Empires Practice Quiz (H)

What was life like after the fall of the Roman Empire?

• It was much more insecure and people became more rural

• It was more secure and people moved to urban areas

• Very little changed, people spoken Latin languages and converted to Islam

• All of the Above are correct

The Fall of the Roman Empire resulted

in...

• Europe breaking up into smaller non-

  unified regions.

• The Christian church being taken over

  by Muslims.

• People forgetting how to speak latin.

• The poor gaining more power and

  authority over the rich.

After the fall of Rome, where did the Visigoths settle?

• Northwest Iberian Peninsula

• Iberian Peninsula and parts of France

• Northern coasts of Africa

• The Italian Peninsula

Europe became a feudal society because

• skilled craftspeople had emerged as farming techniques improved.

• the rarity of cash required land to be used as a payment for services.

• overpopulation required that a more efficient agricultural system be developed.

• Europeans needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.

The Manor System was based upon

• performing services in exchange for protection

• trade among villagers

• farming

• herding and weaving

The Christian effort to retake Spain from the Muslims was

• the Reconquista

• part of the Peasant Crusade

• led by the Hanseatic League

• the Inquisition

What are the power levels of the Feudal pyramid? Most powerful first.

• kings, serfs, knights, pope, lords/nobles

• serfs, knights, lords/nobles, kings, pope

• knights, kings, pope, lords/nobles, serfs

• pope, kings, lords/nobles, knights, serfs

The event that began the Middle Ages was the________

• fall of Rome

• death of Julius Caesar

• birth of Christ

• invention of the printing press

church court that searched for suspected heretics and put them on trial for heresy

• tithe

• Charlemagne

• Inquisition

• Magna Carta

• pilgrimage

group that made up the largest part of the population in feudal society and were legally tied to the manor

• knights

• fief

• peasants/serfs

• tithe

• Magna Carta