Artifacts of Western Civilization - Middle-Ages to Napoleon

This script, introduced on a wide scale during the reign of Charlemagne, is commonly known as (a)   minuscule.

One of the major advantages of this script over its predecessors was that it

• Included new characters to represent sounds common to Germanic languages

• Contained a wide variety of punctuation marks that made writing more nuanced

• Contained both capital and lower case letters, as well as simple punctuation

• None of the other options is correct

This is a reliquary said to contain a portion of the __________ of the emperor it portrays.

• Wealth

• Soul

• Skull

• Heart

• Last will and testament

Of which famous Emperor is this a representation?

(a)  

This reliquary is currently housed in a famous cathedral commissioned by this emperor in his capital city. To see it you have to visit _________ Cathedral.

• Notre Dame

• Paris

• London

• Aachen

• Rome

This is part of the famous __________ Tapestry.

• Bayeux

• Norman

• Saxon

• Saxomachy

This tapestry depicts the conquest of England by which famous person?

(a)  

The unfortunate fellow taking an arrow through the eye in this picture is likely ...

• Willam the Conqueror

• Æthelred the Unready

• Harold Godwinson

• Harold Hardrada

This tapestry depicts the famous Battle of (a)  

This is the Cathedral of (a)