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The use of the padded collar allowed peasants to use horses and work more, which helped increase agricultural production. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Population growth led to environmental problems such as air pollution and poor water quality. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Communes were a democratic form of city government in which commoners made decisions and enjoyed political power and control. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Jews were not permitted to settle in most medieval towns and were prohibited from participating in money-lending activities. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Men replaced female weavers in cloth-making as the trade in textiles expanded. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The stained glass windows of gothic churches, made with lead webs, provided crucial support for the new arches. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Universities arose out of guild organizations designed to protect both masters and townspeople from rowdy and violent students. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Dialectic was a form of reasoning that used logic and questioning to explore issues. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Bernard of Clairvaux used Aristotle’s ideas to study god with the use of reason. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Women had traditionally worked as healers but with the advent of university training for medicine, women were excluded from the profession. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By the thirteenth century, the castles of nobles were designed as much for comfort as for defense. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The church tried to prohibit jousts, which often resulted in fatal injuries, but the nobles resisted these efforts. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Women played a crucial role in Chansons de geste, often asserting their needs and demands to male characters. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The conquest of England by William the Conqueror made the English king a vassal of the French king. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, assuring his successors of the right to tax their subjects without the consent of the nobility or Parliament. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The capture of Jerusalem by King Alfonso in 1085 led to the recovery of Greek learning among European scholars. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Louis IX was proclaimed a saint by the church and eventually died while on crusade. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Italian city-states refused to accept the authority of German emperors and as a result, posed a constant obstacle to a consolidated German empire. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When Henry IV refused to submit to the authority of the papacy on the issue of investiture, Pope Gregory VII excommunicated him. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The crusader principalities served as bases for the Christianization and Europeanizing of Muslims. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The focus of the crusades shifted from the Holy Land to enemies within Christendom, such as Jews and Byzantines. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Franciscans and Dominicans refused to submit to the authority of the pope, but their popularity was so great that the pope did not dare declare them heretics. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The Albigensians criticized the Christian belief that the material world was good, and as a result, were massacred by crusaders. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Knights Templars were atheistic mercenaries hired by the Pope to fight the Muslims in the Holy Lands. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Hanseatic League, formed in the late thirteenth century, was a military coalition of German principalities whose express goal was to invade and colonize Flanders. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Jews were excluded from the commercial banking practice of money-lending during the High Middle Ages. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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