WorksheetsMiddle Ages Test Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 37mins
A continent to the north of Africa connected to Asia in western Russia.
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A mountain range that separates Eastern Europe from Asia.
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The northern part of the Great European Plain
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The longest river in Europe.
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Europe’s second-longest river.
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The main river of the busiest inland system of waterways in the western part of Europe.
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The clearing of land, which causes the loss of forests and less fertile land.
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What major landform separates Europe from Asia?
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A book made in 1086 that helped King William keep track of all of the people and property in England.
Bible
Domesday
Torah
Quran
The southernmost and largest part of the island of Great Britain.
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A period in European history that lasted from about 500 to 1500A.D.
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742-814 A.D. King of the Franks who was later crowned Emperor of the Former Roman Empire in Western Europe.
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror
King John
Aleric
English king whose lords forced him to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215 which limited royal power.
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror
King John
Aleric
1028-1087 Norman king who conquered England in 1066.
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror
King John
Aleric
A northwestern region of Europe; includes the nations of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
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The location where the Magna Carta was signed.
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An English charter that limited royal power.
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What title did Pope Leo III give Charlemagne?
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Feudalism was a system, in part, that helped Europeans fight back… who was
an enemy that they defended against?
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She was one of the few medieval women to earn a living by writing.
Christine de Pisan
King John
William the Conquerer
Christine de Robertson
A man who devotes his life to religion and lives in a monastery.
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A woman who devotes her life to religion and lives in a convent.
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A community where monks live, study and pray.
convent
monastery
manor
fief
A community where nuns live, study, and pray.
convent
monastery
manor
fief
A person who teaches religion to people with different beliefs.
manorism
monk
missionary
philosopher
A king or queen who is a supreme leader
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A person who lived on and farmed feudal land
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A feudal warrior trained and prepared to fight on horseback
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A knight’s code of behavior
serf
chivalry
manners
mission
A group of craftspeople or merchants who are united by a common interest
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A woman of nobility
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A social, political, and economic system used in the Middle Ages, was based on land for service.
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In the middle ages, a system whereby the planting of crops on manor lands alternates between three fields.
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Whose army swept out of Arabia and conquered two-thirds of the Christian world?
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A Roman province on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Rome
Palestine
Chang' An
Genoa
A city near the middle of the western coast of Italy.
Rome
Palestine
Chang' An
Genoa
A capital city in Central Asia on the Silk Road.
Rome
Palestine
Chang' An
Genoa
A seaport town in Italy.
Rome
Palestine
Chang' An
Genoa
Byzantine emperor who appealed to the pope for Christian knights to fight against the Turks.
Alexius Comnenus
Pope Urban II
Marco Polo
King John
Pope who issued a plea to free the Holy Land, Palestine, from the Turks... launching the crusades.
Alexius Comnenus
Pope Urban II
Marco Polo
King John
Venetian merchant, world traveler, and writer who remained in China as a guest for 17 years.
Alexius Comnenus
Pope Urban II
Marco Polo
King John
A disease that spreads quickly.
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Major military expeditions by Christians to win back control of Palestine (Holy Land) and protect the Byzantine Empire.
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A trading route that connected Europe and the lands of the former Roman Empire with China.
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An epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rats.
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