Practice test - Late Middle Ages

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Practice questions: 

The Late Middle Ages 

Chapter 5.2

Chapter 6

Repeat: The Early Middle Ages

• In the Early Middle very few could read and write (basically only monks and nuns, not even all the nobility) 
• Due to this, the church has had a lot of influence on the information that we have from that time 
• Coins were hardly used as payment in Europe. You bartered mainly 
• Travel was dangerous, but not uncommon. It was, as far as we can gather, mainly done by water, which was safer and quicker

Name two major events in Islamic history. Explain why these events were important.

After the death of Muhammad, there was some discussion about his successor. What were the jobs of the successors and how do we call them?

Who is the Pope?

What was the feudal system?

What is the difference between spiritual and secular?

What was the Investiture Controversy?

How did the struggle between Henry IV and Gregory VII end?

What were the reasons for the Pope to call for a Crusade?

What does 'Deus Vult!' mean and what does it have to do with the Crusades?

What were the effects of the Crusades?

Try to think of a reason why it was possible to move back to the cities at the start of the Late Middle Ages (1000 AD)

Write down three ways
to increase food production
in the Late Middle Ages

Click on the cause that you consider the most important for urbanisation to take place

Farmers use new tools and farming methods, so less people are needed to work the land

Farmers use new tools and farming methods, therefore foodproduction increases

Forests and swamps are turned into arable land. Because of this food production increases

It should all sound familiar. Where did we encounter this process before?

1. Prehistory
2. Antiquity
3. Early Middle Ages

So... if this repeat and play, what do we see next?

1. Specialisation
2. Travel
3. Central government
4. Voting

How will a virus succesfully spread and lead to a pandemic?

1. The virus needs to be airborn (spread via the air)
2. The virus is airborn and people live in close proximity
3. The virus is transmitted by close physical contact

The tailors guild

The cloth guild

The bakers' guild

Read the source

“We wish to let all people from Hamburg know that we have made an agreement with our friends, the citizens of Lübeck. The new silver coins which are now being minted in our city, and likewise in Lübeck, should weigh thirty-nine grams less than two silver coins to the mark. To make sure the new coins will last, the silver shall be mixed with half an ounce of copper.

Our friends from Lübeck have equally agreed that they will not mint any other new silver coins except these. We have agreed that we will not mint any other new silver coins without their consent. If it should happen that both our landlords, the Counts, should die, the citizens of Lübeck shall not hold us under suspicion.

To make sure that this agreement between us and the citizens of Lübeck may not be changed or broken, we have presented the citizens of Lübeck with this charter.”

Explain in your own words what was agreed between the cities of Lübeck and Hamburg.

Can you give a modern example of such an agreement?

How did the citizens of Lübeck and Hamburg both profit from this agreement?

What were the advantages of city rights for the people of the city?

1. They could get more money out of the lord
2. They could pay for their own events, like a celebration for the Virgin Mary
3. They could organise their own markets or build city walls
4. They could pay for their own armies

What were the advantages of city rights for the landlords?

1. They had a wealthy city that could pay a lot of taxes
2. More rights meant more wealth and therefor more taxes

What is a privilege and name one example of a privilege Cities could get.

What would you prefer?

A privilege from the landlord, because...

A city charter from the landlord, because...

A city could be considered a third power in the medieval society besides the king and landlord. Why?

1. Both the king and the vassel could claim the loyalty of the city
2. The city could start an independent state
3. Whoever had the support of the cities could raise a larger army

After the year 1000, cities had grown and more people started to move from the countryside to towns and cities. What is the name of this process?

Put in the correct order

Cities receive city rights

The three-field system is introduced

Cities become more powerful than their landlords

Marketplaces grow to become cities 

Food surpluses are exhanged

Who would appoint the schepenen?

1. The people living within the city
2. The landlord
3. The king or count

A schepen is...

1. someone who possessed land in the city
2. someone appointed by the landlord to live in the city

What did a schepen do?

1. Crime fighter, policeman, taxcollector and defence organisor
2. Governing the city by making laws and upholding them
3. Set up policy for the guilds, collect taxes to pay the cityservants

What is a schout?

1. Like a scout with football, scouting for governing talent
2. The highest function with the schepenen
3. Head of the policy force within the city

Who were in the city council?

1. The schepenen and the schout
2. The rich citizens
3. The rich citizens and the schout
4. The schepenen, the schout and the rich citizens

Who governed the city?

1. The schepenen and the schout
2. The rich citizens
3. The rich citizens and the schout
4. The schepenen, the schout and the rich citizens

People in city were...

1. free
2. bound to the landlord

Serfs fled from the city to the manors

1. True
2. False

If you stayed in the city for a year and a day, you would become a burgher of the city

1. True
2. False

Common workers and beggars

Merchants and masters of the guilds

Middle class of craftsman shopkeepers 

Ranking

Which is the most important to people in the Medieval cities according to you and why? 

1. The right to make laws for people who lived in the city.
   
2. The right to charge tolls for outsiders who wanted to stay in the city.
   
3. The right to mint own coins.
   
4. Exemption from military service.
   
5. The right to build a defence wall around the city.
   
6. The right to hold markets and receive income from them.