Western Civilization To 1648 (HIST-1500) Ch. 9

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Secular women like Heloise who wished to continue their education beyond convent school could:
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Be taught individually by a tutor.
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The High Middle Ages witnessed the birth of a new political structure known as:
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The national monarchy.
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King Henry II's important dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becket was related to:
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Whether priests should be tried in royal courts like other subjects of the king.
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The French Parlement never attained the importance of Parliament in England because:
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The French nobility, unlike the English nobility, was exempt from taxation.
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After the signing of the Magna Carta, English government gradually became a:
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Constitutional monarchy.
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The Magna Carta, signed by King John of England, was a:
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Legal documents defining particular rights of nobles and freemen and limiting royal power.
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The tradition of French administration that balanced local diversity of custom with bureaucratic centralization in Paris began with:
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Philip II, "Augustus."
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Frederick Barbarossa attempted to bypass the power of the papacy by:
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Forging an alliance with other German princes to oppose the pope.
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The last emperor who effectively ruled all the disparate pieces of the Holy Roman Empire was:
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Frederick II.
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Evidenced by the lifestyle of Frederick II, the culture of medieval Sicily:
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Included many cultures such as Norman, Latin, Byzantine, and Muslim Arabic.
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To the territories he inherited from his father, Frederick Barbarossa, King Henry VI added:
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Sicily.
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King Frederick II of Germany:
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Pursued his grandfather's policy of supporting the German princes while enforcing imperial rights throughout the empire.
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By the end of the thirteenth century, ______ had become the largest Spanish kingdom.
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Castile
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Alfonso II of Aragon ensured his control over his kingdom by:
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Documenting property transactions.
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Compared to the popes active in the early Middle Ages, popes in the High Middle Ages were:
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More concerned about establishing bureaucracies that increased the visibility of papal power.
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The Knights Hospitaller was initially founded for the purpose of:
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Caring for pilgrims in a hospital in Jerusalem.
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After 1187, the capital of the kingdom of Jerusalem was:
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Acre.
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Venice benefited from the Crusades by:
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Providing ships and supplies to Crusaders.
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The Venetians wanted revenge against Byzantium in the late twelfth century because:
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Some citizens of Constantinople had massacred Venetian merchants who lived in the city.
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The ultimate purpose of the Albigensian Crusade was:
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To justify the colonization of the south of France.
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The rapid growth of monastic houses, such as the Cistercians, in the twelfth century meant that more men and women were becoming professional religious and that:
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A religiously engaged laity was supporting the Church through the donation of money and lands.
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In the twelfth century, the central act of worship for Christianity was:
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Eucharistic devotion.
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Which Christian figure was an increasingly important object of devotion in the twelfth century and was the namesake of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris as well as other places?
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The Virgin Mary.
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The person most responsible for increasing interest in devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary in the twelfth century was:
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Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Hildegard of Bingen's canonization was stalled in the Middle Ages because:
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Her candidacy was subject to new, stricter regulations by the church.
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Peter Waldes's reform movement in the late twelfth century was considered heretical by the Church because the Waldensians did not:
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Accept the Church's authority and directives on the issue of lay preaching.
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Saint Francis of Assisi emphasized which religious themes in his ministry and new monastic order?
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Poverty, humility, and obedience with an active preaching ministry.
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The increasing persecution of European Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries should be interpreted in the context of:
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General Christian concerns about heresy and the growing suspicion of Jews at all levels of society.
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The growth of schools in twelfth-century Europe can be attributed primarily to the:
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General economic revival in Europe.
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Modern universities can trace their origin back to the:
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Cathedral schools.
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The seven liberal arts that the universities of Europe established as their curriculum consisted of the:
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"Trivium" and "quadrivium."
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Medieval scholastics taught that:
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There was a fundamental compatibility between human reason and experience and the divine teachings in the Bible.
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By 1200, access to some form of education was:
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Open in principle to all who wanted an education.
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Anselm argued that:
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Human ideas of goodness had been instilled by God, a being about which nothing greater can be conceived.
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The term "universitas" originally meant:
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Corporation.
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Upon admission to university, medieval students typically spent four years studying the liberal arts, which meant:
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Advanced work in Latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
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In the second half of the twelfth century, educated Westerners vastly increased their knowledge when:
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Important works of Greek and Arabic literature were translated into Latin.
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Compared to Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas seems to have:
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Believed people could comprehend the world around them through reason and experience.
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Students who attended medieval universities:
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Generally drank to excess, gambled, fought, and were generally rowdy.
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Chivalry:
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Was a means of legislating social positions acquired through either bravery or skill.
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Marie de France:
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Wrote romances.
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Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German poet known primarily for his:
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Story depicting the search for the Holy Grail.
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Romances told stories of love and adventure and were carefully attuned to the interests and concerns of:
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Women.
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The political power of some queens of the High Middle Ages in Europe is reflected in the:
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Power of the queen in the game of chess.
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The genre of literature most representative of urban culture during the High Middle Ages was the:
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"Fabliau."
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In the thirteenth century, the governance of Italian city-states became increasingly:
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Oligarchic.
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In towns, manufacturing was largely controlled by the:
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Trade guilds.
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The essential features of the Romanesque architectural style are:
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Rounded arches, massive stone walls, and small windows.
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Gothic Cathedrals were:
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A reflection of the medieval world and its knowledge.
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Between 1000 and 1250 Europe:
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Took on many of the characteristics that define the modern West.
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T/F: Gratian's "Decretum" was the standard canon law code and gave the Church power over issues such as marriage, inheritance, and wills.
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True.
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T/F: Twelfth-century popes, like their secular counterparts, sought to establish their authority by building and expanding bureaucratic structures to increase papal visibility and to show it in the daily lives of all Christians.
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True.
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T/F: The Europeans who settled in the new Crusader states forced their subjects to adopt Western culture and values.
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False. The Europeans who settled in the new Crusader states actually adapted themselves, becoming intertwined with the local populations.
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T/F: Pope Innocent III believed that Christians, Muslims, and Jews were all equal people of the book.
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False. Innocent III sought to increase the distance between Christians and their Muslim and Jewish neighbors.
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T/F: By the eleventh century, the reforming abbey of Cluny was abandoned.
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False.
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T/F: The Waldensians were declared heretics because they did not believe in transubstantiation.
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False. The Waldensians were declared heretics because they began to preach without authorization, not because they did not believe in transubstantiation.
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T/F: One of the most popular saints and most powerful saint's cults in the Middle Ages was the Virgin Mary.
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True.
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T/F: Hildegard of Bingen wrote on a variety of subjects outside her spiritual concerns as a nun, including pharmacology and gynecology.
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True.
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T/F: In the late Middle Ages, Jews were routinely expelled from Italy, England, France, Germany, and Spain.
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True.
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T/F: Medieval scholastics exalted the dignity of human nature and the ability of human reason.
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True.
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T/F: Peter Abelard was a controversial and popular teacher who made the University of Bologna a center of theology.
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False.
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T/F: The goal of Abelard's philosophical works was to show that the different opinions of the Church Fathers could be reconciled.
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True.
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T/F: Saint Thomas Aquinas was a member of the Jesuit order and a teacher at Paris.
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False. Aquinas was a member of the Dominican order, not the Jesuit order.
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T/F: The chivalric code suggested that noblewomen ought to be treated as objects of veneration.
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True.
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T/F: In 1250, the most powerful guild in Arras was a guild of professional entertainers.
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True.
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T/F: Twelfth-century literature focused on courtly themes and motifs and avoided discussion of the profane and mundane.
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False.