Quiz - Late Medieval Europe

Why were the German Emperors fighting with the Popes over Italy?

• Dispute over trade routes in Italy
• Control of political and religious power in Italy
• Competition for control of Italian art
• Struggle for dominance in Italian cuisine

What did Pope Gregory VII claim the right to be able to do?

• Depose kings and emperors

• Invent a new language
• Control the weather
• Declare war on neighboring countries

Who did Pope Innocent III launch a crusade against?

• Protestants
• Albigensian

• Jews
• Muslims

What was the odds of catching the Black Death in Medieval Europe?

• 1 in 5 people

• 1 in 3 people

• 1 in 100 people

• Everyone caught it and died

What was the economic impact of the Black Death?

• Decreased wages and stable trade
• Increased labor and trade and decreased inflation

• Stable labor and decreased trade disruption
• Labor shortages, increased wages, disrupted trade, and inflation.

Black Death led to indirectly to a growth in the power of ____________and centralized states and the end of _____________

• Kings, Feudalism

• Nobles, Capitalism

• Peasants, Autocracy

• Knights, Feudalism

What led to the Second Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church?

• Disagreement over the use of Latin in church services
• Rivalries among Popes and cardinals on who should be the rightful pope between Avignon and Rome

• Conflict between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor over the construction of cathedrals
• Differences in opinion on the sacrament of baptism

Why was John Wycliffe seen as a heretic?

• He believed that Jesus never rose from the dead

• He criticized the Catholic belief in the afterlife

• He criticized the wealth and power of the Church and translated the Bible into English

• He supported the Church's authority and power

The 100 Year War was fought between what two countries?

• Russia and Poland
• Germany and Italy
• England and France
• Spain and Portugal

What was ONE of the effects of the Hundred Year War?

• Spread of democracy in Europe
• Increase in power of the Roman Empire
• Decline of feudalism and rise of nationalism
• Rise of the Ottoman Empire