WorksheetsMedieval Beginning
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A place where religious people live and dedicate their lives to prayer and meditation is called a
manor house.
church.
castle.
monastery.
Geographers will most often describe Europe as
plain and flat.
a peninsula of peninsulas.
one big river.
very mountainous.
What signaled the beginning of a new age in Europe, sometimes called medieval times?
The introduction of Christianity
The invention of modern printing
The split of the Christian Church
Germanic migrations to the Roman Empire
How did traveling priests and missionaries help Christianity to spread among the common people of Europe?
They offered peasants land in exchange for converting.
They told people that their rulers already had converted to Christianity.
They led an army that threatened harm to anyone who did not convert.
They spoke about their faith and tried to show that it was superior to pagan beliefs.
A religious order is a
list of rules followed by religions.
community of men or women devoted to prayer and service and bound by certain vows.
particular teaching of the Catholic Church.
command given by the pope.
How did cutting down a sacred tree help Saint Boniface spread Christianity?
The king of Kent, who owned the tree, converted to Christianity.
It showed that pagan gods had no power over the missionary.
He used the cut evergreen as the first Christmas tree.
The tree fell upon and killed a group of pagan priests.
What did Benedict of Nursia do in response to the greed and corruption that he saw in Rome?
He became a missionary and converted pagans.
He led a rebellion against the emperor.
He held public prayers for the city every day.
He became a hermit and then founded a monastery
Events and people from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1500 are referred to as
medieval.
ancient.
enlightened.
barbaric.
Charlemagne could be described as
a terrible ruler who hammered down his rivals.
a ruler who did not want to support learning.
a just ruler who encouraged law and learning.
a pagan ruler who was not religious.
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides is a(n)
peninsula.
island.
archipelago.
continent.
