The Kings
Which invading group settled in Hungary and repeatedly raided central Europe
A. Vikings
B. Magyars
C. Franks
D. Moors
Who is Magyars?
Which duty made vassals essential to feudal lords?
A. Church service
B. Paying tribes
C. Military loyalty
D. Collecting rent
What is military loyalty?
What made people depend on monks and priests?
A. They built castles
B. They administered sacraments
C. They ran feudal courts
D. They led trade fairs
What is they administered sacraments?
Which dynasty strengthened French royal authority beginning in 987
A. Carolingian
B. Capetian
C. Saxon
D. Norman
Who is Capetian?
Which group benefited politically from the early crusades?
A. Serfs
B. Popes
C. Guilds
D. Vikings
Who is Popes?
What did the Treaty of Verdun do?
A. United Charlemagne's empire
B. Split the empire into three parts
C. Ended feudalisms
D. Stopped Viking and Magyar raids
What is split the empire into three parts?
What made serfs different from regular peasants in the feudal system?
A. Serfs could own their own land
B. Sercs were bound to the land anc could not leae without permioosns
C. Serfs served as knights for the land
D. Serfs collected razes from towns
What is Serfs were bound to the land and could not leave without permission ?
Why did church courts compete with royal courts?
A. They handled issues like marriage, wills, and morals
B. They allowed nobles to elect bishops
C. They controlled trade agreements
D. They organized the crusades
What is they handled issues like marriage, wills, and morals?
Which reform helped Henry II centralize English power?
A. Ending feudal contracts
B. Creating common law
C. Building monasteries
D. Forming guilds
What is creating common law?
Which economic change from the crusades MOST directly reduced the influence of feudal lords?
A. Lords gained new estates overseas
B. Long distance trade revived, empowering kings intead
C. Serfs became wealthy through trade
D. Nobles created their own trade guilds
What is long distance trade revived, empowering kings instead?
Which factor MOST weakened early kings after Charlemagne's death?
A. Growth of cities
B. Treaty of Verdun signed
C. Rise of cathedrals
D. Decline of feudalism
What is Treaty of Verdun signed?
Why did feudal lords benefit from the rise of manorialism?
A. Manors depended on the kings taxes
B. Manors were self sufficient economic systems
C. Manors were controlled by monasteries
D. Manors were open markets
What is Manors were self sufficient economic systems?
Which punishment allowed the pope to cut off a kingdom from the church?
A. Crusade
B. Excommunication
C. Interdict
D. Confessions ban
What is interdict?
Why did common law increase the power of the English kings?
A. It made all nobles equal
B. It united the kingdom under one legal system
C. It forced church courts to close
D. It allowed knights to rule towns
What is it united the kingdom under one legal system?
Why did kings gain power during and after the crusades?
A. They formed guilds
B. Increased trade > increased taxes
C. They allied with serfs
D. They were crowned by popes
What is increased trade > increased taxes
Why did people in the Early Middle Ages become more rural and isolated?
A. Fear of invasions disrupted trade and urban life
B. Kings forced people to leave towns
C. Church banned urban living
D. Climate change
What is fear of invasions disrupted trade and urban life?
which innovation increased agricultural productivity and stregthened fuedal stability?
A. Horse collar and iron plow
B. Stone castles
C. Windmills for warfare
D. Church tithe system
What is Horse collar and iron plow?
Which reform reduced secular control over the church?
A. Lay investiture allowed
B. Simony became legal
C. Priests could marry
D. Pope Gregory VII banned lay investiture
What is Pope Gregory VII banned lay investiture?
Why did King John face rebellion from English nobles?
A. He refused to join the crusades
B. He imposed taxes and abused power
C. He banned feudalism
D. He married a French princess
What is he imposed taxes and abused power?
Which long term effect damaged the church's political authority?
A. Creation of monasteries
B. Rise of guilds
C. Failure of later crusades
D. Success of the first crusade
What is failure of later crusades?
Charlemagne's coronation in 800 symbolically united what three traditions?
A. Roman, Byzantine, Islamic
B. Germanic, Feudal, Viking
C. Roman, Christian, Germanic
D. Christian, Persian, Greek
What is Roman, Christian, Germanic?
Which relationship BEST explains feudal power?
A. Peasants granting lands to kings
B. Knights ruling over bishops
C. Lords offering protection in exchange for service
D. Merchants supporting royal armies
What is lords offering protection in exchange for service?
Why did the church have greater authority then any king in the High Middle Ages?
A. It controlled trade
B. It controlled salvation and law
C. It commanded the largest armies
D. It collected taxes
What is it controlled salvation and law?
Which event showed that monarchs could challenge the churchs politcal power?
A. Battle of Hastings
B. The crusades
C. Philip IV's conflict with Pope Boniface VIII
D. Norman conquest
What is Philip IV's conflict with Pope Boniface VIII?
How did Crusades weaken feudalism?
A. kings gave lands to the lords
B. Many lords died without heirs
C. Knights refused to fight
D. Peasants took over the church
What is many lords died without heirs?