Late Middle Ages

What did the Magna Carta do?

• extended property rights to serfs and peasants

• made the king subject to the rule of law

• organized barons into a parliament

• restored and organized English common law

What killed a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s?

• bubonic plague

• invasion of the Turks

• religious persecution

• wars among kingdoms

Against what group of people did Pope Urban II declare the Crusades?

• heretics

• Jews

• Muslims

• renegades

Which choice correctly shows the social order under feudalism?

• king, clergy, peasants & serfs, knights

• king, knights, clergy, serfs

• king, nobles, knights, peasants & serfs

• king, knights, nobles, peasants & serfs

What did the conflict between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII signify?

• competition for influence between Christianity and Islam

• contest for power between kings and popes

• struggle for control between monarchy and barons

• war for supremacy between European kingdoms

What dominated the lives of people in the Middle Ages?

• the Roman Catholic Church

• the kings

• the nobles

• the Magna Carta

What was a series of wars by Christian armies to reclaim the Holy Land?

• Reconquista

• Inquisition

• Hundred Years' War

• Crusades

Which group made up the largest class of people under feudalism?

• clergy and lords

• merchants and artisans

• vassals and knights

• peasants and serfs

In what way did the Magna Carta mark a step toward developing democracy?

• It set up a strong monarchy in England.

• It abolished the parliament in England.

• It made the king subject to the laws and limited his authority.

• It created the English Bill of Rights

What was the role of the manor during the Middle Ages?

• to set up a centralized government

• to make sure everyone on the manor lived in a sturdy house

• to set up a system of laws for everyone to follow

• to provide everything the people living on the manor needed