WorksheetsHistory Final Vocabulary
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 38mins
A mounted warrior in medieval times is called a ________.
Knight
Peasant
Scribe
Merchant
Mock battles that came into fashion during medieval times are called ________.
Tournaments
Jousts
Feasts
Guilds
A code of conduct adopted by knights is known as ________.
Chivalry
Feudalism
Democracy
Monarchy
The lord’s estate, which was the heart of the medieval economy, is called the ________.
manor
guild
fief
abbey
The system where the lord exercised legal and economic power over peasants in his estate is called the ________ system.
manor
guild
feudal
mercantile
Peasants who were not slaves but weren’t free either were called ________.
Serfs
Lords
Vassals
Knights
Christians believe they must do the ________ in order to achieve salvation; there are 7 of these in the Catholic Faith.
sacraments
commandments
prayers
festivals
A tax paid each year to the Church is called a ________.
Tithe
Tariff
Tribute
Levy
A set of rules on how to run a church created by a monk named Benedict in 530 A.D is called the ________ Rule.
Benedict
Augustine
Franciscan
Dominican
Authority over secular rulers is known as ________ Supremacy.
Papal
Royal
Judicial
Imperial
Law based on religious teachings and governing many aspects of life is called ________ law.
Canon
Civil
Criminal
Common
People who were cut off from the Church and its sacraments were said to be under ________.
Excommunication
Canonization
Ordination
Sanctification
An entire kingdom being excluded from the sacraments is called an ________.
Interdict
Excommunication
Penance
Concordat
Monks who traveled widely preaching to the poor, especially in Europe’s growing towns, were called ________.
Friars
Abbots
Hermits
Monastics
Prejudice against Jews is known as ________-Semitism.
Anti
Pro
Neo
Ultra
Holy images used mostly in the Orthodox Faith are called ________.
Icons
Frescoes
Manuscripts
Totems
The permanent divide between Eastern and Western Christianity is called the Great ________.
Schism
Reformation
Council
Union
A written document that set out the rights and privileges of the town is called a ________.
Charter
Treaty
Decree
Manifesto
Money for investments is called ________.
Capital
Revenue
Expense
Liability
Groups of merchants who joined together in the medieval period were called ________.
Partnerships
Guilds
Manors
Fiefs
Those who paid rent for their land or hired farm laborers were called ________ Farmers.
Tenant
Sharecropper
Owner
Subsidy
A new class that included merchants, traders, and artisans, standing between nobles and peasants, was called the ________ Class.
Middle
Upper
Working
Royal
Medieval associations formed by Artisans and Merchants were called ________.
Guilds
Manors
Fiefs
Serfs
A trainee under the management of a master is called an ________.
Apprentice
Mentor
Supervisor
Manager
Salaried workers who worked under Guilds were called ________.
Journeymen
Masters
Apprentices
Craftsmen
______ is a series of wars between Christians and Muslims over the holy land, which lasted until 1291.
Crusades
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Hundred Years' War
In 1271, a young Venetian, ______, set out for China with his uncle and father.
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
The Spanish Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim Rule is known as the ______.
Reconquista
Crusades
Renaissance
Inquisition
______ was a Church Court designed to try people accused of heresy.
The Inquisition
The Reformation
The Renaissance
The Crusades
From about 1000 to 1300, sometimes called the ______, the balance of power shifted slowly.
High Middle Ages
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Age of Enlightenment
The term “______” is used to describe the Germanic People that migrated into England in the 400s, including the Angles and the Saxons.
Anglo Saxon
Vikings
Normans
Celts
At the battle of ______, William and his Norman knights triumphed over Harold.
Hastings
Agincourt
Waterloo
Bannockburn
______ or a legal system based on custom and court rulings.
Common Law
Civil Law
Canon Law
Statutory Law
______ was a clever, cruel and untrustworthy ruler and a son of Henry II of England.
King John
Richard the Lionheart
Edward I
William the Conqueror
The ______ asserted that the nobles had certain rights and made it so that the monarch had to obey the law.
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Petition of Right
Habeas Corpus
______ all freemen were protected from arbitrary arrest except by legal judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
Due Process of Law
Habeas Corpus
Double Jeopardy
Ex Post Facto
______ is the principle that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.
Habeas corpus
Ex post facto
Double jeopardy
Bill of attainder
______ is the English council to the king which eventually became England’s Legislature Today.
Parliament
Senate
Congress
Diet
______ was one of the greatest medieval popes, but also one of its most controversial.
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Urban II
Pope Innocent III
Pope Leo IX
______ - Under this practice, the emperor or another lay person, invested or presented bishops with the ring and staff that symbolized their office.
