Quiz 2.5: The Late Middle Ages

When the pope excludes a person from church membership and states they are not going to heaven it is called what?

• Execute
• Domes Day Book
• Excommunicate
• Exonerate

What is the political and social order where nobles govern and protect people in exchange for services such as farming the nobles land or fighting in the nobles army?

• Feudalism
• Monarchy
• Representative Assemblies
• Excommunication

What King was forced to put his seal on the Magna Carta?

• King William the Conqueror
• King Henry II
• King Harold Godwinson
• King John

What event in the early 1300s opened the door for the Black Death to be extremely deadly because people's immune systems were weak?

• The Papal Schism
• The Crusades
• A great famine
• Feudalism

What region did the Black Death first hit?

• Europe
• Africa
• India
• Asia

How is trade connected to the spread of the plague?

• The plague was carried by bugs in the spices carried from India spreading it to Europeans
• Communities that were once isolated had traders coming into their towns spreading the plague
• Muslim traders wanted Christians to be killed so they intentionally spread the plague in trading cities
• The plague only affected traders for an unknown reason so the only way a person could be infected was by a merchant or trader

CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: Which of the following ways did the Black Death impact the economy?

• Trade declined
• People no longer used gold for trade
• Workers Wages increased
• Many workers moved to the Americas to escape the plague

What were two ways that people responded to the Black Death when they believed it was God punishing the Earth?

• They saved money

• They trusted in their lords and ladies

• They Partied and did not save for the future

• They became flagellants

  
  

What trade networked connected Asia to Europe and North Africa and was a major part of the spread of the Black Death?

• The Great Road
• The Silk Road
• The Golden Road
• The Spice Road

Why could workers demand more rights and pay after the Black Death?

• Workers became more scarce so they were more valuable
• The workers that survived were smarter and better workers
• The nobles that survived had more money to spend on workers
• Nobles wanted to make God happy so they paid workers huge amounts to build churches