Middle Ages Timeline

Match the following

• Invention of Gutenberg Press

• happened third

• Normans in England

• happened fourth

• Black Death (Bubonic Plague)

• Happened second

• Fall of Rome

• Happened first

• Charlemagne's Conquests

• happened last

How is the fall of the Western Roman World viewed in a historical context?

• As the end of the Middle Ages.

• As the catalyst (or cause) for the dawn of the Middle Ages.

• As the beginning of the Renaissance.

• As the start of the Enlightenment.

What was one of Charlemagne's significant contributions to religion?

• Spread of Protestantism

• Spread of Catholicism

• Spread of Buddhism

• Spread of Islam

The Normans were originally from which part of Europe?

• Southern Europe (Spain)

• Eastern Europe (Russia)

• Northern Europe (Scandanavia)

• Western Europe (Portugal)

Which city was the focus of the First Crusade?

• Constantinople

• Rome

• Jerusalem

• Alexandria

What was the significance of the Bubonic Plague in the Late Middle Ages?

• It led to the discovery of new continents.

• It resulted in the death of about 1/3 of the European population.

• It caused the Industrial Revolution.

• It was the beginning of the Renaissance.

What was the significance of the Hundred Years' War?

• It marked the first major event where European nation-states went to war.

• It was the longest war in history.

• It led to the unification of Europe.

• It was a war between France and Germany.

What was the "Great Schism" a split between?

• Christians and Jews

• Catholics in the west, Orthodox Christians in the east

• Muslims and Jews

• Catholics and Protestants

When Constantinople "fell", what did it cease being and what did it become?

• A major city became a barren desert.

• The center of Christian European trade became the a city where no trade was allowed.

• The capital of the eastern Christian Church became a Muslim city.

• The capital of Rome became the Capital of Turkey.

The digital world (internet, etc.) transformed modern society. What "new" communications device transformed the world when it was created during the Middle Ages?

• The guillotine (death machine for executions)

• The telephone

• The invention of writing

• The Gutenberg Press