Unit IIIA Quest Review

• Q: The middle ages would start with what significant event

• A: Fall of Rome • Q: Land was the basis of one’s • A: Wealth and power• Q: Was from Normandy, invaded and conquered

England in 1066• A: William the Conqueror • Q: Crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on

12-25-800• A: Charlemagne/Charles the Great• Q: Conquered China, tries and fails to conquer Japan• A: Mongol Empire

• Q: Goths played a role in • A: Fall of Rome • Q: Why Constantinople was a great location • A: Trade between Europe and Asia • Q: Shows that science/reason/philosophy could

help explain religion • A: Scholasticism • Q: Agriculture was the basic economy for • A: Feudal manor • Q: Charlemagne sought to do what with his

power• A: Centralize it

• Q: What system was self sufficient • A: Manor system • Q: The RCC would play a role in the political

and _____ lives of medieval Europe • A: Social • Q: Two major rivers in Mesopotamia• A: Tigris and Euphrates • Q: Purpose of the guilds • A: Standardize goods and prices/protects

workers • Q: Inquisition • A: Find heretics/persecute them

• Q: Capetian monarchy ruled for • A: 200 years • Q: Converted to Christianity and helped brought

Christianity to Europe/Franks unite and rise • A: Clovis • Q: Architecture/pointed/impression of height/• A: Gothic • Q: Would provide unification and stability to Europe • A: RCC• Q: Religion that started as a movement against

Hinduism • A: Buddhism

• Q: Collapse of the central authority (fall of Rome) would lead to the formation of

• A: Feudalism/system • Q: First European explorer to sail to N. America

before Columbus • A: Leif Ericson • Q: Europeans would demand goods from the

Middle East as a result of • A: The Crusades • Q: Result of the conflict between the RCC and

Germany • A: Germany would be weak and disunited

• Q: Portcullis • A: Wooden grill/protect the gate • Q: Major cultural development in the middle

ages is that literature would start to be written in the

• A: Vernacular = common language • Q: High church officials would come from

what class • A: Noble• Q: Italy was governed by • A: Local nobles/nobility

• Q: English king who signed the Magna Carta• A: John • Q: Prior to the plague Europe went through• A: Declining birth rates, overpopulation, climate

change, famine • Q: Spanish monarchs who were hostile to non-

Christian religions • A: Ferdinand and Isabella • Q: Italian city-states (i.e. Venice) are going to grow

because of the • A: Crusades• Q: Difference between Arab and Viking expansion • A: Arabs = urban centers/Vikings = non-urban

• Q: Germanic tribe that would settle Britain • A: Saxons • Q: King that expanded the borders (Scotland to Spain)• A: Henry II • Q: Lower production higher prices were a result of • A: Plague • Q: Two popes, nobody knows who the true pope was • A: Great Schism • Q: Hajj• A: Pilgrimage to Mecca • Q: Extreme ornamentation/stained glass told biblical

stories/ larger cathedrals • A: Gothic architecture

• Q: Cultural influence of the Muslim empire in Spain

• A: Architecture • Q: Aristarchus • A: Astronomer/sun-centered the universe • Q: Main entrance of the keep • A: Forebuilding • Q: Basis of the pope’s/RCC’s power• A: Petrine Doctrine • Q: Civilizations that arose from the Indus Valley• A: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro