Quiz on Early Middle Ages

Who were the most powerful Germanic people in the early Middle Ages?

• Vikings

• Franks

• Saxons

• Normans

What was the first royal line of the Franks?

• Carolingian House

• Merovingian House

• Capetian House

• Plantagenet House

Who was known as "Charles the Great"?

• Alfred the Great

• Charlemagne

• William the Conqueror

• Otto the Great

Which tribes from Scandinavia were feared invaders in medieval times?

• Franks

• Saxons

• Vikings

• Normans

What is the name of the German empire because of its alliance with the Roman Catholic Church?

• Byzantine Empire

• Holy Roman Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Carolingian Empire

Who was the ruler of the important Saxon kingdom of Wessex?

• Charlemagne

• Alfred the Great

• William the Conqueror

• Otto the Great

What is a Domesday Book?

• A book of laws

• A survey of property taken in England

• A religious text

• A collection of poems

What is the symbolic act by which a lord gave to the vassal the right to use a fief?

• Investiture

• Chivalry

• Feudalism

• Lay Investiture

What is the Peace of God?

• A treaty between kingdoms

• A church forbade the pillage of its property

• A peace agreement between nobles

• A law protecting merchants

What is the Petrine Theory?

• The belief in the divine right of kings

• The theory that Christ made Peter the first pope

• The idea of predestination

• The concept of original sin