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2. How would you account for the eventual victory of the Christian kingdoms in the reconquista?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms
3. What is the best way to understand the crusades: as economic opportunities; a redirection of internecine, divisive intra-
European conflicts; a clash between two different civilizations; or something else entirely?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Background to the Crusades
The Early Crusades
The Crusades of the Thirteenth Century
What Were the Effects of the Crusades?
4. The crusades have been called "successful failures." In your opinion, is this an accurate statement?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: What Were the Effects of the Crusades?
5. What were the key views of the Cathars? How and why did the Cathars come in conflict with the Catholic Church?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Voices of Protest and Intolerance
6. The papacy underwent dramatic reforms and modifications in medieval times. How did the institution change at this
time? What powers did it gain? What powers or influence did it lose?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Lands of the Holy Roman Empire: Germany and Italy
The Cluniac Reform Movement
Reform of the Papacy
The Crusades
7. What does the inquisition suggest about the relationships between society, the Catholic Church as an institution, and
political power?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Reform of the Papacy
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8. What role did the church play in the development of early Russia?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Development of Russia
9. What challenges did the Roman Catholic Church face at the beginning of the eleventh century? How did church leaders
respond to those challenges?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Problem of Decline
10. What opportunities were there in medieval Europe for women to express their religiosity and spirituality?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Women in Religious Orders
Living the Gospel Life
Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
11. Discuss how the church administration of the seven sacraments shaped the lives of ordinary Europeans from cradle to
grave.
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
15. Henry II
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Henry II
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18. Parliament
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Edward I and the Emergence of Parliament
22. Estates-General
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Philip IV and the Estates-General
24. reconquista
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms
26. boyars
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Development of Russia
28. Frederick II
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Frederick II
29. interdict
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Growth of the Papal Monarchy
40. Cistercians
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: New Religious and Spiritual Orders
44. Franciscans
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Living the Gospel Life
45. Dominicans
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Living the Gospel Life
47. sacraments
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
48. Eucharist
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
49. relics
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
50. Cathars/Albigensians
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Voices of Protest and Intolerance
54. sultan
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Islam and the Seljuk Turks
64. After which battle in 1066 did William the Conqueror take over England?
a. Poitiers
b. Runnymede
c. Hastings
d. Bosworth Field
e. Agincourt
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: England in the High Middle Ages
65. How did feudalism in England under William I differ from feudalism in most other countries?
a. He de-emphasized the role of knights.
b. He required all sub-vassals to swear allegiance to him.
c. He eliminated the obligation of homage.
d. He drastically reduced the size of fiefs.
e. He awarded manors only to members of his own family.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: England in the High Middle Ages
66. What best summarizes the policies and goals of William of Normandy in England?
a. He made few if any changes to existing conditions.
b. He eliminated all Anglo-Saxon institutions.
c. He created a strong, centralized monarchy.
d. He reduced England to poverty and ruin.
e. He enslaved of the people of England.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
67. Over which institution did Henry II of England struggle to exert control?
a. The courts
b. The church
c. Universities
d. Nobility
e. Merchants
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Henry II
68. Which powerful and wealthy woman did Henry, Duke of Anjou, marry in 1152?
a. Eleanor of Aquitaine
b. Matilda of Touraine
c. Hildegard of Bingen
d. Catherine d' Medici
e. Catherine of Tours
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Henry II
69. What gave the English barons the excuse they needed to challenge the power of King John?
a. A sex scandal
b. A series of military defeats
c. Religious divisions
d. A peasant uprising
e. The threat of invasion by Spain
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: King John and Magna Carta
72. Which statement best describes the state of France when the rule of the Capetians began at the end of the tenth
century?
a. France was the most powerful country in Europe.
b. The French king only controlled an area known as the Ile-de-France.
c. The French had just defeated the English in the Hundred Year's War.
d. Bordeaux was the French capital.
e. French Capet princes were the Kings of Jerusalem.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Growth of the French Kingdom
73. The three estates of the Estates General included the nobility, the townspeople, and the
a. army.
b. judiciary.
c. serfs.
d. clergy.
e. peasants.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Philip IV and the Estates-General
74. Which statement best describes Spain at the end of the twelfth century?
a. It was free of Muslim control in the northern half of the country.
b. It was a fully united Christian kingdom.
c. It was once again completely under the control of the Muslims.
d. Spain was the most powerful nation in Europe.
e. It was ruled by the Valois dynasty of France.
