Crusades and High Middle Ages Test

to recover Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims

What was the chief goal of the Crusades?

they thought it would help them get into heaven

Why would a person join in fighting in the Crusades?

Emperor at Constantinople

The appeal to the pope for military aid against the Muslim Turks in the 11th century came from the

increased trade in Western Europe

Which of the following was a result of the Crusades?

represents the opinion and attitude of a Crusader

Use the quotation and your knowledge of World History to answer the question.

"But now that our men had possession of the walls and towers, wonderful sights were to be seen.

Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them

with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. . .

Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the

unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies."

-Raymond d'Aguilers, quoted in The First Crusade, edited by Edward Peters

QUESTION: The primary source passage written by Raymond d'Aguilers

Constantinople

After the pope excommunicated the participants in the 4th Crusade, most of them continued on anyway, and ransacked the city of

Richard the Lionheart of England.

Sultan Saladin held off Christian forces during the 3rd Crusade and eventually made a truce with whom, which allowed Christian pilgrims to visit holy shrines in Jerusalem?

Pope Urban II

Use the quotation and your knowledge of World History to answer the question.

"Your brethren who live in the East are in urgent need of your help, . . . For, as most of you have

heard, the Turks and the Arabs have attacked them, . . . They have killed and captured many,

and have destroyed the churches and devastated the Empire. . . ."

QUESTION: The above quotation is from a speech by

hostility between Muslims and Christians

What was one negative effect of the Crusades that has continued to the present?

cultural diffusion increased

What was one result of large armies traveling great distances during the Crusades?

Eleanor of Acquitaine

I owned more land in France than the king himself. I married Louis VII, the French king, went on a crusade with him, divorced him and married the King of England thereby making me the most powerful woman during the Middle Ages. Who am I?

The black death

What is another name for the plague that devastated Europe in the mid 1300s?

towns or cities

During the later Middle Ages, where were most serfs likely to search for freedom?

in the vernacular

The Divine Comedy and the Canterbury Tales were each originally written

Believed Christian teachings were provable through reason.

Some Christians may have disagreed with the ideas of Thomas Aquinas because he

the flying buttress

Use the picture and your knowledge of World History to answer the question.

QUESTION: What medieval advance in engineering made this type of architecture with high, soaring ceilings and large windows possible?

Alchemy, where people attempted to make precious metals from common ones but did practice some basic laboratory activites.

The most prominent example of science in the European Middle Ages was

Tapestry

Use the picture and your knowledge of World History to answer the question.

QUESTION: What type of artwork is represented hanging on the wall?

short, rounded arches

Which trait did NOT characterize Gothic cathedral architecture?

illumination

Use the picture and your knowledge of World History to answer the question.

QUESTION: What type of artwork is represented here?

Chivalry

One of these terms doesn't go with the others. Which term does not belong?

G

Use the pictures and your knowledge of World History to answer the question:

QUESTION: Which picture shows tracery?

B

A

F

D

G

E

C

D

Use the pictures and your knowledge of World History to answer the question:

QUESTION: Which picture shows rose window?

A

Use the pictures and your knowledge of World History to answer the question:

Question: Which picture shows gargoyle?

D

C

E

B

G

A

F