Review 6.3

What was the turning point in history that caused the Europeans to create the feudal system?

• As a way to protect everyone after the Fall of Rome

• As a way to accumulate wealth (make money)

• As a way to ensure political and economic stability

• It provided opportunities for people to become king.

What was the economic system (way people survived and made money) during the Middle Ages?

• feudalism

• the manor system

• Crusades

• Protestant Reformation

Which statement is reflected in the image?

• The feudal manor was self-sufficient.

• The feudal manor suffered from inflation (lessoning of the value of the dollar).

• The feudal manor does not help itself.

• The feudal manor had a lot of competition.

The diagram represents a society based on...

• Social class

• Educational achievement

• Accumulated wealth

• Political ability

This hierarchy supports the idea that the European feudal system was...

• Designed to promote political and economic equality.

• Controlled by the powerful knights.

• Intended to provide opportunities for people to become king.

• Supported by the labor (work) of the peasants.

What was the most influential during the Middle Ages?

• Protestant Reformation

• Monarchy

• Catholic Church

• Knighthood

What was an effect of Muhammad’s death?

• Chinese trade carried Islamic belief to West Africa.

• Islam spread beyond the Middle East to other areas around the world.

• Islam began in West Africa and spread to the Middle East.

• Europeans encouraged Islamic beliefs during the colonial period.

What is a similarity between the Abbasid and Umayyad Islamic empires?

• They both fought wars with the Aztec people.

• They both controlled trade within the American colonies.

• They both created an Islamic Golden Age.

• They both traveled to the Americas.

Why was Constantinople successful?

• Size of Constantinople did not allow it to trade.

• Cities of western Europe were more impressive than Constantinople.

• Location of Constantinople

  - center of trade -contributed to its success and prosperity (making money)

• The government of Constantinople did not provide safety and order for its people.

Which of the following would be a potential {possible} effect of Constantinople’s success?

• Rival empires fought for control of Constantinople.

• Constantinople was not part of a large empire.

• Constantinople was not affected by the spread of disease.

• Scholars left Constantinople for other Mediterranean cities.