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Summary (920-1250)

Context

Important Terms, People, and Events

Timeline

Getting There: Byzantium, 650-870

Byzantium Triumphant, Byzantium Faltering: 960-1071

Germany, 920-1075: The Saxon Empire to the Investiture Controversy

England from Saxon Kingdom to Norman Conquest: 925-1135

The Crusades: 1095-1204

Byzantium, 1081-1261: Decay, Defeats, Latin Betrayal, and Survival

France & England, 987-1226: Capets and Angevins

France, 1226-1270: Louis IX

Germany in the Hohenstaufen Era: 1137-1250

Christianity: Expansion, Monastic and Papal Reform, Clash with Secular Rulers (910-1122)

Reconquista, 1000-1250

Christianity, 1130-1244: Spiritual Invigoration, the Papal Monarchy, and Heresy

Study & Essay

Review Test

High Middle Ages (1000-1200)

Review Test

1. The Pope during the Investiture Controversy was

(A) Gregory VIII

(B) Gregory VII

(D) Leo IX

2. Which document put an end to the Investiture Controversy with Germany?

(A) The Third Lateran Council, 1122

(B) The Concordat of Worms, 1122

(D) The Treaty of the Lech, 955

3. When was the final East-West Church Schism?

(A) 1204

(B) 1054

(D) 1075

4. Who was the 'Bulgar-Slayer'?

(A) Nicephoras Phocas

(B) Basil II

(D) Vladimir of Rus

5. What did Vladimir do to get Basil's daughter in marriage?

(A) He gave Basil 6000 Varangians

(B) He accepted Orthodox Christianity and gave 6000 Varangians

(D) He converted to Christianity

6. Who was Gregory VII's opponent?

(A) Henry the Fowler

(B) Henry IV of Germany

(D) The archbishop of worms

7. What was Harold Godwinson's last victory?

(A) Hastings, 1066

(B) Against Harold Hardrada, 1066

(D) Witan's election of him in 1064

8. Robert Guiscard protected

(A) William the Bastard

(B) The popes

(D) Frederick Barbarossa

9. Albigensians were located mostly in

(A) Bulgaria's Bogomil mountains

(B) Languedoc and Toulouse

(D) the communes

10. When did Bouvines occur?

(A) 1066

(B) 1214

(D) 1144

11. Who began to turn the tide against the Crusaders?

(A) Kitboga

(B) Zengi

(D) the Almohads

12. What were the key Crusader States?

(A) Jerusalem, Acre and Antioch

(B) Jerusalem, Constantinople, Edessa, and Antioch

(D) Jerusalem, Tripoli, and Edessa

13. Who were the protagonists at Bouvines?

(A) Richard the Lionheart and Louis VIII

(B) John, Philip II Augustus, and Otto IV

(D) Rudolph of Swabia and Henry IV

14. What dynasty ruled Egypt during the first two Crusades?

(A) The Seljuks of Rum

(B) The Fatimids

(D) The Abbasids

15. What was a Theme?

(A) exiled Byzantine strongholds

(B) Military-administrative district in Anatolia

(D) military lands in Anatolia

16. When did Byzantium first stop Islamic advances?

(A) 687

(B) 677

(D) 960

17. What was Leo III's contribution?

(A) Efficient tax collection

(B) The defeat of an Islamic siege

(D) He was the first iconodule

18. To whom did Basil turn for military forces?

(A) Normans

(B) Vladimir

(D) Samuel

19. Who were not allies

(A) Otto and Magnus Billung

(B) Richard and Louis VIII

(D) Innocent III and Francis of Assisi

20. Who sent Humbert to Constantinople?

(A) Leo III

(B) Leo IX

(D) Bardas Phocas

21. Enqueteur is

(A) gold deposits in Toulouse

(B) The french crown's local investigators

(D) Wessex's jurists

22. What was Irene's inspiration?

(A) Bulgar-Byzantine reconcilliation

(B) Marriage to Charlemagne

(D) To convert the Bulgars

23. When did Basil rule?

(A) 960-68

(B) 976-1025

(D) 714-740

24. When was Dictatus Papae and who proclaimed it?

(A) 1054, Humbert

(B) 1075, Gregory VII

(D) Henry IV, 1077

25. Cluny symbolizes

(A) Papal reform

(B) monastic reform

(D) heresy's rise

26. Where did Simon de Montfort take his Crusade?

(A) Constantinople

(B) Languedoc

(D) Egypt

27. Who could be described as a 'Pious Hippy'?

(A) Odilo

(B) St. Francis

(D) Hildebrand

28. What did Leo II introduce to Byzantium?

(A) Greek

(B) Iconoclasm

(D) Varangians

29. What was not part of the College of Cardinals' duties?

(A) Electing the Pope

(B) Leading Crusades

(D) Debating fine points of Theology

30. Which is not an aspect of the Themes?

(A) militarized peasants as mobilizible soldiers

(B) strict separation of civil and military administration

(D) division of Anatolia and Asia minor into military districts

31. When did Salah al-Din retake Jerusalem??

(A) 1144

(B) 1187

(D) he never did

32. What was Raymond of Toulouse's problem?

(A) Failure to go on Crusade

(B) Protection of Albigensians

(D) poor dynastic claims

33. What was not a component of the Cluniac approach?

(A) close abbot control

(B) simony

(D) communal liturgic prayer

34. Simony refers to

(A) Simon the Dragon Slayer

(B) Trafficking in Church offices

(D) deposition of ruling Mayors

35. What is not one of Islam's five pillars?

(A) fasting

(B) jihad

(D) pilgrimage

36. Where did the Fourth Crusade attack first?

(A) Constantinople

(B) Zara

(D) Egypt

37. When was the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa and who was involved?

(A) 1086, Almoravids and Aragonese

(B) 1212, Almohads and Castilians

(D) 920, Fatimids and Almohads

38. Islamic policy to Christians and Jews was

(A) conversion or death

(B) religious freedom but financial liability and social demotion

(D) neglect

39. The first Muslim siege of Constantinople was in

(A) 565

(B) 687

(D) 732

40. The dynasty replacing the Fatimids in Egypt was

(A) Seljuk

(B) Ayyubid

(D) Zengid

41. When and what was Lechfeld?

(A) 955, defeat of Vikings

(B) 955, defeat of Magyars

(D) 533, defeat of Vandals

42. Fealty describes

(A) vows of monasticism

(B) personal oath of feudal loyalty

(D) English court system

43. When did Ferdinand III of Castile rule?

(A) 1135-1157

(B) 1220s-1240s

(D) 1204-1261

44. What describes the Ottonian System?

(A) church synods as parliament

(B) Sovereign's support, use, and control of Church

(D) Papal investiture of bishops

45. What did the Papal states not include?

(A) Rome

(B) Sicily

(D) areas vacated by Byzantium

46. When was Manzikert and who were the leaders involved?

(A) 1176, Manuel and Kilij Arslan

(B) 1071, Romanus IV Diogenes and Alp Arslan

(D) 1214, John and Philkip II Augustus

47. When did the Normans arrive in Italy?

(A) 950s-960s

(B) 1010s-1020s

(D) 1144

48. Who did not lead First Crusade armies?

(A) Godfrey of Bouillon

(B) Conrad III of Germany

(D) Baldwin of Flanders

49. When did Otto I become Holy Roman Emperor

(A) 955

(B) 962

(D) 938

50. what was a sheriff

(A) Merovingian lawman

(B) English provincial inspector

(D) Germanic blood money scale

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