Middle Ages & Renaissance

Put the social classes in the correct order from highest to lowest.

• Lords

• King/Queen

• Knight/Vassal

• Peasants/Serfs

The Renaissance was ​ ​ (a)  

• a period of relearning about Greece & Rome
• a period of time when learning in China
• a period when people died because of plagues
• a time when all knowledge was lost

This city is part of the holy land, important to all 3 monotheistic religions, and was the main focus of the Crusades.

• Mecca

• Jerusalem

• Cairo

• Babylon

The name of the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation was the ​ (a)  

• Counter Reformation
• Catholic Reformation
• Religious Reformation
• Renaissance Reformation
• Martin Luther's Reformation

How did trade influence economic growth during the Middle Ages?

• The poor could buy their own land

• Noblemen left their towns and opened new businesses

• The king decreased rents paid to the lords of towns

• Towns were able to expand and increase their wealth

Benefits of Feudalism for Nobility:​ ​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)  

• steady supply of workers
• could focus defense on specific areas
• military protection
• they could disobey laws of the ruler
• land to grow crops
• make treaties with foreign kings

Benefits of Feudalism for Peasants​ (a)   ​ (b)  

• military protection
• land to grow crops
• disobey laws of the ruler
• steady supply of workers
• focus of defending a specific area
• make treaties with foreign kings

Which statement gives a reason why the invention of the printing press was so important?

• Wealthy families began to support writers

• Scholars published new theories

• Merchants switched to paper money

• It enabled the production of books in large quantities

Renaissance art and architecture was influenced by ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   , & ​ (c)   ​

• Greece
• Rome
• the Church
• Mesopotamia
• India
• China
• the government

Two reasons why Prince Henry of Portugal was nicknamed "the Navigator"​ (a)   ​ (b)  

• He encouraged exploration
• He started navigation schools
• He had the strongest ships in the world
• Was the 1st to sail around the tip of Africa
• He really liked compasses