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Quiz Number: 9 Course Name: World History Before 1500 Course No. History 3A Quiz N0. = 9 Teacher: Dr. Eric Mayer Teacher's Home Page: http://www.emayzine.com Teacher's Email: emayvvc@earthlink.net

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1. In the year 700 in Europe

a) Roman and German families owned vast estates that were quickly becoming fiefdoms

b) Society was composed of nobility, clergy and the peasants

c) Of the peasantry only 10% were "free" the other 90% worked as either serfs or in other forms of bondage to a lord

d) There was no middle class since inter-regional trade had ceased

e) All of the above

2. All of the following were true of Charlemagne except

a) He was a natural born leader

b) He was a great horseman and warrior

c) He ruled from 768 to 814

d) He drove the Muslims out of Spain

e) He conquered the Bavarians and the Saxons, the last of the independent German tribes

3. All of the following were true about the Battle of Tours except:

a) It was probably one of the most important battles in the history of Europe and Christianity

b) Charles Martel was the victorious leader

c) The Franks were favored to defeat the Muslims at the battle

d) The battle occurred in 732

e) The main factor in victory lay in the use of foot stirrups for the Christian warriors

4. The Treaty of Verdun in 842 was significant because

a) It incorporated Spain into the Frankish kingdom

b) It ended forever the hostility between the Franks and the northern Germans

c) It began the shaping of modern France and Germany by giving political recognition to the cultural and linguistic divisions that existed

d) All of the above

e) None of the above

5. Which of the following is true

a) Life in castles was neither romantic nor healthy

b) You could usually smell a castle before you could see it

c) The moat was an open sewer

d) All are true

e) The interior of the castle was dank, dark and cold

6. All of the following were true of the Vikings except:

a) They were one of the first to adopt Christianity

b) They were great seafarers who with the help of the compass were able to navigate by the stars at night and the sun by day

c) They were probably the first to encounter North America and actually had settlements there

d) By 800 Europe was filled with fear of the Vikings

e) The Viking attacks did much to stimulate the development of feudalism

7. Which of the following is true

a) All of the following are true statements

b) The fall of the western Roman empire created a vacuum that Germanic institutions filled

c) After 500 Rome's urbanized economy gave way to self-sufficient manors devoted to small scale agriculture and local trade

d) International and inter-regional trade disappeared by 600

e) The foundation of the new Europe after 700, would no longer be Rome but would be in the west with the development of the Frankish kingdom

8. The kingdom of the Franks was significant because...

a) It was the most enduring of all the Germanic states and it became the center for a new Europe

b) It continued the Roman tradition in terms of government, bureaucracy and society

c) The Romans counted on the Franks to protect them militarily

d) St. Augustine had many ties to the Franks and their monarch

e) The Franks pacified all of Europe and united it under their rule

9. Feudalism is

a) A system of landholding where the nobles are rewarded for their loyalty to the king with large land grants

b) A type of government in which political power is exercised locally by private individuals rather than by a centralized state

c) Usually a transitional stage that follows the collapse of a unified state until conditions permit the reemergence of a central authority

d) The process of creating debt among the peasantry so that merchants can take their lands

e) B and C

10. In 511 Clovis

a) Conquered the Gauls

b) United the Franks into a single kingdom

c) United the Goths

d) Dominated all of central and eastern Europe

e) None of the above

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1.	In the year 700 in Europe

	a)	Roman and German families owned vast estates that were quickly becoming fiefdoms
	b)	Society was composed of nobility, clergy and the peasants
	c)	Of the peasantry only 10% were "free" the other 90% worked as either serfs or in other forms of bondage to a lord
	d)	There was no middle class since inter-regional trade had ceased
	e)	All of the above


2.	All of the following were true of Charlemagne except

	a)	He was a natural born leader
	b)	He was a great horseman and warrior
	c)	He ruled from 768 to 814
	d)	He drove the Muslims out of Spain
	e)	He conquered the Bavarians and the Saxons, the last of the independent German tribes


3.	All of the following were true about the Battle of Tours except:

	a)	It was probably one of the most important battles in the history of Europe and Christianity
	b)	Charles Martel was the victorious leader
	c)	The Franks were favored to defeat the Muslims at the battle
	d)	The battle occurred in 732
	e)	The main factor in victory lay in the use of foot stirrups for the Christian warriors


4.	The Treaty of Verdun in 842 was significant because

	a)	It incorporated Spain into the Frankish kingdom
	b)	It ended forever the hostility between the Franks and the northern Germans
	c)	It began the shaping of modern France and Germany by giving political recognition to the cultural and linguistic divisions that existed
	d)	All of the above
	e)	None of the above


5.	Which of the following is true

	a)	Life in castles was neither romantic nor healthy
	b)	You could usually smell a castle before you could see it
	c)	The moat was an open sewer
	d)	All are true
	e)	The interior of the castle was dank, dark and cold


6.	All of the following were true of the Vikings except:

	a)	They were one of the first to adopt Christianity
	b)	They were great seafarers who with the help of the compass were able to navigate by the stars at night and the sun by day
	c)	They were probably the first to encounter North America and actually had settlements there
	d)	By 800 Europe was filled with fear of the Vikings
	e)	The Viking attacks did much to stimulate the development of feudalism


7.	Which of the following is true

	a)	All of the following are true statements
	b)	The fall of the western Roman empire created a vacuum that Germanic institutions filled
	c)	After 500 Rome's urbanized economy gave way to self-sufficient manors devoted to small scale agriculture and local trade
	d)	International and inter-regional trade disappeared by 600
	e)	The foundation of the new Europe after 700, would no longer be Rome but would be in the west with the development of the Frankish kingdom


8.	The kingdom of the Franks was significant because...

	a)	It was the most enduring of all the Germanic states and it became the center for a new Europe
	b)	It continued the Roman tradition in terms of government, bureaucracy and society
	c)	The Romans counted on the Franks to protect them militarily
	d)	St. Augustine had many ties to the Franks and their monarch
	e)	The Franks pacified all of Europe and united it under their rule


9.	Feudalism is

	a)	A system of landholding where the nobles are rewarded for their loyalty to the king with large land grants
	b)	A type of government in which political power is exercised locally by private individuals rather than by a centralized state
	c)	Usually a transitional stage that follows the collapse of a unified state until conditions permit the reemergence of a central authority
	d)	The process of creating debt among the peasantry so that merchants can take their lands
	e)	B and C


10.	In 511 Clovis

	a)	Conquered the Gauls
	b)	United the Franks into a single kingdom
	c)	United the Goths
	d)	Dominated all of central and eastern Europe
	e)	None of the above