Western Civilization To 1648 (HIST-1500) Ch. 10

Texts like Marco Polo's "Description of the World":

Long-distance trade in the thirteenth century usually occurred:

Linguistically and ethically, the Mongols were most closely related to the:

The leader who united the Mongol tribes and began the conquest of China was named:

In the early twelfth century, Genghis Khan quickly built up a large military force by:

The expression "Mongol horde" actually comes from the:

In the thirteenth century, Moscow became an important center because:

After conquering territory in what is now Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, and Anatolia, the Mongols who controlled this territory, called the Ilkhanate, converted to:

Mongol governance was directed toward:

For Europeans, the most important consequence of the Mongol conquests was:

Why did the "Pax Mongolica" come to an end?

After the 1340s, the economy of Europe was marked by:

Increasing European interest in African gold was driven by:

Parallel to the interest in the gold trade in Europe, several entrepreneurial empires were established by Europeans. Among the first was that created by the:

The first European colonies established outside of Europe geographically were in the:

The Vikings did not permanently colonize the eastern coast of North America in part because:

The Norse colony in Greenland ceased to exist during the fourteenth century because:

The commerce that occurred as a result of the "Pax Mongolica" was facilitated by the introduction of:

Time became standardized in the fourteenth century due to:

The thirteenth century had witnessed the development of the philosophical belief that the secular and spiritual worlds were rational, organized, and comprehensible to human beings. In the fourteenth century, William of Ockham:

The nominalist distinction between reason's ability to understand the natural world and its inability to understand the divine world encouraged people to:

European art of the thirteenth century reflected a renewed interest in:

A fresco painting is essentially a(n):

The medieval painter Giotto is remembered especially because he:

Dante's "Divine Comedy" depicts the poet's mythical journey through:

Dante's choice to write much of his work in Italian:

Dante's "Divine Comedy" represents:

As the power of the papacy weakened after 1250, popular piety:

By the mid-thirteenth century, the pope called some Crusades in order to:

King Philip IV of France's ability to move Pope Clement V's court to Avignon demonstrates the:

The name "The Babylonian Captivity" for the Avignon papacy references the:

During the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the fourteenth century, the papacy was:

______ was not a sacrament in the medieval Roman Catholic Church.

Crusading can be linked to an extreme form of the sacrament of:

The medieval doctrine of transubstantiation taught that:

Meister Eckhart taught that:

Sovereignty can be defined as:

Sovereignty implies governmental control over:

Sovereignty is won by:

Although Louis IX's attempts at crusading were failures, they cemented his reputation as a:

Philip IV's decision to suppress the Knights Templar and exile Jews from France was driven by:

Edward made the territory of ______ a settler colony of England.

The Stone of Destiny was taken to Westminster Abbey by Edward I:

A fundamental source of conflict in the Hundred Years' War was that:

In the fourteenth century, Edward II argued that he was the legitimate heir of France based on a closer relationship to Philip IV of France than that of the new Valois king because:

The Seven Years' Famine occurred because:

Aside from starvation, the most devastating effect of the Great Famine was the:

The Black Death appears to have originated in:

Bubonic Plague is spread by:

The Black Death probably eliminated almost ______ percent of Europe's population.

T/F: The Mongols ruled the vast territory of their empire directly.

T/F: The Mongol empire was the largest empire in history.

T/F: The Mongol "horde" got its name from the Turkish word for "horn," no doubt due to the use of the battle horn in Mongol warfare.

T/F: The most obvious source of gold for European monarchs was China.

T/F: Medieval colonies in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic were driven by a desire to foster trade.

T/F: Realism and naturalism were the key trends in both art and literature in the late Middle Ages.

T/F: William of Ockham argued that human reason could not lead to an understanding of God.

T/F: The portability of altarpieces and devotional images allowed for greater individuality in artistic styles.

T/F: Dante's "Divine Comedy" is an important social and political commentary on fourteenth-century Italy.

T/F: During the Babylonian Captivity, the papacy's administrative control over the Church increased even as its moral authority declined.

T/F: In the Middle Ages, marriages were always solemnly celebrated in a church.

T/F: Sovereignty was a zero-sum game in the Middle Ages.

T/F: The Black Death struck and disappeared from Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

T/F: Jews were victims of attack by both Christians and Muslims during the plague.