Middle Ages Review

What is the definition of clergy?

• political system based on bonds of loyalty

• religious leaders

• medieval business group

• lawmaking body in England

Who was Saladin?

• Frankish leader who stopped the Muslim advance into Europe?

• German king who became the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire

• ruler who united the lands of Spain into a Catholic country

• ruler of Egypt who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians

What was the Reconquista?

• struggle to take back the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims

• document stating the government should be limited

• a war to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims

• religious belief that conflicts with church teachings

What religion spread quickly in China because it taught that people could escape from their suffering?

• Islam

• Christianity

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

Under _______, landowning nobles governed and protected the people in return for services.

• Vassalism

• Feudalism

• Manorialism

• Protectionism

Which of the following is not an improvement that the Tang Dynasty made to China?

• created civil service exams

• regained its power in Europe

• strengthened its military

• added more officials to government

France and _________ fought in the Hundred Years War.

• England

• China

• Portugal

• Spain

Originating in Central Asia, the Black Death was carried by what?

• Cattle

• Fleas

• Spiders

• Ants

What effect did King John signing the Magna Carta have on life and politics in England?

• It limited the king's power

• It started the first democracy

• It joined England and France together as one country

• It gave more power to the king

From 1347 to 1351, the Black Death:

• had no effect on Europe

• strengthened feudalism

• reduced Europe's population by a third

• stayed confined to western Europe