a prophet of God. Answer: Belief in the concept of Heaven and Hell.

32. What do the following have in common? Helped fuel the Renaissance. Led to more reading. Made books easier for people to own. Had moveable type. Answer: The Printing Press

33. What was the code of Justinian? A way for people to behave in Constantinople. A re-invention of Greek democracy. A re-organization of Roman law. A new legal system developed by Justinian. Answer: A re-organization of Roman law.

34. Which of the following brought more democracy to people? Magna Carta Feudalism Byzantine Empire Charlemagne Answer: Magna Carta

35. What do the following things have in common? Bosporus Strait VeniceFlandersPeninsula Answer: Strategic geographic locations

36. Which of the following does not go with the other three? JudaismIslamMonotheismPolytheism Answer: Polytheism

37. What do the following things have in common? Show respect for women of noble birth. Show bravery. Honor the church. Obey the noble. Answer: The Code of Chivalry knights were to follow.

38. This was the place that Monks lived and worked. MonasteryConventAbbeyTemple Answer: Monastery

39. Crowded towns led to the spread of: Disease such as the Black Death Feudalism Trade guilds Democracy Answer: Disease such as the Black Death

40. Joan of Arc is best associated with: The Battle of Tours to free France. The Battle of Orleans to free France. The Battle of Hastings to conquer England. The Battle of Normandy to free France. Answer: The Battle of Orleans – 100 Years’ War between France and England.

41. Why was the Renaissance able to begin in Italy? Italy had more artists than the rest of Europe. Italy had more wealth from trade. The Catholic Church was centered in Italy. The Italian landscape was the best to paint. Answer: Italy had more wealth from trade – Venice and other city-states had grown rich.

42. Which of the following terms does not go with the other three? Reformation New Birth HuguenotLutheran Answer: New Birth – the other terms go with the Protestant Reformation

43. Which of the following does not go with the other three? King Henry VIII John Calvin Philip II of Spain Martin Luther Answer: Philip II of Spain – the other three all helped reform the church.

44. What do the following things all have in common? The desire for a son to become heir to the throne. Divorce of his wives. The beginning of the Anglican Church. A political dispute with the Pope. Answer: Henry VIII as king of England did these things.

45. Which of the following is a key aspect of the Christian faith? Jesus is a great prophet of God. Jesus was the messiah or savior. Jesus’ life and teachings are in the Old Testament. Jesus was to overthrow Roman government. Answer: Jesus was the messiah or savior – his death and resurrection prove this to Christians.

46. Which was a major reason the Vikings left their homeland? They wanted land more suitable for farming. The were in search of adventure. They wanted to conquer new lands. They wanted to trade with the Middle East. Answer: They wanted land more suitable for farming – their climate was cold and land rocky.

47. What do the following things have in common? SugarSpicesDyeSilk Answer: They are all things the western Europeans traded for because of the Crusades.

48. What do the following things have in common? MichelangeloGalileoCopernicus Da Vinci Answer: They are all important Renaissance men.

49. What was the primary purpose of a guild? To treat workers in the same craft fairly. To provide workers with democratic rights. To give workers a say in the government. To help workers become world-wide traders. Answer: To treat workers of the same craft fairly or equally. Guilds are ancestors of labor unions.

50. What do the following things have in common? Documents that allowed towns to rule themselves. Established councils that could tax people. Created courts to enforce laws. Used tax money to repair roads, build hospitals and serve the people. Answer: Charters gave these democratic reforms to towns in the late middle ages.

51. What were icons? The name of moveable type. Pictures or symbols of religious importance. The name of guilds in the late middle ages. Ideas that helped begin the Italian Renaissance. Answer: Pictures or symbols of religious importance – used by the Catholic Church; led to the break with the Orthodox Church