19-3 "Kingdoms & Crusades"

Who united the Anglo-Saxons, creating a kingdom known as England?

• Alfred of Wessex

• Charlemagne

King Henry II established ______, which helped create laws that were the same throughout the whole kingdom.

• a court system

• Parliament

The growth of Parliament under Edward I marked an important step toward ______.

• a court of law

• representative government

Who gave the rulers of Moscow the authority to collect taxes and take control of nearby lands?

• the Mongols

• Charlemagne

In 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade, or holy war, to be launched against ______.

• the Muslim Turks

• the Mongols

Which was a lasting negative effect of the Crusades?

• They caused bitter feelings between Christian Europe and the Islamic world.

• They kept Europeans from cultured Byzantines and Muslims.

The Magna Carta established the idea that people should have rights and that the power of government should be limited.

• True
• False

The French Estates-General eventually became more powerful than the king himself.

• True
• False

After the Kievan Rus ruler Vladimir married the sister of the Byzantine emperor, he declared that his people were ______.

• Russians

• Eastern Orthodox

The Crusades were an overwhelming success for the armies of Western Europe.

• True
• False