WorksheetsUnit 8: Medieval Europe
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 18mins
The city of Jerusalem is important to what three major religions?
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam
Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
Why did people join in fighting in the Crusades?
They thought it would help them practice their fighting skills.
They thought it would help them get rich.
They thought it would help them get into heaven.
All of these answers
What religious leader from the Catholic Church helped to organize the First Crusade?
Stephen Harding
Pope Urban II
Saint Benedict
Who worked the land and was often treated unfairly under the feudal system?
knight
king
peasant
noble
religious officials
In the feudal system, which group had the most power?
Monarchs
Nobles
Knights
The Pope/Church
The Fall of the Roman Empire caused which of the following:
made people move back to the cities
help trade increase with no Emperor
help start an education boom
made people move to the country
The Black Plague was thought to be brought to Western Europe through the —
trade routes
Crusades
Mongol invasions
Viking raids
Because of the Black Death —
people entered into feudal agreements for protection.
Africa became the most powerful continent.
people lost faith in the Church.
all monarchs of Europe and Asia died.
What was a result of the Black Death of the fourteenth century?
African populations destroyed from disease
Strengthened the power of the Catholic Church
war in western Europe
dramatic shortages of workers and people throughout Europe
Which of the following helped the Byzantine Empire last for almost 1000 years?
It borrowed money from the Roman Empire
It was located on a natural crossroads for international trade.
It had unpredictable rulers
It forced people to follow its religion
Byzantine culture worked to:
adapt barbarian ideas and religions for use within the empire.
preserve Greek and Roman knowledge and traditions.
create new ideas and traditions not based in the past.
remove Greek influences from all aspects of life.
The result of the Great Schism was:
The rise of Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church
The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The use of Latin language in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The creation of a new set of laws by Justinian.
What religion did the Ottoman Empire help spread throughout their empire?
Buddhism
Christianity
Shintoism
Islam
What city did the Ottoman Empire conquer in 1453 putting an end to the Byzantium Empire?
Rome
Constantinople
Athens
Vienna
One of the reasons for the wealth of the Ottoman Empire was
its control over the Eastern Mediteranian
the usage of trans-saharan trade routes
because they found the Americas first
strong diplomatic ties with the Genghis Khan
Which technology, first developed by the Chinese, enabled the Ottoman Empire to expand militarily into western Asia, Europe, and northern Africa?
woodblock printing
wheelbarrow
gunpowder
magnetic compass
Suleman was known to westerners as the Magnificent, but to many others he was known as the
Gravedigger
Enlightened
Lawgiver
Peace Maker
Which of the following was a system in which the Ottomans took Christian boys, converted them to Islam, and had them work in the military and government?
Millet System
Sultan System
Vizier System
Devshirme System
Which is a reason for the fall of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire? (Select all that are true)
Ottoman use of gunpowder to bring down their walls.
It was weakened by the plague.
It was weakened by the Crusades.
It was cut off from trade routes by the Ottoman Turks.
It's capital city was hard to defend.
