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100
In these expeditions, Medieval Christian warriors sought to take control of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
100
This well-regarded Muslim leader fought Crusaders in the Holy Land during the 1100s.
Who is Saladin?
100
This change in the way Europeans did business changed life during the Middle Ages.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
100
This group of people in the same occupation worked to improve the economic and social conditions of its members.
What is a guild?
100
Conquering this city was the purported goal of the Crusades.
Where is Jerusalem?
200
This document guaranteed basic political rights in England and was presented to King John by the nobles.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
This Norman took over England in 1066.
Who is William the Conqueror?
200
This was the benefit of the three-field system.
What is increased food production?
200
Edward I called together wealthy citizens and knights from across his kingdom to form this kind of legislative body in 1295.
What is a parliament?
200
This major Christian-ruled city felt threatened by nearby Seljuk Turks and asked the Pope for military assistance.
Where is Constantinople?
300
This deadly disease spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century and killed millions of people.
What is the bubonic plague or the Black Death?
300
She led the French to victory against the English in the 1420s.
Who is Joan of Arc?
300
During the Hundred Years' War, various claimants argued over the throne of this kingdom.
What is France?
300
People from this social class found new opportunities in towns and cities during the later Middle Ages.
What are serfs?
300
Popes lived in this French city for 69 years.
Where is Avignon?
400
By the end of the Middle Ages, a few poets were writing in this type of language rather than in Latin.
What is the vernacular?
400
This English king sent royal judges to every part of England and introduced the use of juries in English courts.
Who is Henry II?
400
During the Great Schism, two groups of Roman Catholics argued about this.
Who is the pope?
400
This assembly of representatives from all three social classes was established in France during the Middle Ages.
What are the Estates-General?
400
In the 1100s, Europeans finally gained access to ancient Greek science and mathematics through Jewish and Muslim scholars in this country.
Where is Spain?
500
This was a campaign by Christian leaders to drive Muslims out of Spain.
What is the Reconquista?
500
This Christian scholar argued that all religious truths could be proved by logical arguments.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
500
Catholic reformers identified these problems in the church during the Middle Ages? (At least two.)
What are noncelibate priests, simony, or lay investiture?
500
This Spanish religious court prosecuted suspected heretics during the 1400s.
What is the Inquisition?
500
A terrible disease likely originated in this part of Asia before spreading through China and into Europe.
Where is Mongolia?
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