Unit 3:Medieval Rebuilding and Reconsolidation Review

An Italian Dominican priest, philosopher and theologian of the Roman Catholic Church who deeply influenced Western philosophy.

• pope

• Aquinas, St. Thomas

• William of Ockham

• Peter Damian

Answer explanation

He is noted for blending ancient Greek thought with the Christian thought of his own time.

The Christian church that traces its history to Jesus Christ and the Apostles and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilization.

• monasteries

• Roman Catholicism

• gothic cathedral

• Eastern Orthodox

Answer explanation

Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity.

The formal break came in 1054, when the papacy and the patriarchy of Constantinople clashed over __________ and excommunicated each other.

Answer explanation

This led to the division of Christianity into two churches—the western branch became the Roman Catholic Church and the eastern branch the Orthodox Church.

The________ and most influential members of society commissioned cathedrals, churches, sculpture, painting, textiles, manuscripts, jewelry, and ritual items from artists.

Thomas Aquinas also known as Tommaso d'Aquino (1225-1274), was an Italian Dominican friar and _________________.

What was the lord’s estate in feudal Europe called?

• Three-field system

• Feudalism

• Guilds

• Manor

A system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted (lay fallow).

• Triangular-field system

• Three-field system

• Pyramidal-field system

• Triple-field system

Answer explanation

The three-field system had great advantages. First, it increased the amount of land that could be planted each year. Second, it protected farmers from starvation if one of the crops failed.

One of the first and most famous Europeans to travel to Asia during the Middle Ages; traveled farther than any of his predecessors during his 24-year journey along the Silk Road.

• Saladin

• Ibn Battuta

• Mansa Musa

• Marco Polo

Answer explanation

Reached China and Mongolia, where he became a confidant of Kublai Khan.

A Chinese dynasty that lasted from A.D. 618 - 907 and brought forth a period of peace and prosperity referred to as a Golden Age. This dynasty restored order to China after the earlier Hun invasions that brought about a collapse. This dynasty was also noted for its expansion into Korea, Manchuria and parts of Central Asia, restoring Confucian texts and civil service exams, establishing a census, and building public works.

• Xia Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

• Song Dynasty

• Tang Dynasty

Located in China, the longest canal or artificial river in the world.

• Panama Canal

• Suzhou Canal

• Grand Canal

• The Nile River