Intro Medieval Church

The Church was ------ in medieval western Europe.

• center of life
• center of trade
• center of combat training
• center of science

Large towns had a ______ which would ring its bell to mark the hours, call people to worship, and warn people of danger.

• Cathedral
• Castle
• Monasteries
• Communitites

The "church building" was the center of community activity.  Which is NOT one of the activities held at the local church?

• Knights trained in jousts and melees
• Religious services and town meetings
• Merchants had shops in front of the church
• Peasants sold crops and held festivals

The Church provided...

• education for some and helped the poor and sick.
• trained knights for combat.
• kings with loans to build castles.
• nothing for the common peasant.

The Church was a part of your daily life from...

• birth to death.
• the time you turn twenty-one.
• the moment you learn how to read the Bible.
• the time you are born to the age of twenty-one.

Some historians refer to the Middle Ages as the...

• Age of Faith
• Dark Ages
• Modern Age
• Age of Reason

Which answer is FALSE about people's beliefs about world events.

• The Church could explain world events.
• Famine and storms were God's punishments.
• Prayer would keep disasters away
• Science could explain natural events.

The Church taught that ______, or the saving of one's soul, would only come through the Churches teachings.

• salvation

• excommunication

• heresy

• learning

After the fall of Rome the Church was one of the last institutions which stood for...

• law and order

• wealth

• power and control

• division and chaos

Most people believed if you did not follow the church you would...

• receive salvation

• be punished in the afterlife

• earn a lot of money

• not receive an education