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WorksheetsMedieval Miscellany
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 41mins
What are some other names for the Medieval Period? (Hint: Pick two answers!)
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance Period
The No Light Times
The Dark Ages
The Regency Era
Why is the medieval period sometimes called The Dark Ages?
The cultural advances of ancient Greece and Rome were lost and the common folk were not educated.
All the lights were out and it was always dark.
A massive meteor shower struck Earth
Who invented the Printing Press?
Thomas Sydenham
William Harvey
Johannes Gutenberg
Wilhelm Rontgen
What Northern Africa trade routes were very important?
The Silk Road
Trans-Sahara Trade Routes
The Sub-Sahara Subway System
Where in medieval Africa would you find the biologically important mineral Salt?
In the Northern areas of the Sahara desert
Along the border of Angola and Zambia
In the heart of Zimbabwe
Along the Niger River
What caused a reduction in population during 1347-1351?
Great Famine
Black Death/Plague
Jacquerie and the Peasants' Revolt
The fall of the Roman Empire
True or false? The Government took no responsibility for people during the Black Death
True
False
Who ran hospitals during the Medieval period?
Monks
Nuns
Nurses
Wise women
Who came up with the Theory of the Four Humours?
Hippocrates
Galen
Harvey
Vesalius
What was built during the High Middle Ages?
Temples and Walls
Skyscrapers and Castles
Cathedrals and Castles
Elementary Schools
Who was responsible for farming the fields on a manor?
knights
serfs
merchants
nobles
Which of the following is true about the Magna Carta?
It demanded that lord's provide military service to the king.
It demanded that King John be put to death
It contained 63 complaints by the barons and limited the power of the king.
It gave the king more money and power.
What was one affect of the Crusades?
Muslims took over and controlled all of Europe
Christian Crusaders became more powerful as a result of all the fighting
Crusaders were introduced to math, science, foods, and other knowledge that they brought back to Europe.
Everything went back to normal
What was the legacy of the Magna Carta?
a symbol of liberty around the world and influential to the US Bill of Rights
Nothing
demanding the death of all Kings in Europe
making peasants and slaves rich
A knight was someone who:
Volunteered to be in the military
A person of noble birth specifically trained for combat
The fittest athletes in the village
Was once a peasant
A knight's armour was...
Cheap, after all people could not afford much
Handed down from generation to generation
Very expensive as it had to be tailor made to fit the man
Didn't exist during Medieval times as it wasn't invented
As a thanks for their service, knights received:
Nothing
A horse
A holiday
Land
In order to teach young knights good balance they would...
Stand on their tippy toes for 30 minutes at a time
Practice fighting on piggyback
Have to use a balance beam
Balance wasn't important
Noble sons who were going to train as knights were sent to:
The equivalent of "Knight School"
To fend for themselves in the forest
To live with a lord where they would train as a knight
Stay home to help their family
All boys who reached the stage of a squire would become a knight.
True
False
The word chivalry is a French word for Knight.
True
False
Spiral staircases were invented to:
Make the castle look more grand
Make it more difficult for fighting knights to get upstairs
Make people dizzy
They were never in castles
What is a katana?
A sword
A mace
A spear
A dagger
What did medieval Spaniards call a Muslim person?
Muslim
Spanard
Moor
Viking
Medieval music was all religious.
True
False
A drone is a long held note.
True
False
A drone is a repeated pattern.
True
False
An ostinato is a repeated pattern.
True
False
Most religious Medieval music was sung in Latin.
True
False
