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The Western Experience, 8/e

Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of States

Multiple Choice


1	Towns gained independence for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
		A)	kings granted them independence to gain their loyalty.
		B)	the Church needed towns as seats for bishoprics.
		C)	towns won their rights by armed insurrection.
		D)	nobles wanted the wealth that free towns produced.


2	Towns regulated the lives of their people in all of the following ways EXCEPT
		A)	sanitation.
		B)	weapons.
		C)	education.
		D)	business practices.


3	The biggest industry in most Medieval towns was
		A)	brewing beer.
		B)	making wool cloth.
		C)	banking.
		D)	making linen cloth.


4	The putting out system involved
		A)	expelling workers who failed to produce quality goods.
		B)	regulation of bath houses.
		C)	having each step in production performed by a specialist.
		D)	enterprises like mines, construction, and the Venice arsenal.


5	Guilds did all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	promote the interests of the commercial classes.
		B)	foster entrepreneurial initiative by encouraging free competition.
		C)	set standards, provided for members' welfare, and performed civic activities.
		D)	regulated the apprentice system which educated young people for craft work.


6	All of the following were business innovations of the time EXCEPT
		A)	banks.
		B)	double-entry bookkeeping
		C)	permanent partnerships.
		D)	maritime insurance.


7	The main importance of improved navigation to twelfth century Europe was it made possible
		A)	voyages of exploration.
		B)	naval victories over the Muslims.
		C)	more efficient trade.
		D)	widespread travel.


8	Urban life was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	cramped and overcrowded quarters.
		B)	few unmarried adults.
		C)	dirt and disease.
		D)	a steady flow of immigrants.


9	The Medieval English parliament did all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	approve new taxes.
		B)	act as the highest court.
		C)	depose unsuccessful kings.
		D)	help collect taxes.


10	The English parliament was important because it
		A)	enabled the English monarchy to win its wars against France.
		B)	established a mechanism for English subjects to participate in government.
		C)	established the separation of judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government.
		D)	led to the early end to the monarchy and establishment of a modern republic.


11	The fact that Philip the Fair's ministers were schooled in Roman law was important because it led them to
		A)	try to resurrect the representative principals of Roman politics through the Estates General.
		B)	insist that the all Frenchmen, including the king, were subject to the laws of France.
		C)	believe that his rule would only be effective if he controlled the ruler of Rome, the Pope.
		D)	consider him "emperor in his own land," subject to no higher power on earth.


12	Philip the Fair raised money in all of the following ways EXCEPT
		A)	confiscating the property of the Jews.
		B)	imprisoning foreign merchants to extort money from them.
		C)	taking subsidies from Edward I.
		D)	persecuting the Knights Templar as heretics in order to confiscate their property.


13	The Golden Bull of 1356 had the effect of
		A)	solidifying the Pope's control of the selection of the German Emperor.
		B)	confirming the Luxemburg dynasty's control of the German Empire.
		C)	institutionalizing the elective, and hence weak, basis of the Emperor's power.
		D)	enabling the Habsburg family to dominate the German Empire from then on.


14	The Mongols conquered in all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	China.
		B)	Persia.
		C)	Byzantium.
		D)	Russia.


15	Ivan I increased the power of Muscovy by all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	collecting tribute for the Mongols from the other Russians.
		B)	forcing Novgorod to submit and annexing it and its territories.
		C)	encouraging the primate of Russia to make Moscow his residence.
		D)	extending its territory along the Moscow River and to the north.


16	All of the following problems beset the Papacy in the thirteenth century EXCEPT
		A)	financial pressures induced it to adopt corrupt measures to raise money that then discredited it.
		B)	the Catholic cults of holy relics were attacked by crusaders influenced by Byzantine iconoclasm.
		C)	Clement V and his successors' residence at Avignon reduced its credibility as an independent voice.
		D)	the revocation of Boniface VIII's Unam Sanctam signified the waxing strength of secular rulers.


17	The Church attempted to deal with lay piety by
		A)	reforming itself in order to reassert its spiritual leadership.
		B)	suppressing all unsanctioned lay religiosity as heresy.
		C)	opening the Church hierarchy to spiritually inspired laymen.
		D)	tolerating it and trying to channel it into approved institutions.


18	Medieval philosophers contributed to modern science in all of the following ways EXCEPT
		A)	demonstrating that celestial bodies must be made of the same matter as earth.
		B)	suggesting that the movement of the planets could be better explained by assuming the earth is in motion.
		C)	formulating the principal that a simple explanation is superior to a complex one.
		D)	devising the experimental method in which an hypothesis is subjected to empirical tests.

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