Church and Society in Western Europe

Who started the First Crusade by giving a speech urging church leaders and the people to expel Muslim invaders from the Byzantine Empire?

• Urban II

• Louis XIV

• Richard the Lionheart

• Saladin the Magnificent

In order to call people to arms, Pope Urban II appealed to people's Christian religion, need for salvation, and what else?

• He pointed out that the Holy Land was very wealthy and ripe for the taking

• He pointed out that the summers were nicer

This practice involved kings appointing and installing bishops with spiritual authority.

• simony

• excommunication

• lay investiture

• heresy

What do you call the set of laws based on the beliefs of the Church?

• Canon Laws

• Heresy

• Law of the Twelve Tables

• Excommunication

Excommunication is

• banishment from the Church

• when many sacraments and religious ceremonies cannot be performed in the entire country.

• religious officials

• a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials

An interdict is

• banishment from the Church

• when many sacraments and religious ceremonies cannot be performed in the entire country.

• religious officials

• a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials

The scholar who argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by sound reasoning

• Urban II

• Saladin

• Henry II

• Thomas Aquinas

What was the primary role of monasteries in medieval Western Europe?

• A) Centers of trade and commerce

• B) Military training grounds

• C) Centers of learning and preservation of knowledge

• D) Political headquarters

Which of the following was a major effect of the Black Death on the Church in Western Europe?

• A) Strengthened the Church's influence

• B) Led to a decline in the Church's power

• C) Increased the number of clergy

• D) Unified the Church and state

What was the Investiture Controversy primarily about?

• A) The right to appoint bishops

• B) The translation of the Bible

• C) The construction of cathedrals

• D) The Crusades