High and Late Middle Ages

Why did Pope Urban II call Christians to go on a Crusade?

• to win back the Roman Empire

• to win back the Holy Land

• to conquer the Byzantines

• to conquer the Muslims in Spain

Where were there many ports that traded with the East?

• Germany

• England

• Italy

• Spain

In what areas of culture and learning did Muslims make great advances?

• history and philosophy

• history and portrait painting

• mathematics and medicine

• medicine and portrait painting

What led to increased trade between Europe and Asia?

• the Black Death

• the Crusades

• the Hundred Years' War

• the Reconquista

What was the long-term effect of the Magna Carta?

• a weakening of the power of feudal lords

• the surrender of French territory to English rule

• the rise of strong trading cities

• the development of more democratic government

Habeas Corpus

• protected people from knights

• protected people from being kept in jail without a reason

• protected people from the manoral system

• protected people from the Pope

King Henry III was replaced by a group of representatives, later known as

• habeas corpus

• buboes

• Parliament

• Magna Carta

Parliament was broken up into the following two houses

• House of Lords and House of Commons

• English Common Law and Bill of Rights

• Senate and House of Representatives

• House of Rights and English Representatives

The Plague took the lives of _______ of the population in Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

• about 1/2

• about 1/4

• about 1/3

• none

Researchers believe that the disease came from trade ships from _______, on flea-infested _______.

• Asia, rats

• Africa, rats

• Asia, bats

• Africa, bats