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms
75. By the end of the twelfth century, the northern half of Spain had
a. splintered into hundreds of principalities.
b. become the wealthiest region in Europe.
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76. Which statement best characterizes the outcome of the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa?
a. Spanish Muslims achieved an important victory.
b. The Franks lost their last foothold in Spain.
c. A new Muslim kingdom was established in northern Spain.
d. The reconquista was completed.
e. Spanish Christians achieved an important victory.
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms
79. Frederick Barbarossa's defeat at Legnano in 1176, ended his attempt to control which area?
a. The principalities of the Rhineland
b. The Duchy of Burgundy
c. The towns in northern Italy
d. The Hanseatic towns in northern Germany
e. Parts of France
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80. Which statement most closely describes conditions in Scandinavia by the twelfth century?
a. It remained largely pagan and resistant to European culture.
b. It contained the continent's most powerful nation, Sweden.
c. It entered into a period of relative peace within and between local kingdoms.
d. It had accepted Christianity through the agency of local kings who wished to better organize and govern their
states.
e. It abandoned their marriage alliances with the Holy Roman Empire.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: New Kingdoms in Northern and Eastern Europe
82. In the first half of the eleventh century, Kievan society was dominated by
a. noble landowners.
b. Mongol overlords.
c. Byzantine aristocrats.
d. Roman Catholic bishops.
e. Tatar tribes.
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Development of Russia
84. What was a consequence of the secularization of bishops and abbots in the Early Middle Ages?
a. The collapse of Christian worship in many places
b. Greater popular respect for the church
c. A decline in the execution of their spiritual duties weakening the moral authority of the church
d. Greater respect shown to the church and its officials by nobles
e. The revival of Arianism
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Problem of Decline
87. With which of the following statements would Pope Gregory VII have agreed?
a. The pope’s authority extended to all Christians.
b. Lay investiture was necessary for the church’s survival.
c. Kings were absolute rulers in their own lands.
d. The pope was the bishop of Rome, no more and no less.
e. Holy Roman Emperors had the right to select the pope.
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Reform of the Papacy
88. With which king did Gregory VII come into conflict with during the Investiture Controversy?
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89. What was the compromise agreement that resolved the Investiture Controversy in 1122?
a. Concordant of Rome
b. Concordant of Canossa
c. Concordant of Verdun
d. Concordant of Worms
e. Concordant of Cologne
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Reform of the Papacy
90. What was primarily responsible for the centralization of the church during the twelfth century?
a. the diligent efforts of capable bishops
b. an efficient and well-organized papal curia
c. the influence of the monastic orders
d. a series of autocratic but efficient popes
e. weak kings and emperors throughout Europe
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Growth of the Papal Monarchy
91. Under which pope did the papacy reach its zenith of power in the thirteenth century?
a. Urban II
b. Pius III
c. Gregory VII
d. Boniface VIII
e. Innocent III
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Growth of the Papal Monarchy
92. What was the action of the medieval church that closed churches in a region or a country and that forbade the clergy
from administering the sacraments to the populace?
a. Excommunication
b. An indulgence
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97. What did Saint Dominic seek to achieve as the founder of the new Dominican order of preachers?
a. Limit papal power.
b. Reject poverty for the members of new church orders.
c. Create a new order of learned prelates to fight heresy within the church.
d. Work closely with popes to reform the College of Cardinals.
