Medieval Europe Test
1. Europe’s seas and rivers played an important part in Europe’s growth because
they provided both protection and opportunities for
a. Invading other lands.
b. Combining kingdoms.
c. Trading with nearby economies.
d. Converting distant groups to Catholicism.
2. What does the word excommunicate mean?
3. Under which system did landowning nobles govern and protect the people in
return for services?
a. Feudalism
b. Mercantilism
c. Protectionism
d. Vassalism
4. What is the code of conduct for knights called?
5. Which of the following is a fief?
a. Center of trade in Europe
b. Land granted to a vassal, or knight
c. Person who worked the lord’s land
d. Warrior in armor who fought on horseback
6. What contributed to the idea that people have rights and that the power of
government should be limited?
a. Common Law
b. House of Commons
c. House of Parliament
d. Magna Carta
7. Who did Pope Urban II call for a crusade, or holy war against?
8. Which of the following means a way of thinking that used reason to explore
questions of faith?
a. Anti-Semitism
b. Vernacular
c. Heresy
d. Scholasticism
9. What does the word anti-Semitism mean?
10. Historians believe that the Black Death first spread along which trade route?
a. China Road
b. Ivory Road
c. Silk Road
d. Trade Road
10. What was the name of the woman who helped lead the French army to victory at
Orleans?
11. France fought against which country in the Hundred Years’ War?
a. China
b. England
c. Portugal
d. Spain
12. What does the word plague mean?
13. Which of the following means the Christian struggle to take back the Iberian
Peninsula from Muslims?
a. Spanish Inquisition
b. Reconquista
c. Hundred Years’ War
d. World War I
14. What type of geographic feature are the Danube and the Po in Europe?
15. “Flying buttresses” are related to which of the following?
a. Scholasticism
b. Vernacular language
c. Romanesque architecture
d. Gothic architecture
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