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