Lay Investiture
Simony
Excommunication
Concordat of Worms
The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, or ______ or Red Beard, dreamed of building an Empire from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
Frederick Barbarossa
Otto the Great
Charles V
Henry IV
______ who took office in 1198, embodied the triumph of the Church, as head of the Church, he claimed supremacy over all other rulers.
Pope Innocent III
Pope Urban II
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Leo IX
______ also known as Christian Scholars tried to resolve the conflict between faith and reason.
Scholastics
Humanists
Alchemists
Monastics
______ which used reason to support Christian beliefs.
Scholasticism
Romanticism
Existentialism
Humanism
Thomas Aquinas concluded that faith and reason exist in harmony in the monumental work ________.
Summa Theologica
Confessions
The Republic
City of God
Dante Alighieri is the writer of the ________.
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Odyssey
Beowulf
In the Canterbury Tales, the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer follows a band of English Pilgrims traveling to ________'s tomb.
Thomas Becket
Edward the Confessor
Richard the Lionheart
King Arthur
A key feature of the new Gothic Style was the ________, stone supports that stood outside the Church.
Flying Buttresses
Gargoyles
Rose Windows
Ribbed Vaults
Throughout the Middle Ages, monks, nuns and other skilled artisans decorated the handwritten books of the time with elaborate designs and illustrations, known as ________.
Illumination
Calligraphy
Engraving
Typography
Icons are images designed to evoke the presence of ________.
God
Kings
Animals
Nature
Epidemic is an outbreak of ________.
rapid-spreading disease
natural disaster
economic crisis
political movement
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.
3 arrows
1 arrow
5 arrows
10 arrows
A steppe is an open treeless ________.
grassland
desert
forest
mountain
Kiev is the center of the first ________ State.
Russian
Polish
Hungarian
Bulgarian
Cyrillic is the alphabet created by two Greek brothers in order to adopt the Slavic tongue to translate the ________.
bible
constitution
epic poems
laws
Ivan the Great was a Russian ruler who ruled between 1462 and 1505, he brought much of ________ under his rule.
Northern Russia
Southern Russia
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
Ivan the Terrible was the unstable Russian ruler who started the cycle of never ending ________ in the country.
corruption
prosperity
peace
unity
The Balkan Peninsula, often called the Balkans, is a roughly triangular area that juts southwards into the warm ________.
Mediterranean
Arctic
Atlantic
Indian
An Ethnic Group is a group of people who share the same language and cultural ________.
heritage
food
climate
music
A Diet is an assembly used in the Holy Roman Empire and ________.
Poland
France
Italy
Spain
The Golden Bull of 1222 strictly limited royal power of the ________ King.
Hungarian
French
English
Spanish
Renaissance literally means ________.
rebirth
revolution
enlightenment
creation
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 ________.
times
religion
language
artifacts
__________ are subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history that had been taught in Greek and Roman Schools.
Humanities
Sciences
Mathematics
Engineering
__________, 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
__________ 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.
Baldassare Castiglione
Niccolò Machiavelli
Thomas More
Desiderius Erasmus
__________ was the writer of The Prince, a handbook for navigating politics during the Renaissance.
Machiavelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Michelangelo
__________ also pressed for social and economic reforms. In Utopia, he describes an idea society in which men and women live in peace and harmony.
Sir Thomas More
Niccolò Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
Francis Bacon
__________ was a type of pardon that the Church said lessened the time of punishment a soul faced for the sins committed during life.
Indulgences
Excommunication
Sacraments
Pilgrimages
__________ was raised in a middle class German family and had been slated by his father for a career as a lawyer.
Martin Luther
Johann Sebastian Bach
Otto von Bismarck
Albert Einstein
__________, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, fought against the Protestants in Germany.
Charles V
Henry VIII
Philip II
Louis XIV
__________ refers to those who protested Papal Authority.
Protestant
Catholic
Orthodox
Anglican
__________ is the idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation.
Predestination
Transubstantiation
Excommunication
Purgatory
__________ is a city state in Switzerland where John Calvin set up shop.
Geneva
Zurich
Bern
Lausanne
__________ is a government ran by Church leaders.
Theocracy
Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
