WorksheetsUnit 5 Test
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
- Magna Carta (1215)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
These documents are similar in that each established a system in which...?
The power of the government leader came directly from God.
The lawmaking process was controlled by religious leaders.
Rulers were responsible to the people they governed
An Individual was granted freedom from taxation.
- Europe's largest landowner
- Claimed God's will on Earth
- The main source of learning is Western Europe
Which best titles the list above?
Holy Roman Emperor
Catholic Church
Byzantine Emperor
King of the Franks
Which statement best describes society under the influence of medieval Christianity?
Religion played a major role only in the lives of priests
Religion permitted the freedom to choose how people worshipped
Religion was a way of life that ruled people from birth to death
Religion influences society by stressing the equality of all religions
In Western Europe, feudalism developed after....?
Repeated invasions caused instability
The Renaissance started
Mongols invaded
Constantinople fell to the Turks/Ottoman Empire.
Which conclusion can be researched from the events on this timeline?
The interactions of people through trade spread the plague
the plague started in Western Europe
the plague primarily affected the people of China
Port cities were relatively untouched by the plague
This diagram represents the major political and social characteristics of the....?
Rule of the pharaohs in Egypt
hierarchical system of China
Mayan civilizations in Mexico
Feudal system in Western Europe
In the feudal system, what was a manor?
A right to use the land
A lord's estate
An obligation to provide protection
A customary way of doing things
After the Great Schism, what major difference separated the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic faiths?
No icons were allowed in Catholic Church services
The Bible was disputed as the word of God by the West
The open confessions of sins fell into disuse in the West.
The Pope was recognized by the Catholics as their leader.
This picture below illustrates which type of Middle Ages artistic ideal?
Islamic Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Renaissance Architecture
Hellenistic Architecture
“Come then, with all your people and give battle with all your strength, so that all this treasure shall not fall into the hands of the Turks…. Therefore act while there is still time lest the kingdom of the Christians shall vanish from your sight….”
-Emperor Comnenus, The Dream and the Tomb
What event is referred to in this quotation?
Crusades
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Glorious Revolution
“The monk Hildebrand chose himself a commander and arrayed an army - a thing forbidden by St. Peter - to invade the kingdom. He then returned to Rome, called a council and once again summoned judgement of the king...”
The quote above demonstrated what about the Medieval Catholic church?
The growing religious power of Eastern Orthodoxy
The church's loss of political authority
The church's economic power
The growing Political Power of the Church
Why did the Black Death lead to a sharp decline in public works, such as building cathedrals?
European governments lacked popular support for building
People abandoned religion because they felt helpless from disease
Most cathedrals were destroyed due to social chaos
The high death toll led to massive labor short
“IT IS ACCORDINGLY OUR WISH AND COMMAND that the English Church shall be free, and that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably in their fullness and entirety for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever.”- Manga Carta
Based on the excerpt from the Magna Carta, it guaranteed...
A model parliament
Basic women's rights
Basic legal rights
The end of taxation
Which of the following best describes how the Crusades contributed to the end of medieval Europe?
Europeans from different lands proved unable to cooperate.
Europeans leaving their homelands were introduced to new ideas and products-which expanded their trade and learning.
European rulers surrendered their authority to the Pope.
Muslims in Spain attacked Europe from the west and the Crusaders marched to the east.
The Magna Carta was important to the development of democracy because it did which of the following?
Limited the power of the monarch
Took land away from the nobles
Created a bicameral legislature
Extended the right to vote to serfs
The photograph above shows the home of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church?
Crystal Palace
Kremlin
Tower of London
Vatican
"The Peace of God declared that feudal warfare could not take place on church property, and it promised sanctuary in churches and abbeys to fugitives from combat. The Truce of God forbade fighting…during the religious seasons of Christmas and Lent.”
The main idea of this passage is that…?
The Church limited where and when Christians could fight.
Landlords determined when warfare took place.
Religion was dictated by custom and feudal law.
War was restricted to fighting only on religious holidays.
“For this cause we pray your clemency to oppose such disturbances with the Truth, and to order the Faith of the catholic religion to be preserved without spot...and that by the present example schisms be not advanced either between the bishops or the most holy churches.”- Pope Leo IX
What even is the Pope speaking of in the quote above?
England and France failing to benefit from Renaissance culture
England establishing permanent control over much of France
The Black Death spreading from France to England
The split between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
Most economic activities on this feudal manor were related to which of the following?
banking
guilds
agriculture
industry
- Large estates that met all of the needs of those living on the estate
- Farmers gave service to powerful landowners in exchange for protection
- Each estate had cottages, barns, fields, and often a church and castle
These characteristics above describe the
Trading outposts along the Silk Road.
Division of authority and wealth in Hindu India.
Manorial system of Western Europe in the Middle Ages.
Properties of leading warriors under Alexander the Great.
“When the Ottomans had had enough of murder, and the City was reduced to slavery, some of the troops turned to the mansions of the mighty, by bands and companies and divisions, for plunder and spoil. Others went to the robbing of churches, and others dispersed to the simple homes of the common people, stealing, robbing, plundering, killing, insulting, taking and enslaving men, women, and children, old and young, priests, monks – in short, every age and class.”
Based on the account of Constantinople’s sacking, how did the Byzantine Empire fall?
The political ambitions of neighboring people.
The decline of regional trade routes
Its policy of continued expansion.
Invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- Desire to be Released from Feudal Obligations
- Desire for wealth from the Middle East
- Forgiveness of sins
- Defense of the Holy Land
What title best completes the list above?
Reasons for the Reformation
Causes of the Fall of Rome
European Motives for the Crusades
Reasons for the Great Schism
What renowned church was built by Emperor Justinian?
Canterbury Cathedral
Notre Dame
St. Peter’s Basilica
Hagia Sophia
“...the light of reason is placed by nature [and thus by God] in every man to guide him in his acts.” -Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas demonstrated which medieval belief in the quote above?
Man should not look to God for reason
God is the light of reason in every mind
Women are the inferior sex
Reason tells us what is good and what is evil
Which institution served as the main unifying force of medieval Western Europe?
legislature
monarchy
military
church
"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent."- Justinian
Why was Justinian’s Law Code so important?
It was the first law code developed.
It became the foundation for Western legal tradition.
It first summarized an “eye for an eye” style of justice.
It mixed Egyptian and Western tradition into one law code.
