Middle ages

What was the main reason that Constantinople was a good location for the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

• It was protected from invaders by the mountains of Asia Minor and the Balkans.

• It was located at a crossroads for trade between Asia and Europe.

• It was near the mouth of some of the region's greatest rivers.

• It was close to the many islands that dot the Aegean Sea.

What is the best example of the code of chivalry?

• A knight uses a weapon hidden in his boot to gain an advantage over his opponent

• A peasant steals a chicken from a lord to feed his family

• A knight rescues a peasant family from a fire.

• A knight requires a commoner to go with him into battle.

This excerpt about medieval Christianity is specifically describing the nature of . . .

. . . extended over a whole town or diocese or district or country, and involved the innocent with the guilty. It was a suspension of religion in public exercise, including even the rites of marriage and burial. . .

• an excommunication.

• Benedictine Rule.

• an interdict.

• canon law.

A positive outcome of the Crusades was that it . . .

• marked the resolution of hostility among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

• moved Europe from bartering toward a money-based economy.

• moved Western European nations from monarchies to democracies.

• created a bond between the Roman and Byzantine churches.

What inference can be drawn from this statement from a Crusader seeing Constantinople for the first time?

"[T)hose who had never seen Constantinople opened wide eyes now; for they could not believe that so rich a city could be in the whole world, when they saw her lofty walls and her stately towers wherewith she was encompassed, and these stately palaces and lofty churches, so many in number as no man might believe who had not seen them, and the length and breadth of this town which was sovereign over all others."—Villehardouin, a French Crusader

• Cities in Europe were as wealthy and grand as Constantinople.

• Constantinople was wealthy but lacked refinement and beauty.

• Constantinople was beautiful but lacked religious zeal.

• Cities in Europe were less wealthy and grand than Constantinople.

From which of these is this excerpt most likely taken?

Here is subscribed the inquisition of lands as the barons of the king have made inquiry into them; that is to say by the oath of the sheriff of the shire, and of all the barons and their Frenchmen, and the whole hundred, the priests, reeves, and six villains of each manor; then, what the manor is called, who held it in the time of king Edward, who holds now . . .

• The City of Ladies

• Poem of the Cid

• The Domesday Book

• Song of Roland

King Henry II is said to have shouted the following about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, inadvertently leading to Becket's murder. Why did Henry call Becket a "meddlesome priest"?

"What cowards I have brought up in my court. Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"—King Henry II, 1170

• Becket disagreed with Henry's decision to send out traveling justices to enforce royal law.

• Becket disagreed with Henry's efforts to collect groups of men to serve on early juries.

• Becket disagreed with Henry's decision to use the Domesday Book as a basis for taxation.

• Becket disagreed with Henry's efforts to extend royal power over the Church.

What is the best paraphrase of the main idea of this quotation from the scholastic Thomas Aquinas?

"Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God."—Summa Theologica

• God's universe is orderly and predictable.

• People should use reason to discover basic truths.

• People should use faith to discover basic truths.

• The universe is filled with contradictions.

The education of an average child during the Middle Ages centered on basic religious knowledge. What does this imply about the values of medieval society?

• Basic literacy skills, taught through religion, were at the core of medieval society.

• Religion was at the core of medieval society.

• Civic rights and duties were at the core of medieval society.

• Science and mathematics were at the core of medieval society.

What was the significance of the emergence of a vernacular language in medieval Europe?

• It suggested a renewed interest in the work of Christian scholars.

• It suggested a new interest in Muslim and Jewish scholarship.

• It suggested a new interest in ordinary people and the stories that entertained and educated them.

• It suggested a renewed interest in the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans.