WorksheetsUnit 7: Medieval Europe LT1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Who was the head of the Medieval Christian Church?
The Pope (Bishop of Rome)
The King
The Cardinals
Archbishops
What do we call the head of a monastery & a convent?
The Pope
Monks and Nuns
Abbot and Abbess
Friars and Beguines
Arrange the following in the correct order of authority (from highest to lowest)
Bishop
Cardinal
Village Priests
Pope
Archbishop
Select the reasons as to why people joined the Crusades (you may choose multiple)
Crusaders would be promised eternal life
All Crusaders who took part would be provided their own village to govern
Crusaders would be offered economic benefits such as forgetting their debts
Some Crusaders may have been forced by their feudal lords to take part
Taking part in the Crusades was the last step to being promoted from squire to knight
What are some things that monks and nuns do within their monasteries/convents? (Check all that apply)
(a)
Create manuscripts of the Bible
Pray
Labor in the fields
Remain in silence
What is the name of the treaty that separated the Holy Roman Empire into 3 parts?
The Catholic Accords
The Treaty of Rome
The Concordat of Worms
The Treaty of Verdun
What are some characteristics of Gothic architecture? (select all that apply)
Pointed arches
Stained glass windows
Flying Buttress
Rib vaults
Spiked roofing
What was the duty of the Cardinals?
To control and administrate parishes (churches)
To elect the Pope
To oversee and make sure the Abbot was doing his job correctly
To deliver the sacraments
Who was in charge of delivering sacraments (sacred rituals) to members of the church?
Village Priests
Monks and Nuns
The King
The Abbot or Abbess
Why was Jerusalem important? (select all that apply)
It was the homeland for Jews
It is where the 3 major faiths believed that the world's richest resources were
For Muslims, it is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven
Christians believed it is where Jesus Christ’s birth and death took place
What is it called when Christians were cut off from the church and disallowed from receiving the sacraments?
Banished
Schism
Execution
Excommunication
The objective of the Crusades were to...
convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity
gain access to trading routes in the East
recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule
destroy all non-Christian powers from Europe to Asia
Select the 3 things that monks & nuns had to vow to.
Purity
Silence
Obedience
Poverty
Prayer
Who is known to be the greatest King of the Franks? He would also go on to be named the Holy Roman Emperor...
Pepin the Short
King Clovis I
Charlemagne
Charles Martel
Anti-Semitism was prejudice towards which group in the Middle Ages?
Germanic tribes
Muslims
Jews
Peasants
Kings appointing church officials is know as....
lay investiture
Monarchial election
democracy
simony
True or False: Pope Urban II called for volunteer knights to take part in the Crusades.
True
False
Select the following things that led to corruption within the Medieval Christian Church
Monks and nuns ignored the oath of poverty
The Church sometimes sold church positions to the highest bidder
The King would sometimes disguise as the Pope
Nobles would oftentimes hold church officials captive to control them
In what way were Beguines and Friars different from nuns and monks?
Beguines and Friars were only Jewish while nuns and monks were Catholic
They were actually the same, nuns and monks were just ranked lower
They did not have to vow to anything
They interacted with the outside world rather than staying within their monasteries or convents
Which of the following were results from the Crusades? (select all that apply)
The Eastern and Western Christians officially unified into one church after the Great Schism
Trade increased between Europe and the Middle East
The Pope lost power while European kings gained power
Tensions increased between Muslims, Christians, and Jews
The system of Feudalism came to an end
