Which best summarizes the circumstances of the medieval West, Byzantium, and Islamic states between 1000 and 1300?
(a) the West began to prosper, while the fortunes of Byzantium and Islam declined.
(b) the Byzantine state remained stable, but al-Andalus expanded at the expense of the medieval West.
(c) all three civilizations shrank, thanks to the invasions of the Huns.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) population growth.
(b) women began to outlive men.
(c) Europeans began to eat more vegetables than ever before.
Most medieval peasants lived within three critical institutions: manors, villages, and
(a) publicans.
(b) parishes.
(c) confraternities.
Masters, apprentices and journeymen were regulated by medieval
(a) guilds.
(b) manors.
(c) cathars.
Burghers or burgesses
(a) followed the Bogomil heresy.
(b) lived in cities and towns.
(c) worked as intermediaries between lords and peasants.
Manorialism allowed medieval elites
(a) to extract wealth from the peasantry.
(b) to dominate towns as well as the countryside.
(c) to recreate the latifundia of Roman times.
Godric of Finchale ended his life as a hermit, but before that he made a fortune as
(a) a crusader.
(b) a seafaring merchant.
(c) the sheriff of Norfolk.
Historians talk about a “communal movement” in medieval Europe. The medieval commune
(a) gave rise to the first major medieval heresy.
(b) was the equivalent of the modern Jewish ghetto.
(c) had a charter guaranteeing its own government, courts, taxes, and customs.
Usury was
(a) the loaning of money at interest.
(b) denial of the presence of Christ in the wine and bread of the mass.
(c) a required trait of a good courtly lover.
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