Chp. 14 Sec. 3 & 4 Quiz

1. King Henry II would send __________ __________to every part of England once a year to collect taxes, settle lawsuits and punish crimes.

(a)  

1. Over the centuries, case by case, the rulings of England's royal judges formed a unified body of law that became known as ___________ _______.  

(a)  

1. In the year 1215 the nobles revolted against the English King John, nicknamed John the Softsword, and they made him agree to a document guaranteeing certain basic political rights to the citizens, it was called the ________ _______.

(a)  

Another important step toward democratic government came during the rule of King Edward I.  When it was time to raise taxes to fund a war, King Edward assembled two burgesses (citizens of wealth) from every borough and two knights from every county to serve as a (a)   or legislative group.

1. In 1300 Pope Boniface VII tried to enforce papal authority on king Philip IV of France...the Pope gave the King an official document that said Kings must always obey (a)   .  King Philip had the pope held prisoner for his actions. Never again would the pope be able to force kings to obey them.

An Englishman named ​ (a)   preached that ​ (b)   was the true head of the church and not the Pope. Wycliffe helped spread the ideas of living a christian life by inspiring an English translation of the New Testament of the ​ (c)   .  

• John Wycliffe
• Jesus Christ
• Bible
• William Shakespeare
• Henry VIII
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Martin Luther
• King Arthur

1. Jan Hus was a professor that taught that the authority of the ​ (a)   was higher than that of a pope.  Hus was ​ (b)   and seized by Church leaders and tried as a heretic and then ​ (c)   at the stake in 1415.

• Bible
• excommunicated
• Burned
• Gods
• Stabbed

1. During the 1300s an ​ (a)   struck parts of Asia, North Africa, and Europe.  ​ (b)   of the population of Europe and millions more in Asia and Africa died from this deadly disease called the ​ (c)   .  The cause of the plague is still unsure but it is thought to have been a disease in 2 forms, one was the ​ (d)   spread by fleas that lived on rats and the other a ​ (e)   spread through the air through coughs and sneezes.

• epidemic
• 1/3
• Black Death
• Bubonic Plague
• Pneumonic Plague
• Spanish Flu
• Yellow Fever
• Smallpox
• Cholera
• Malaria

1. The plague spread when (a)     infested with fleas carrying the disease made their way onto ships.  The fleas would bite the humans and as the ships traveled around, so did the plague.

1. The English introduced the ​ (a)   and demonstrated its power.  The English would send thousands of arrows at the French, it would unhorse the ​ (b)   who then laid helpless in their heavy armor and the English used long ​ (c)   to run in and slaughter the French.

• longbow
• Knights
• knives
• sword
• spear
• axes
• shields
• daggers