Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-Black Death

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The answer of Please define the following key terms.
-Black Death...

Question 2

Discuss the factors that led to the urban and rural revolts in the fourteenth century. Was desperate poverty a chief cause? Why or why not?

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The urban and rural revolts in the fourt

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-condottieri

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Condottieri were mercenary military lead

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-conciliarism

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Conciliarism was a movement in the Catho

Question 5

Please define the following key terms.
-Florence's ciompi

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The Ciompi were a group of wool workers

Question 6

The Divine Comedy is the story of

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A) Dante's early life. 
B) Europe's reaction to the plague. 
C) the Greek drive toward civilization. 
D) the failures of kings and popes. 
E) the soul's progression to salvation. 
A) Dante's early life. 
B) Europe's reaction to the plague. 
C) the Greek drive toward civilization. 
D) the failures of kings and popes. 
E) the soul's progression to salvation.

Question 7

Parliament became an important component of English government in the fourteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What were the main causes of the Great Schism? What were the major results of this great political and religious conflict?

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The main causes of the Great Schism, als

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-Christine de Pizan

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Christine de Pizan was a prolific mediev

Question 10

To what extent were climate and disease key factors in producing economic and social changes in the later Middle Ages?

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Climate and disease were significant fac

Question 11

Please define the following key terms.
-Charles the dauphin/VII

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Charles the Dauphin, later known as Char

Question 12

Please define the following key terms.
-Canterbury Tales

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The "Canterbury Tales" is a collection o

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-scutage

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Scutage was a medieval tax that allowed

Question 14

The Statute of Laborers attempted to

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A) force all workers to stay in their chosen profession. 
B) limit wages to pre-plague levels. 
C) fix prices at artificially low levels. 
D) improve the lot of England's working poor. 
E) expand the number of people who could vote. 
A) force all workers to stay in their chosen profession. 
B) limit wages to pre-plague levels. 
C) fix prices at artificially low levels. 
D) improve the lot of England's working poor. 
E) expand the number of people who could vote.

Question 15

It was widely believed that the popes at Avignon were captives of the ____ monarchy.

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A) English 
B) French 
C) Neapolitan 
D) Spanish 
E) Portuguese 
A) English 
B) French 
C) Neapolitan 
D) Spanish 
E) Portuguese

Question 16

What were pogroms?

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A) Religious ceremonies convened to ask for God's help against the plague 
B) Small woolen balls people coughed into when infected with the plague 
C) Organized massacres against the Jews 
D) The name given to people believed to be responsible for the Black Death 
E) Mysterious sites where people could go to miraculously recover from the plague 
A) Religious ceremonies convened to ask for God's help against the plague 
B) Small woolen balls people coughed into when infected with the plague 
C) Organized massacres against the Jews 
D) The name given to people believed to be responsible for the Black Death 
E) Mysterious sites where people could go to miraculously recover from the plague

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-ars moriendi

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Ars moriendi, which is Latin for "the ar

Question 18

What happened to Joan of Arc after helping drive the English from France?

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A) She became rich writing romance novels. 
B) She was burned at the stake as a heretic. 
C) She married the King of France and produced many children. 
D) She married a peasant and lived in poverty and obscurity. 
E) She became the first female Roman Catholic priest. 
A) She became rich writing romance novels. 
B) She was burned at the stake as a heretic. 
C) She married the King of France and produced many children. 
D) She married a peasant and lived in poverty and obscurity. 
E) She became the first female Roman Catholic priest.

Question 19

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

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A) Dante 
B) Boccacio 
C) Catherine of Siena 
D) Christine de Pizan 
E) Geoffrey Chaucer 
A) Dante 
B) Boccacio 
C) Catherine of Siena 
D) Christine de Pizan 
E) Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 20

What were the root causes of the Hundred Years' War?

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The Hundred Years' War was primarily cau

Exam 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Please define the following key terms. -Black Death

Discuss the factors that led to the urban and rural revolts in the fourteenth century. Was desperate poverty a chief cause? Why or why not?

Please define the following key terms. -condottieri

Please define the following key terms. -conciliarism

Please define the following key terms. -Florence's ciompi

The Divine Comedy is the story of

Parliament became an important component of English government in the fourteenth century.

What were the main causes of the Great Schism? What were the major results of this great political and religious conflict?

Please define the following key terms. -Christine de Pizan

To what extent were climate and disease key factors in producing economic and social changes in the later Middle Ages?

Please define the following key terms. -Charles the dauphin/VII

Please define the following key terms. -Canterbury Tales

Please define the following key terms. -scutage

The Statute of Laborers attempted to

It was widely believed that the popes at Avignon were captives of the ____ monarchy.

What were pogroms?

Please define the following key terms. -ars moriendi

What happened to Joan of Arc after helping drive the English from France?

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

What were the root causes of the Hundred Years' War?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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