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In the investiture contest, the winner was |
| | A) | Otto I. |
| | B) | Henry IV. |
| | C) | Gregory VII. |
| | D) | Frederick Barbarossa. |
| | E) | Hugh Capet. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" because |
| | A) | the emperors were not crowned by the popes. |
| | B) | the Byzantine emperors did not acknowledge the Holy Roman Empire. |
| | C) | the people who lived there did not practice Christianity. |
| | D) | it did not restore imperial unity to western Europe. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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During the high middle ages, the Normans |
| | A) | conquered England in 1066. |
| | B) | built a tightly centralized state. |
| | C) | retained title to lands in Normandy. |
| | D) | took southern Italy from Byzantine and Muslim rulers. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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Which of the following did not contribute to the expansion of agricultural productivity in Europe during the high middle ages? |
| | A) | population pressure |
| | B) | use of the horseshoe and horse collar |
| | C) | increased cultivation of beans |
| | D) | the shift from horses to oxen |
| | E) | clearing of forests and draining of swamps |
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According to Pegolotti, |
| | A) | European long-distance trade with China was perfectly safe. |
| | B) | local lords always robbed traveling merchants. |
| | C) | by using paper money in China, Europeans paid higher prices for their goods. |
| | D) | traders should try to bargain for the cheapest guide. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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The Hanseatic League was |
| | A) | known for its determination to reconquer Spain and wrest it from Muslim control. |
| | B) | responsible for curbing the expansion of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| | C) | an association of trading cities of northern Europe. |
| | D) | a military religious order. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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In medieval Europe, the three estates meant |
| | A) | England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
| | B) | the three royal estates of the Capetian kings. |
| | C) | the three social classes. |
| | D) | the big three city-states in north Italy. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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During the high middle ages the European nobility |
| | A) | lost a great deal of power. |
| | B) | practiced the code of chivalry. |
| | C) | frequently converted to Islam. |
| | D) | gradually became a bureaucratic class. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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During the high middle ages, towns and cities increasingly broke with the prevailing three-estates system because |
| | A) | their citizens demanded autonomy from local lords. |
| | B) | unlike feudal manors, cities were egalitarian societies. |
| | C) | unlike the organization of the workforce on feudal manors, women became part of the working class in cities. |
| | D) | townspeople included all three estates. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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Guilds of European cities and towns could do all of the following except |
| | A) | regulate the production and sale of goods. |
| | B) | administer justice on behalf of the city government. |
| | C) | determine the prices at which members had to sell their products. |
| | D) | build large halls in the cities. |
| | E) | regulate the entry of new workers into their groups. |
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Niccolo and Maffeo Polo brought diplomatic letters from the pope to Khubilai Khan in the 1270s. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Successive popes welcomed the growth of the Holy Roman Empire because they wanted to use it to expand Catholicism. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Capetians' power base was located in Normandy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By the late thirteenth century, Christian state such as Aragon and Castile had conquered all of Muslim Spain. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Despite new technologies and more intensive farming, the population of Europe remained largely static between 800 and 1300. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Curricula of cathedral schools concentrated on |
| | A) | liberal arts. |
| | B) | theology. |
| | C) | law and medicine. |
| | D) | the writings of Aquinas. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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During the high middle ages, European scholars' rediscovery of Aristotle's work led to |
| | A) | the growing dynamism of popular heresies. |
| | B) | the development of scholasticism. |
| | C) | the rise of the Dominicans and Franciscans. |
| | D) | a rejection of the Latin classics. |
| | E) | a decline in Christian belief. |
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The most famous scholastic theologian was |
| | A) | Eucharist. |
| | B) | St. Francis. |
| | C) | St. Thomas Aquinas. |
| | D) | Saladin. |
| | E) | St. Dominic. |
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Christians' devotion to saints was very much like |
| | A) | the Bantu people's devotion to the creator god. |
| | B) | Buddhists' devotion to Bodhisattvas. |
| | C) | Muslims' devotion to Mecca. |
| | D) | the Jews' devotion to the Torah. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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Which of the following did not belong to the popular heresies of medieval Europe? |
| | A) | Waldensians |
| | B) | Cathars |
| | C) | Albigensians |
| | D) | mendicants. |
| | E) | all of the above were heresies |
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The Waldensians were |
| | A) | a new order in the Catholic Church. |
| | B) | a group of crusading knights. |
| | C) | a religious group that rejected the Catholic Church. |
| | D) | mendicants who helped pilgrims get to Jerusalem. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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Vinland was |
| | A) | conquered by the Teutonic Knights. |
| | B) | re-conquered by European crusaders. |
| | C) | colonized by Scandinavian seafarers. |
| | D) | continuously occupied until the present day. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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The re-conquest of Sicily from the Muslims was accomplished by |
| | A) | Byzantine soldiers. |
| | B) | Franciscans. |
| | C) | Norman warriors. |
| | D) | Waldensians. |
| | E) | none of the above |
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The term reconquista specifically referred to |
| | A) | the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims. |
| | B) | the reconquest of Sicily from the Muslims. |
| | C) | the recapture of Palestine. |
| | D) | the colonies in Greenland. |
| | E) | the Albigensian crusade. |
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Which one of the following statements does not describe the crusades? |
| | A) | The campaigns showed European military superiority to Muslim armies. |
| | B) | Saladin recaptured Jerusalem in 1187. |
| | C) | The crusaders traded eagerly with Muslim merchants in the eastern Mediterranean. |
| | D) | The crusaders brought many Muslim ideas back to Europe with them. |
| | E) | The crusaders introduced to Europe new agricultural products they learned about from the Muslims. |
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Universities first appeared in Europe in the twelfth century when students and teachers organized academic guilds. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Scholasticism sought to reconcile Christianity with logical Greek thought. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Popular piety in the high middle ages centered largely on asceticism. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The most popular saint during the high middle ages was St. Simeone the Stylite. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Peter the Hermit's crusade captured Jerusalem in 1096. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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