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100

Although the English won most of the battles, the French won the Hundred Years’ War.

Answer: What is true?


100

Spanish Muslims were known by this name.

Answer: Who were the Moors?


100

These rulers drove the Moors out of Granada and sponsored Christopher Columbus in 1492.

Answer: Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?


100

This thinker used logical arguments to support the existence of God.

Answer: Who was Anselm?


100

The Italian word banca, meaning this, is the origin of the word “bank.”

Answer: What is bench?


200

The Golden Bull established the Holy Roman Empire.

Answer: What is false?


200

The exchange of goods for other goods is called this.

Answer: What is barter?


200

This ruler founded the Tudor dynasty after the Wars of the Roses.

Answer: Who was Henry VII?


200

This scholar was known as the “Prince of the Schoolmen.”

Answer: Who was Thomas Aquinas?


200

Which of the following did NOT encourage the revival of trade in medieval Europe?

Answer: What is Unam Sanctam?


300

King Louis IX was also known as “Saint Louis.”

Answer: What is true?


300

This English author wrote The Canterbury Tales.

Answer: Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?


300

This assembly included representatives of the clergy, nobility, and townspeople in France.

Answer: What was the Estates-General?


300

This writer described an imaginary journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise.

Answer: Who was Dante?


300

Near the end of the Middle Ages, these institutions became the main centers of learning.

Answer: What are universities?


400

A craft guild provided a monopoly of a town’s trade for merchants.

Answer: What is false?


400

This English document established the principle that the king’s power is limited.

Answer: What is the Magna Carta?


400

This pope was humiliated by Philip IV of France.

Answer: Who was Boniface VIII?


400

This period occurred when the papacy did not reside in Rome.

Answer: What was the Babylonian Captivity?


400

This is the correct order of members in a craft guild, from lowest to highest.

Answer: What is apprentice, journeyman, master?


500

Serfs were allowed to produce extra goods and sell them for profit at markets.

Answer: What is true?

500

This Spanish effort sought to drive the Moors out of Spain.

Answer: What is the Reconquista?

500

This pope represented the height of papal power during the Middle Ages.

Answer: Who was Innocent III?

500

This movement sought to organize and explain Christian doctrine using reason and faith.

Answer: What is Scholasticism?

500

The common spoken language of a country is called this.

Answer: What is the vernacular?

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