In the late 1200s, Marco Polo visited the court of
Khubilai Khan
Which of the following was not a problem faced by the late Byzantine empire?
the inability of leaders to get the population to practice Christianity
In 962 CE, Pope John XII presented the imperial crown to
Otto of Saxony
In the high middle ages, the state that seemed to have to most potential to re-create centralized, imperial rule was
the Holy Roman Empire
The single biggest obstacle to the rise of a powerful Holy Roman Empire was
an ongoing conflict with the papacy
The quip that the Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" is attributed to
Voltaire
In 987, the French nobles chose which of the following men as their king?
High Capet
Hugh Capet was crowned King of France in 987
but it took centuries for the French kings to build a powerful, centralized state
Which of the following states developed the most centralized political structure in its early stages?
England
In 1066, William of Normandy conquered
England
In Italy, the political structure was marked by
a series of city-states and principalities
The reconquest of lang from the Muslims occurred in
the Iberian peninsula
Which of the following factors does NOT help explain the increased agricultural production of the high middle ages?
government financial support
By the year 1300. the population of Europe had risen to around
79 million
The high middle ages witnessed
a resurgence of urbanization
The revival of urban society was most pronounced in
Italy
The Hanseatic League was a trading network that operated in the
North Sea and Baltic Sea
The phrase usually associated with the medieval social structure is
those who pray, those who fight, and those who work
The guilds of the high middle ages
almost always admitted women as members
Central to the philosophy of the high middle ages was the rediscovery of
Aristotle
St. Thomas Aquinas
believed that it was possible to prove rationally that God exists
During the high middle ages, the most popular saint was
the Virgin Mary
The Dominicans and Franciscans
attacked materialism and allowed no personal possessions
Who founded the orders of mendicants?
St. Francis and St. Dominic
The Waldensians
advocated modest and simple lives
Newfoundland was discovered around the year 1000 CE by the Scandinavian seafarer
Leif Ericsson
The reconquista occurred in
Spain
Which of the following was NOT a crusading order?
Franciscans
During the eleventh century, which of the following locations was captured from Muslims?
Sicily
The last surviving Islamic outpost in Spain was
Granada
Pope Urban II
launched the crusades in 1095
The only crusade that recaptured Jerusalem was the
first crusade
Jerusalem was captured in 1187 by
Saladin
Which of the following was a consequence of the fourth crusade?
A new spirit of cooperation between Constantinople and western Europe
Which of the following fell to the Turks in 1144
Edessa
The crusades
increased trade between the eastern and western Mediterranean