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Quick quiz 2

Quick quiz 2


This activity contains 20 questions.

	The Concordat of Worms in 1122 required that:   the emperor give up the right to nominate or veto a candidate for bishop. the emperor formally renounce his power to invest bishops with the ring and staff of office. the pope invest bishops with fiefs. None of these answers.

	Banalities were a source of income for serfs.    True  False

	Most men agreed with the clergy’s depiction of women as inferior to men.    True  False

	Joan of Arc was declared a saint in 1456.    True  False

	The early Crusaders were motivated by:   hot blood and greed. religion. release from punishment for sins. All of these answers.

	The first Crusaders defeated one army after another.

	The Crusaders on the Fourth Crusade besieged Constantinople itself.    True  False

	The burden of the Hundred Years’ War fell mostly on:   the military. the nobility. the clergy. the peasants.

	Italians often hired a strongman known as a to maintain law and order and to prevent social conflict and foreign intrigue.

	City-states used diplomacy to:   stay abreast of foreign military developments. establish resident embassies. gain power without going to war. All of these answers.

	Renaissance Italy was marked by:   increased power of the clergy over the population. an appreciation and glorification of the secular world. Christian values adjusting to a more otherworldly spirit. the lack of secular learning.

	French, German, and Spanish armies wreaked havoc on Italy in the concluding years of the Italian Renaissance.    True  False

	In a state, the powers of taxation, war making, and law enforcement are concentrated in the monarch.

	To support the growing cost of warfare, kings could:   collect rents from their royal domains. turn to rich nobles for loans. levy taxes directly on peasants and on food or clothing. All of these answers.

	Russians believed that was destined to become the “third Rome” after the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

	By the mid-sixteenth century, France was a united nation and ready to emerge as a world power.    True  False

	The powerful nobility replaced the townspeople within the royal administration of Ferdinand and Isabella.    True  False

	The rule of Henry VII helped shape the monarchy that would become one of early modern Europe’s most exemplary governments.    True  False

	What caused the Black Death (bubonic plague), and why did it spread so quickly throughout western Europe? Where was it most virulent? What were the results of the Black Death? What does the case of the Black Death suggest about the role disease may play in shaping history?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	How did the church become divided and how was it reunited? Why was the Conciliar Movement a setback for the papacy?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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