Medieval Europe Test Review

What mountains are found just to the North of Italy?

• Urals

• Carpathian

• Alps

What mountains divide Europe and Russia?

• Carpathian

• Ural

• Pyrenees

• Appalachians

Who won the Battle of Hastings?

• Harold Godwinson

• William the Conqueror

• Justinian

• Saladin

Select all of these that are true about William the Conqueror and his conquest of England.

• He built Norman style castles in England.

• The conquest led to the merging of Norman and Anglo-Saxon culture.

• He created the Domesday Book.(a census of England for tax purposes)

• He brought the influence of French language to England.

• He forced the people of England to submit to his rule.

What is Feudalism?

• The farming community that people lived on during Medieval Europe.

• The political/social system in which a vassal serves a lord.

What is a vassal?

• A lower ranking noble that serves a lord.

• A peasant that serves a lord.

• A peasant that is tied to the land.

• A higher ranking noble.

What is a manor?

• A farming community in medieval Europe that nobles ran and peasants worked.

• The political/social system in which a vassal serves a lord.

The protection that nobles provided during medieval Europe eventually allowed for the development of what?

• The creation of compasses and mosaics

• Towns, trade, and governments

• Farming and the Black Plague

Select all that is true about Charlemagne.

• He contributed to the creation of the Holy Roman Empire and united much of Western Europe under his rule.

• He contributed to the spread of Christianity.

• He valued education on his empire.

• He encouraged Feudalism in Europe by giving land to nobles who served him.

• He was the king of England.

Which of these was the strongest Germanic tribe that formed an empire in was is today Germany? (The Germanic group of Charlemagne)

• Anglo-Saxons

• Normans

• Osogoths

• Franks