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Medieval Times

Most important events and figures in Medieval Times
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1. What period of time is covered by the Middle Ages?
500 AD to 1500 AD
1000 BC to 100 BC
1 AD to 1500 AD
500 BC to 500 AD
2. What event signaled the start of the Middle Ages?
The fall of the Roman Empire
The fall of Constantinople
The crowning of Charlemagne
The attack of the Vikings
3. Who quickly became the dominant power in Europe when the medieval age began?
The Franks
The Islamic State
The Catholic Church
The Vikings
4. What were knights given in return for their service and loyalty?
Metal armor
Land
War horse
Gold
5. What was the subject of much of the writing during the Middle Ages?
Romance
Mysteries
Mathematics
Christianity
6. Who was the top leader in the land with the Middle age feudal system?
King
Bishop
Lord
Baron
7. What was the name of the disease that killed nearly half the people of Europe in Middle Ages?
Influenza
The Black death
Spanish flu
Typhus
8. What was the name for a powerful office within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy?
Reformation
Crusade
Reconquista
Inquisition
9. What is the name of the social system that dominated medieval Europe?
Feudalism
Socialism
Capitalism
Colonialism
10. What was the title of the person in charge of the Middle Age monastery?
Abbot
Chief monk
Lector
Head priest
11. When a king died, who would typically take over the throne?
His wife, the Queen
His firstborn son
Lord
Bishop
12. Who reported directly to the king and ruled large areas of land called fiefs?
Baron
Bishop
Cardinal
Lord
13. Who was the leader of the Catholic Church in a Medieval kingdom?
Monk
Pope
Priest
Bishop
14. Who wrote the novel Dracula inspired by Vlad Tepes, the 15th century Prince of Wallachia?
Shirley Jackson
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Thomas Harris
15. Founded in 1088, which university was established as a center of study in law for students across Europe?
University of Cambridge
University of Coimbra
University of Oxford
University of Bologna
16. According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Denmark
Germany
Switzerland
Belgium
17. What famous explorer did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella authorize an expedition for in 1492?
Ferdinand Magellan
Marco Polo
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
18. Who is the author of "Le Morte d'Arthur", the book that tells the story of legendary King Arthur?
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
19. What was the symbol of the Crusaders?
A green helmet
A red cross
A blue sword
A yellow lion
20. Not counting the Crusade of Children, how many Crusades were there?
9
15
4
7
21. Who did Christians fight in the Crusades?
Indians
Pagans
Jews
Muslims
22. Who captured Valencia from the Moors in 1094 and is considered the national hero of Spain?
El Cid
Pancho Villa
El Coco
Hernán Cortes
23. What two religious groups fought for control during the Reconquista?
Pagans and Christians
Jews and Christians
Christians and Muslims
Muslims and Jews
24. Which city became the major city of the Islamic presence in Spain?
Malaga
Cordoba
Seville
Granada
25. Where were the Moors from?
Mongolia
Northern Africa
Southeast Asia
Scandinavia
26. Who did the Byzantine Empire constantly fight with for control over the Holy Land and the eastern Mediterranean?
Muslims
Vikings
Romans
Greeks
27. What empire split into two with the eastern portion becoming the Byzantine Empire?
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire
Persian Empire
Greek Empire
28. What emperor brought the Byzantine Empire to its peak of power?
Valentinian I
Constantine
Justinian I
Leo III
29. What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Babylon
Alexandria
Jerusalem
Constantinople
30. How long did the Byzantine Empire remain in power?
300 years
1000 years
100 years
500 years
31. What Byzantine emperor embraced Christianity and made it the religion of the empire?
Constantine
Justinian I
Augustus
Commodus
32. What marked the end of the Byzantine Empire?
The fall of Constantinople
The start of the Renaissance
The rise of the Russian Empire
The death of Justinian I
33. Which two houses in Medieval England fought for the throne in the Wars of the Roses?
Lancaster and York
Tudor and Wessex
Windsor and Stuart
Hastings and Byron
34. What war did Joan of Arc fight in?
Hundred Years' War
Wars of the Roses
French Revolution
Anglo-Saxon Wars
35. What Frankish king was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by the pope?
Clovis
Louis I
Merovech
Charles the Great
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