The Role of Women in the Year 1000: A Webquest

In the year 1000, Christian Europe was hardly experiencing a "golden age." All classes lived uncomfortably in rude, unsanitary ________.

• houses

• palaces

• gardens

• castles

All faced recurrent ________ often caused by poorly tilled lands, and disease often caused by polluted water, tainted foods and unsanitary living.

• diseases

• floods

• droughts

• famines

In general women were not held in high ________ and had few rights.

• esteem

• regard

• value

• honor

Since women's ________ was questioned, their education was limited to learning the skills needed at home.

• intelligence

• rights

• freedom

• status

An exception was ________, a doctor educated in Europe's first university at Salerno, Italy.

• a physician
• a scholar
• Trotula

• a philosopher

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_______ women had more rights than other woman.A noble woman could be installed as ________ in a convent.

• abbess

• Aristocratic and abbess

• bishop

• deacon

In convents women had a chance to develop an ________ life, as did Hroswitha of the Abbey of Gandersheim.

• intellectual

• spiritual

• domestic

• social

Sometimes, although rarely, a woman managed to achieve the ________ normally granted to powerful males. One was Adelaide, empress of the Ottonian empire.

• power normally granted to powerful males

• wealth normally granted to powerful males

• titles normally granted to powerful males

• respect normally granted to powerful males

In 1000, The World of Islam was wide and dispersed, spreading from the palaces of ________ across North Africa, and from the Middle East to the Arabian Sea and Indus Valley.

• the palaces of

• Baghdad

• Cairo

• Cordoba

In contrast to Europe, it was a world where math, ________, philosophy and the arts were encouraged and flourished.

• science

• literature

• history

• geography