1. Which of the following is NOT an effect of feudalism?(1 point)
Granting of land in exchange for service
Protection of land by knights
Increased Trade
Shortage of food
2. Germanic rulers used Salic Law and Christian conversion to...(1 point)
create absolute monarchs.
create cultural unity across central Europe.
supress the power of the Roman Catholic Church.
ensure that their sons would become warlords after them.
3. Blame for the Black Death led to the murder and forced removal of which group of people?(1 point)
Muslim
Jewish
Russian
Asian
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4. Using the image above, how do you see humanism displayed in Michelangelo's sculpture of David?
(1 point)
The large size of the sculpture
The focus on a religious figure
The use of stone to make the sculpture
The focus on details such as muscles and other human characteristics
5. Excommunication was the ultimate punishment for disobeying which type of law?(1 point)
Criminal law
Community law
Civil law
Canon law
6. Which of the following advanced the idea of heliocentrism with his enhanced telescope?(1 point)
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Kepler
7. Which of the following is NOT part of the Scientific Method?(1 point)
tradition
observation
testing
hypothesizing
8. What is the practice of crop rotation in which fields are planted with different items over a three-year
span, but one of those three years, the field is left fallow (not planted)?(1 point)
two-field system
agricultural revolution
three-year system
three-field system
9. Which female scientist simplified the calculations of Kepler's star tables in her book, Urania
Propitia?(1 point)
Maria Cunitz
Emilie du Chatelet
Laura Bassi
Margherita Sarrocchi
10. In the 1960s, changes were made to allow religious services to be celebrated in vernacular
languages, not just Latin. This demonstrates the long-lasting impact of what medieval event?(1 point)
The Scientific Revolution
The Catholic Reformation
The Protestant Reformation
The development of canon law
11. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the humanist movement?(1 point)
Emphasis on the study of subjects like philosophy and literature
A reliance on individualism
A shift from secular to religious matters
A focus on Naturalism and realistic protrayals of the human body
12. Which of the following figures claimed authority over secular rulers?(1 point)
Popes
Monks
Serfs
Philosophers
13. This person built on the calculations of Tycho Brahe to discover that planets move in an eliptical
not a circular motion.(1 point)
Kepler
Copernicus
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Galileo
Newton
14. What helped Newton prove his idea od gravity?(1 point)
a telescope
the scientific method
calculus
an apple
15. A decline in education quality due to low student enrollment and lack of faculty was the result of
what event?(1 point)
The Hundred Years War
The Bubonic Plague
The Protestant Reformation
The growth of universities
16. Which of these statements BEST describes the political and religious situation in Europe at the
end of the sixteenth century?(1 point)
Most of the German states in the Holy Roman Empire reinstated Catholicism at their official relgion by 1650.
Catholic nations intervened in English affairs and reinstated Catholicism as the state religion.
Europe remained divided over political and religious issues.
Rulers in Southern and Eastern Europe adopted Protestantism as their nations' official religion.
17. Which of the following truly helped the cause of the Protestant Reformation?(1 point)
the sale of indulgences
the concept of papal supremacy
the spread of the Bubonic Plague
the invention of the printing press
18. How did Muslim scholars benefit the growth of Europe during the Renaissance?(1 point)
They introduced humanism
They inspire Europeans to include Muslim relgious themes in art
They inspired the call for the reformation of the Catholic Church
They translated Greek and Roman texts
19. What typically happened to land after a lord or vassal passed away?(1 point)
The serfs took full ownership of the land
The land passed to the oldest male heir
The heirs had to split the land among themselves
The land was given to the ruling monarch
20. The signing of this document asserted that people had rights including the right to a fair trial and
the protection from unlawful imprisonment.(1 point)
The Magna Carta
Canon Law
The 95 Theses
The Mayflower Compact