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History Final Vocabulary

Total questions: 75

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A mounted warrior in medieval times is called a ________.

a)

Knight

b)

Peasant

c)

Scribe

d)

Merchant

2.

Mock battles that came into fashion during medieval times are called ________.

a)

Tournaments

b)

Jousts

c)

Feasts

d)

Guilds

3.

A code of conduct adopted by knights is known as ________.

a)

Chivalry

b)

Feudalism

c)

Democracy

d)

Monarchy

4.

The lord’s estate, which was the heart of the medieval economy, is called the ________.

a)

manor

b)

guild

c)

fief

d)

abbey

5.

The system where the lord exercised legal and economic power over peasants in his estate is called the ________ system.

a)

manor

b)

guild

c)

feudal

d)

mercantile

6.

Peasants who were not slaves but weren’t free either were called ________.

a)

Serfs

b)

Lords

c)

Vassals

d)

Knights

7.

Christians believe they must do the ________ in order to achieve salvation; there are 7 of these in the Catholic Faith.

a)

sacraments

b)

commandments

c)

prayers

d)

festivals

8.

A tax paid each year to the Church is called a ________.

a)

Tithe

b)

Tariff

c)

Tribute

d)

Levy

9.

A set of rules on how to run a church created by a monk named Benedict in 530 A.D is called the ________ Rule.

a)

Benedict

b)

Augustine

c)

Franciscan

d)

Dominican

10.

Authority over secular rulers is known as ________ Supremacy.

a)

Papal

b)

Royal

c)

Judicial

d)

Imperial

11.

Law based on religious teachings and governing many aspects of life is called ________ law.

a)

Canon

b)

Civil

c)

Criminal

d)

Common

12.

People who were cut off from the Church and its sacraments were said to be under ________.

a)

Excommunication

b)

Canonization

c)

Ordination

d)

Sanctification

13.

An entire kingdom being excluded from the sacraments is called an ________.

a)

Interdict

b)

Excommunication

c)

Penance

d)

Concordat

14.

Monks who traveled widely preaching to the poor, especially in Europe’s growing towns, were called ________.

a)

Friars

b)

Abbots

c)

Hermits

d)

Monastics

15.

Prejudice against Jews is known as ________-Semitism.

a)

Anti

b)

Pro

c)

Neo

d)

Ultra

16.

Holy images used mostly in the Orthodox Faith are called ________.

a)

Icons

b)

Frescoes

c)

Manuscripts

d)

Totems

17.

The permanent divide between Eastern and Western Christianity is called the Great ________.

a)

Schism

b)

Reformation

c)

Council

d)

Union

18.

A written document that set out the rights and privileges of the town is called a ________.

a)

Charter

b)

Treaty

c)

Decree

d)

Manifesto

19.

Money for investments is called ________.

a)

Capital

b)

Revenue

c)

Expense

d)

Liability

20.

Groups of merchants who joined together in the medieval period were called ________.

a)

Partnerships

b)

Guilds

c)

Manors

d)

Fiefs

21.

Those who paid rent for their land or hired farm laborers were called ________ Farmers.

a)

Tenant

b)

Sharecropper

c)

Owner

d)

Subsidy

22.

A new class that included merchants, traders, and artisans, standing between nobles and peasants, was called the ________ Class.

a)

Middle

b)

Upper

c)

Working

d)

Royal

23.

Medieval associations formed by Artisans and Merchants were called ________.

a)

Guilds

b)

Manors

c)

Fiefs

d)

Serfs

24.

A trainee under the management of a master is called an ________.

a)

Apprentice

b)

Mentor

c)

Supervisor

d)

Manager

25.

Salaried workers who worked under Guilds were called ________.

a)

Journeymen

b)

Masters

c)

Apprentices

d)

Craftsmen

26.

______ is a series of wars between Christians and Muslims over the holy land, which lasted until 1291.

a)

Crusades

b)

Renaissance

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Hundred Years' War

27.

In 1271, a young Venetian, ______, set out for China with his uncle and father.

a)

Marco Polo

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Vasco da Gama

28.

