Wars & Monarchies
This long conflict between England and France lasted from 1337 to 1453.
A - The Peasants' Revolt
B - The Reformation
C - The Hundred Years' War
C - The Hundred Years' War
This city was the Byzantine Empire’s capital and became the Ottoman capital after its capture.
A - Florence, later Rome
B - Constantinople, later Instanbul
C - Orleans, later Paris
B - Constantinople, later Instanbul
This Portuguese prince funded voyages, navigation training, shipbuilding, and mapmaking.
A - Henry the Navigator
B - Vasco da Gama
C - Christopher Columbus
A - Prince Henry the Navigator
This German inventor developed a practical movable-type printing press in Mainz around 1450.
A - Erasmus
B - Martin Luther
C - Johannes Gutenberg
C - Johannes Gutenberg
This system had peasants working on a lord’s land in exchange for protection and a place to live.
A - The encomienda system
B - Manorialism
C - Humanism
B - Manorialism
This French teenager helped lift the Siege of Orléans in 1429.
A - Joan of Arc
B - Queen Isabella
C - Catherine de' Medici
A - Joan of Arc
This empire continued in the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the western part fell.
A - The Ottoman Empire
B - The Persian Empire
C - The Byzantine Empire
C - The Byzantine Empire
This Dutch Christian humanist used satire to criticize Church corruption and hoped for reform from within the Church.
A - Martin Luther
B - Erasmus
C - Thomas More
B - Erasmus
These reusable individual letters or symbols could be arranged to print different pages.
A - Movable Type
B - Pamphlets
C - An astrolabe
A - Movable Type
This term means the ability to move up or down in social class or status.
A - Mortality rate
B - Patronage
C - Social mobility
C - Social mobility
This 1420 agreement declared that the English king would inherit the French throne.
A - Treaty of Tordesillas
B - Treaty of Troyes
C - The Statute of Laborers
B - Treaty of Troyes
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453 under Sultan Mehmed II.
A - The Ottoman Empire
B - The Byzantine Empire
C - The Roman Empire
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire between 1519 and 1521.
A - Francisco Pizarro
B - Vasco da Gama
C - Hernán Cortés
C - Hernán Cortés
This machine used ink and pressure to make many copies of written material quickly.
A - A caravel
B - The printing press
C - An astrolabe
B - The printing press
This 1351 English law tried to hold wages near earlier levels and restrict workers’ choices.
A - The Statute of Laborers
B - The Treaty of Troyes
C - The Act of Supremacy
A - The Statute of Laborers
These permanent forces were trained and ready to fight even during peacetime.
A - City-States
B - Encomienda systems
C - Standning armies
C - Standing armies
This military tactic surrounds a city or fort to prevent people from entering or leaving.
A - A standing army
B - A siege
C - A city-state
B - A siege
This Portuguese explorer reached the Indian Ocean by sailing around Africa in 1498.
A - Vasco da Gama
B - Prince Henry the Navigator
C - Christopher Columbus
A - Vasco da Gama
These short, inexpensive printed works helped Luther’s arguments spread quickly.
A - Treaties
B - Indulgences
C - Pamphlets
C - Pamphlets
This 1381 uprising in England grew from anger over labor restrictions, low wages, feudal obligations, and taxes.
A - The Hundred Years' War
B - The Peasants' Revolt
C - The Reformation
This term describes a government in which most power and decision-making are controlled by one central leader or government.
A - A centralized government
B - A city-state
C - A feudal system
A - A centralized government
After Constantinople fell, this major Christian church was converted into a mosque.
A - The Church of St. Peter
B - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
C - Hagia Sophia
C - Hagia Sophia
This Florentine banking family used its wealth and influence to support Renaissance culture.
A - The Tudors
B - The Medici
C - The Habsburgs
B - The Medici
This invention helped Renaissance ideas travel across Europe and enabled reformers to spread criticism of the Church.
A - The printing press
B - The caravel
C - The astrolabe
A - The printing press
This broad social and economic system organized relationships between lords, vassals, and peasants.
A - Manorialism
B - A centralized government
C - Feudalism
C - Feudalism