Medieval General Knowledge
Black Death and Hundred Years War
Government and Ideas
Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
100

What is the name of kingdom that inherited the title of 'Roman Emperor' in the year 800?

The Frankish Kingdom

100

What animal carried the plague and gave it to humans?

Fleas

100

Who was the 'worst' king of of England who was made to sign Magna Carta?

John II

100

Name a technique that Renaissance artists started to employ regularly in their paintings.

Perspective

New Colours

Realism

New Themes (non-Christian influences)

100

Which came first, the Italian or the Northern Renaissance?

Italian

200

Vikings did NOT have these on their hats

Horns

200

Roughly what percent of the population of Europe did the Black Death kill?

33-66% (anything in that range)

200

The philosophy that valued human knowledge and questioned the power of existing social systems in the 14th century is called?

Humanism

200

The Italian Renaissance looked back to what empire for inspiration in art, architecture, and literature?

The Roman Empire

200

Name the famous English playwright who put his plays on at The Globe in London?

William Shakespeare

300

Who were the two main leaders against each other during the Third Crusade?

Richard the Lionheart of England and Saladin

300

What year did the Black Death reach Europe?

1347

300

What was a person who held a fief from a lord called?

A vassal

300

What organisation did many humanists dislike while still being part of?

The Catholic Church

300

Which profession began advancing the study of anatomy?

Artists, they wanted to be able to draw human figures better

400

If a knight was very honourable, a great warrior, and good to other nobles, he would be described as ______?

Chivalrous

Having chivalry

400

Who was the 'Maid of Orleans' who helped the French start winning the Hundred Years War?

Joan of Arc

400

England finished its journey to Constitutional Monarchy with the signing of what document in 1689?

The Bill of Rights

400

What crime did people who ended up in the 9th circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno (the lowest level) commit?

Treachery or Betrayal

400

How did Leonardo di Vinci improve the design of Roman chariots?

He put a big spinning set of blades on the front to chop people up.

500

What year did the First Crusade capture Jerusalem?

1099

500

How many years was the Hundred Years War?

116 years

500

The city states of Florence and Milan both flipped between which two types of government?

Oligarchy and Aristocracy

500

Who was Lisa in 'The Mona Lisa' and when did she get her painting?

Lisa del Giocondo was the wife of a merchant, and she never received it. Leonardo either never finished it or never gave it up.

500

What book did Sir Thomas Moore write in a small district in London, the title of which translates in English to 'No place'?

Utopia

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