The Spanish Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim Rule is known as the ______.

a)

Reconquista

b)

Crusades

c)

Renaissance

d)

Inquisition

29.

______ was a Church Court designed to try people accused of heresy.

a)

The Inquisition

b)

The Reformation

c)

The Renaissance

d)

The Crusades

30.

From about 1000 to 1300, sometimes called the ______, the balance of power shifted slowly.

a)

High Middle Ages

b)

Renaissance

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Age of Enlightenment

31.

The term “______” is used to describe the Germanic People that migrated into England in the 400s, including the Angles and the Saxons.

a)

Anglo Saxon

b)

Vikings

c)

Normans

d)

Celts

32.

At the battle of ______, William and his Norman knights triumphed over Harold.

a)

Hastings

b)

Agincourt

c)

Waterloo

d)

Bannockburn

33.

______ or a legal system based on custom and court rulings.

a)

Common Law

b)

Civil Law

c)

Canon Law

d)

Statutory Law

34.

______ was a clever, cruel and untrustworthy ruler and a son of Henry II of England.

a)

King John

b)

Richard the Lionheart

c)

Edward I

d)

William the Conqueror

35.

The ______ asserted that the nobles had certain rights and made it so that the monarch had to obey the law.

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Petition of Right

d)

Habeas Corpus

36.

______ all freemen were protected from arbitrary arrest except by legal judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.

a)

Due Process of Law

b)

Habeas Corpus

c)

Double Jeopardy

d)

Ex Post Facto

37.

______ is the principle that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.

a)

Habeas corpus

b)

Ex post facto

c)

Double jeopardy

d)

Bill of attainder

38.

______ is the English council to the king which eventually became England’s Legislature Today.

a)

Parliament

b)

Senate

c)

Congress

d)

Diet

39.

______ was one of the greatest medieval popes, but also one of its most controversial.

a)

Pope Gregory VII

b)

Pope Urban II

c)

Pope Innocent III

d)

Pope Leo IX

40.

______ - Under this practice, the emperor or another lay person, invested or presented bishops with the ring and staff that symbolized their office.

a)

Lay Investiture

b)

Simony

c)

Excommunication

d)

Concordat of Worms

41.

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, or ______ or Red Beard, dreamed of building an Empire from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

a)

Frederick Barbarossa

b)

Otto the Great

c)

Charles V

d)

Henry IV

42.

______ who took office in 1198, embodied the triumph of the Church, as head of the Church, he claimed supremacy over all other rulers.

a)

Pope Innocent III

b)

Pope Urban II

c)

Pope Gregory VII

d)

Pope Leo IX

43.

______ also known as Christian Scholars tried to resolve the conflict between faith and reason.

a)

Scholastics

b)

Humanists

c)

Alchemists

d)

Monastics

44.

______ which used reason to support Christian beliefs.

a)

Scholasticism

b)

Romanticism

c)

Existentialism

d)

Humanism

45.

Thomas Aquinas concluded that faith and reason exist in harmony in the monumental work ________.

a)

Summa Theologica

b)

Confessions

c)

The Republic

d)

City of God

46.

Dante Alighieri is the writer of the ________.

a)

Divine Comedy

b)

Paradise Lost

c)

The Odyssey

d)

Beowulf

47.

In the Canterbury Tales, the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer follows a band of English Pilgrims traveling to ________'s tomb.

a)

Thomas Becket

b)

Edward the Confessor

c)

Richard the Lionheart

d)

King Arthur

48.

A key feature of the new Gothic Style was the ________, stone supports that stood outside the Church.

a)

Flying Buttresses

b)

Gargoyles

c)

Rose Windows

d)

Ribbed Vaults

49.

Throughout the Middle Ages, monks, nuns and other skilled artisans decorated the handwritten books of the time with elaborate designs and illustrations, known as ________.

a)

Illumination

b)

Calligraphy

c)

Engraving

d)

Typography

50.

Icons are images designed to evoke the presence of ________.

a)

God

b)

Kings

c)

Animals

d)

Nature

51.

