Western Civilization to 1500
Study Guide III ( covering Chapters 9,10 and 11)
1. Who were the two major figures involved in the Investiture Controversy?
2. What was the basis of the power of Emperor Otto I?
3. What was the strongest county in northern
4. What factor gave women higher fertility in the High Middle Ages?
5. What name is given to the Spanish leaders’ expulsion of the Muslims from the peninsula?
6. What groups formed the Roman curia?
7. What was the main reason the First Crusade was successful?
8. What avenues opened to women during the Crusades?
9. What were the conditions and obligations of European serfs during the High Middle Ages?
10. What factor increased the prosperity of individual peasant families the most?
11. What developments enhanced agricultural productivity in Medieval times?
12. What characteristics were attached to the nobility in Medieval Society?
13. What was one major source of tensions in Medieval noble families?
14. What kinds of power and duties did aristocratic widows possess?
15. What was the primary source of recruitment for monasteries and convents?
16. Who performed manual labor in medieval monasteries?
17. To what does the term territorial lordship refer?
18. What were the reasons priests were forbidden to attend trial by ordeal by the Fourth Lateran Council?
19. Why did William the Conqueror have the Domesday Book compiled?
20. What was the fundamental principle of French Royal administration?
21. What elements composed the new international business firms of the Commercial Revolution?
22. What major social function did towns and cities play?
23. In the Low Countries and
24. What were the characteristics of the new Dominican and Franciscan orders?
25. What was the purpose of the Inquisition?