Chapter 9 Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
Answer the following questions as a short review(THIS SHOULD NOT BE YOUR ONLY STUDY)
Test yourself and see if you can do all of this without looking in the book
Fill in the blank
1. An architectural style developed during the Middle Ages in Western Europe,
____________architecture featured pointed arches and flying buttresses
2. ____________was the system that described economic and political relations between
landlords and their peasant laborers.
3. ____________described relationships among military elites in which greater lords provided
protection and aid to lesser lords
4. The ____________were the royal house of the Franks from the eighth to the tenth century
5. The ____________ were the royal house of the Franks from the eighth to the tenth century
6. The system of agricultural cultivation by the ninth century in Western Europe was the
____________ system, utilizing one-third fallow, one-third spring grains, and one-third winter
grains
7. ____________invaded England from Normandy in 1066 and implemented a feudal system in
England
8. The ____________ between England and France was fought between 1337 and 1453 to
establish the emerging claims of national states.
9. An organization of cities in Northern Germany for the purpose of establishing a commercial
alliance was called the ____________.
10. Sworn associations of people in the same business or trade in a single city, ____________,
stressed security and guaranteed good workmanship.
True or false
1. ______ In the manorial system, serfs were actually slaves who could be bought and sold
2. ______ The Frankish ruler Charlemagne recreated an empire in the West in the year 800
3. ______ Pope Gregory VII wished to free the Church from secular interference by banning the
practice of investiture
4. ______ Peter Abelard of the University of Paris rejected the use of scholasticism and insisted on
the primacy of faith in obtaining knowledge
5. ______ The medieval West established some commercial headway, but fell far short of
capitalism
6. ______ Parliaments representing not individual voters but privileged groups intent on
counterbalancing the powers of the monarchy, grew up in England, Spain, France, and other
countries
7. ______ The dominant medieval teaching and philosophical approach, humanism, was based on
the use of logic to resolve theological problems
8. ______ Emperors in Northern Italy and Germany following the split of Charlemagne’s empire
claimed the title of Holy Roman Emperors
9. ______ Lesser lords or Vassals received land or a benefice from a lord to return for military
service and loyalty
10. ______ The early Frankish king who converted the Franks to Christianity was Charles Martel