Epidemic is an outbreak of ________.

a)

rapid-spreading disease

b)

natural disaster

c)

economic crisis

d)

political movement

52.

A longbow is a powerful new weapon wielded by English archers. The longbow was six feet long, and took years to master but could launch ________ at once.

a)

3 arrows

b)

1 arrow

c)

5 arrows

d)

10 arrows

53.

A steppe is an open treeless ________.

a)

grassland

b)

desert

c)

forest

d)

mountain

54.

Kiev is the center of the first ________ State.

a)

Russian

b)

Polish

c)

Hungarian

d)

Bulgarian

55.

Cyrillic is the alphabet created by two Greek brothers in order to adopt the Slavic tongue to translate the ________.

a)

bible

b)

constitution

c)

epic poems

d)

laws

56.

Ivan the Great was a Russian ruler who ruled between 1462 and 1505, he brought much of ________ under his rule.

a)

Northern Russia

b)

Southern Russia

c)

Eastern Europe

d)

Central Asia

57.

Ivan the Terrible was the unstable Russian ruler who started the cycle of never ending ________ in the country.

a)

corruption

b)

prosperity

c)

peace

d)

unity

58.

The Balkan Peninsula, often called the Balkans, is a roughly triangular area that juts southwards into the warm ________.

a)

Mediterranean

b)

Arctic

c)

Atlantic

d)

Indian

59.

An Ethnic Group is a group of people who share the same language and cultural ________.

a)

heritage

b)

food

c)

climate

d)

music

60.

A Diet is an assembly used in the Holy Roman Empire and ________.

a)

Poland

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Spain

61.

The Golden Bull of 1222 strictly limited royal power of the ________ King.

a)

Hungarian

b)

French

c)

English

d)

Spanish

62.

Renaissance literally means ________.

a)

rebirth

b)

revolution

c)

enlightenment

d)

creation

63.

Humanism is an intellectual movement which studied classical Greek and Roman cultures, hoping to use the wisdom of the ancients to increase their understanding of their own ________.

a)

times

b)

religion

c)

language

d)

artifacts

64.

__________ are subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history that had been taught in Greek and Roman Schools.

a)

Humanities

b)

Sciences

c)

Mathematics

d)

Engineering

65.

__________, who was born in 1452 and painted the Mona Lisa, had endless curiosity and was a genius for invention. He sketched objects in nature and dissected corpses to see how bodies worked.

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Raphael

d)

Donatello

66.

__________ was the writer of The Book of the Courtier, in which he describes the manners, skills, learning, and virtues that each member of the court should have.

a)

Baldassare Castiglione

b)

Niccolò Machiavelli

c)

Thomas More

d)

Desiderius Erasmus

67.

__________ was the writer of The Prince, a handbook for navigating politics during the Renaissance.

a)

Machiavelli

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Michelangelo

68.

__________ also pressed for social and economic reforms. In Utopia, he describes an idea society in which men and women live in peace and harmony.

a)

Sir Thomas More

b)

Niccolò Machiavelli

c)

Desiderius Erasmus

d)

Francis Bacon

69.

__________ was a type of pardon that the Church said lessened the time of punishment a soul faced for the sins committed during life.

a)

Indulgences

b)

Excommunication

c)

Sacraments

d)

Pilgrimages

70.

__________ was raised in a middle class German family and had been slated by his father for a career as a lawyer.

a)

Martin Luther

b)

Johann Sebastian Bach

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Albert Einstein

71.

__________, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, fought against the Protestants in Germany.

a)

Charles V

b)

Henry VIII

c)

Philip II

d)

Louis XIV

72.

__________ refers to those who protested Papal Authority.

a)

Protestant

b)

Catholic

c)

Orthodox

d)

Anglican

73.

__________ is the idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation.

a)

Predestination

b)

Transubstantiation

c)

Excommunication

d)

Purgatory

74.

__________ is a city state in Switzerland where John Calvin set up shop.

a)

Geneva

b)

Zurich

c)

Bern

d)

Lausanne

75.

__________ is a government ran by Church leaders.

a)

Theocracy

b)

Democracy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Oligarchy