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Who were the members of the Teutonic Knights?


A) Monk-knights who established a headquarters in the former temple of Solomon.
B) German merchants who set up a hospital.
C) Italian maritime tradesmen who provided ships to reach Jerusalem.
D) Dedicated volunteers who secured Syria as a Crusader State.
E) Slave traders who followed the Crusaders into siege and captured the conquered.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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What was the decision reached at the Concordat of Worms?


A) The nobility had to recognize that the church had higher authority than the laity.
B) The church and state were entirely separate in legal jurisdictions.
C) The laity could not hand symbols of office to the clergy but could give them symbols of temporal authority.
D) The emperor had power over anyone in his land, clergy or laity.
E) The pope could negate vows of allegiance to a temporal lord.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Primogeniture meant


A) the primacy of the pope's authority was unquestioned.
B) those who paid a premium to the church were accorded commemorative masses.
C) the first-born sons of the nobility gained titles and property.
D) the age of majority was defined by conferring the sacrament of Confirmation.
E) None of these.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

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Among the new orders of monasticism that developed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,which was devoted to rooting out heretics?


A) Franciscans
B) Poor Clares
C) Dominicans
D) Benedictines
E) Ursalines

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The Fourth Lateran Council declared all of the following except


A) standards of clerical behavior.
B) that the pope was the highest authority in Christendom.
C) that Christians had to go to confession once a year.
D) that close relatives could not marry each other.
E) that everyone had to tithe 10 percent of their earnings to the church.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Western monastic scholars trying to understand Aristotle were helped by


A) better communication and less isolation among scholars.
B) the translation of Aristotle's works into Latin.
C) the commentaries of Muslim scholars.
D) Maimonides' interpretations of Aristotle in Hebrew and Arabic.
E) All of these.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The Crusades started as an attempt to assist Alexius Comnenus in defending the Byzantine Empire from the Seljuk Turks.

A) True
B) False

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The main objection to the appointment of Pope Leo IX was that he


A) was married.
B) was chosen by the Holy Roman emperor rather than church officials.
C) had never been a monk.
D) was illiterate.
E) adhered to the Cistercian model of austerity, which many monks hated.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Eleanor of Aquitaine was an exception to which rule about noble women in Western Europe?


A) She was not Roman Christian.
B) She refused to marry for political alliances.
C) She established a career as an abbotess.
D) She inherited large amounts of land.
E) She was crowned as co-ruler with Henry II.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

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The Fourth Crusade saw the knights take the city of


A) Acre.
B) Damascus.
C) Jerusalem.
D) Constantinople.
E) Lisbon.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The first person to call for a crusade against heretics in Western Europe was


A) Pope Innocent III
B) Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I
C) Dominic Guzman
D) King Philip Augustus of France
E) Francis of Assisi

F) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

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Thomas Aquinas' work Summa Theologiae was an attempt to


A) assert that faith was necessary before reason.
B) attempt a complete statement of Christian philosophy.
C) establish all rules of the Lateran councils in one document.
D) explain why the Pope was a higher authority than a king.
E) refute the words of Peter Abelard.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Discuss the restrictions placed on Jews after the Fourth Lateran Council.

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The council's pronouncements included re...

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The Peace of God


A) declared that knights could not take weapons into church.
B) declared that fighting had to be approved by an oath before God.
C) ended the conflicts among the various monastic orders.
D) allowed fighting only on certain days of the week.
E) prohibited violence against women, the poor, and clergy.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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How was Thomas Beckett's murder emblematic of the larger problems between church and state in the High Middle Ages?

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Beckett had been a long-time friend and aide to King Henry II of England,acting as his chancellor,even while being a member of the church.Ultimately promoted to archbishop of Canterbury despite the wishes of the previous archbishop,Beckett had a spiritual reawakening and declined to be Henry's man any longer.Henry was working to limit the power of the church and centralize secular power,and Beckett felt that was contrary to his interests,and so he resigned as chancellor.At odds with Henry,Beckett was ultimately exiled to France and then to Rome,and the conflict continued.Beckett excommunicated the king,even though he was not in England.When the king met with Beckett to form some kind of reconciliation,Beckett came back to England but refused to lift the excommunication.Exasperated,Henry inadvertently gave the indication to several of his courtiers that they should kill Beckett.Beckett was canonized three years later as a defender of the faith and a martyr.This event is significant as one of a series of conflicts between church and state because each tried to gain power at the expense of the other and continued to argue over whose influence was greatest.The king of England,in this case,tried to appoint his own political supporters to church positions over the objections of the church,stripped lands away from churches,and ultimately tried to remove clergy members from the jurisdiction of canon law.However,he was subject to the one church power that he could not overcome: excommunication.

The Second Crusade failed because


A) Conrad III died on the way.
B) there was no support from the Knights Templar because France was involved.
C) Saladin overthrew the military forces at Jerusalem.
D) the Crusaders were guilty of sin, according to the pope.
E) there was a massive surge of Muslim forces from south of Damascus.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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When the First Crusaders came to Constantinople,Anna Comnena thought they were


A) impressive.
B) talkative.
C) deeply religious.
D) chivalric.
E) curious.

F) All of the above
G) None of the above

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Pope Urban II's call for the Crusades was spread throughout Europe by


A) papal decree.
B) monks.
C) knights.
D) royal messengers.
E) troubadors.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Discuss the military affiliations of the Church and its personnel in the Middle Ages,and the circumstances that gave rise to them.

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How did Henry II of England and his sons curtail the strength of the nobility?


A) They forced the nobility to provide military service.
B) They initiated the parliament.
C) They prevented the nobility from building new castles without licenses.
D) They demanded taxes from the nobility.
E) They required participation in the Crusades by law.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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