e. Preach on street corners to common people.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Living the Gospel Life
98. Nicholas of Cologne led which crusade to the Holy Land in 1212?
a. The Merchants' Crusade
b. The Peasant's Crusade
c. The Children's Crusade
d. The Monk's Crusade
e. The Pope's Crusade
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Crusades of the Thirteenth Century
99. Who was the most revered saint of the High Middle Ages?
a. The Virgin Mary
b. Saint Augustine
c. Saint Nicholas
d. Saint Patrick
e. Saint Francis of Assisi
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
107. Who unified and dominated the Islamic world in the mid-eleventh century?
a. Fatimids
b. Ottomans
c. Berbers
d. Abbasids
e. Seljuks
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Islam and the Seljuk Turks
111. Most of the nobles who participated in the First Crusade were from
a. the Byzantine Empire.
b. Spain.
c. Italy.
d. England.
e. France.
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The First Crusade
112. After the Fourth Crusade was diverted from Jerusalem, which city did they sack?
a. Alexandria
b. Constantinople
c. Rome
d. Venice
e. Paris
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Crusades of the Thirteenth Century
114. The Norman conquest created dynastic connections between England and France.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: England in the High Middle Ages
116. The Spanish kingdoms treated conquered Muslim populations in the same way.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms
117. Frederick II’s main goal was establish a strong centralized state in Italy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Frederick II
118. The Kievan Rus state had few if any trade ties with Europe.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Development of Russia
119. Gregory VII was the greatest of the reform popes of the eleventh century.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Reform of the Papacy
121. Relics were usually the bones of saints or objects closely connected to saints.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages
122. The Crusades offered the church a way to rid Europe of contentious young nobles.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The First Crusade
Und noch ein Blick auf die Weinbergshäuser des Meißner Landes!
Wer kennt nicht diese Zeugen liebenswürdiger Heimatkunst, die zu
fröhlicher Einkehr einladenden Weinschankgüter auf der Bosel und
im Spaargebirge, allen voran die Deutsche und die Römische Bosel,
das von Hagensche Weingut und den Meißner Ratsweinberg mit
seinen malerisch in die Bergfalten gefügten Bauten? (Abb. 21.) Wer
erinnert sich nicht gemütlicher Dämmerstunden beim Schieler und
weltverlorener Träumereien unter dem Blätterdach alter knorriger
Baumgestalten? Weitab von Tanztee und Geschäftsfieber haltet
Einkehr an solchen Stätten, und Ihr werdet den Wiederschein der
friedlichen Lebenskultur verklungener Tage in Euch erleben und den
vielgepriesenen Fortschritt der neuen Zeit nur skeptisch beurteilen.
Vom gegenüberliegenden Elbufer grüßen herüber die Burgen
Scharfenberg und Siebeneichen, diese stolzen und ehrwürdigen
Zeugen nationaler Geschichte und deutscher Baukunst und rufen
uns dunkle Sagen und bunte Geschehnisse ins Gedächtnis. Dort
fanden in noch schlimmeren Zeiten als den unseren Vertreter des
geistigen Deutschlands gastfreundliche Aufnahme. Werden der
Heimat die Tage innerer Erneuerung wiederkehren, wird das
fratzenhafte Gesicht des heutigen Lebens wieder edleren Zügen
weichen?
Doch weiter im Zuge der Elbe ins rechtselbige Meißen selbst. Hier
steht nahe der alten Steinbrücke von der Niederung gesehen kühn in
das Blau des Himmels ragend ein kleines Bauwerk von
eindrucksvollem Äußern (Abb. 24). Auf glattem, würfelförmigen
Geschoßbau ruhen reichgeschwungene Renaissancegiebel derben
Profils. Zum ehemaligen Crassoschen Weinberg gehört das
Häuschen und wurde um 1600 errichtet, es entbehrt nicht des für
Meißen so charakteristischen reichgeschmückten Portals mit den
seitlichen Sitzplätzen.
Abb. 25 Rittergut Proschwitz, Weinbergshaus (Aus dem Heimatschutzarchiv)
Fußnote:
[1] Die inzwischen erfolgte Erneuerung hat leider unseren auf sie
gesetzten Hoffnungen nicht entsprochen.