T09-10 Review

What impact did the Crusades have on Jews and Muslims in Europe?

• It freed Jews and Muslims from European persecution (harsh treatment).
• There was no impact.
• Jews and Muslims gained control of significant portions of Europe.
• Attacks on Jews and Muslims increased.

Rights in the US Constitution like the promise of due process and freedom of property come from

• the Magna Carta.
• Justinian's Code.
• Egyptian court documents.
• the Nicene Creed.

What did Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman emperor Henry IV disagree about?

• whether or not to call a crusade
• if Catholicism or Protestantism was more powerful
• who had the right to choose bishops
• if the emperor should be appointed or elected

What was the result of the first Crusade that ended in 1099?

• The Crusaders failed and returned to Europe.
• The Crusaders captured Jerusalem.
• The Byzantine empire was conquered by Roman Catholics.
• Muslims pushed further into Europe.

Why did kings become wealthy and more powerful politically following the Crusades?

• The Crusades increased the loyalty of nobles to their kings.
• The Crusades caused an increase in trade, which benefitted kings.
• The Crusades inspired the Church to encourage Christians to support their monarchs.
• Inspired by Muslim approaches to taxation, kings found a more effective way of collecting money from their people.

At its height, Muslim Spain attracted many

• foreign students who wanted to study philosophy, math, and medicine.
• popes and cardinals who wanted to introduce Muslim ideas to Christianity.
• other Muslim groups who wanted to use force to take the riches of the Spanish Muslims.
• cattle ranchers who wanted to graze their livestock on the Spanish plains.

During the Black Death, when surviving serfs asked for higher wages, how did manor lords respond?

• They drove the serfs from their lands and did all the work themselves.
• They immediately gave the serfs what they wanted because the manor lords were compassionate Christians.
• They immediately gave the serfs what they wanted because they were so desperate for workers.
• They passed laws that limited the movement and wages of serfs.

Jews settled in Italy, North Africa, the Ottoman empire, and Jerusalem, among other places, after being driven from __.

• the Iberian Peninsula
• Northern Ireland
• Brittany, France
• Greece

What was one way the Hundred Years’ War threatened the stability of medieval society?

• The Church couldn't decide which side to support.
• Neither country ever had strong leadership.
• Roaming armies destroyed crops, causing starvation.
• Captured soldiers were never ransomed, causing the economy to nearly collapse.

What was the Reconquista?

• The Christian movement to drive Muslims from Spain.
• The name for the multicultural societies of Muslim-controlled Spain.
• The movement to drive Jew, Christians, and other non-Muslims out of Spain.
• The combined effort of Muslim and Christian armies to fend off a violent invasion attempt by aliens from outer space.