Hist 101 Hudson Final UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What was the medieval economy based primarily on? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Agriculture
What factors contributed to the increase in agricultural output in the medieval period? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A rise in average temperature that allowed for a longer growing
season.
Aside from raising food yields, what were the consequences of the movement from a two-
field system to a three-field system? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Producing higher yields of
legumes or fodder crops per acre , diversifying the economy of the manor, and the spread of
labor more evenly over the course of the year.
After 1050, what did towns replace as the nuclei of civilization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
What did Charters of liberty allow towns to do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Towns pay their
own taxes
Why do Historians generally not use the term feudalism today? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The political and social order of medieval Europe
What element was central to the establishment of feudal monarchies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Personal relationship among individuals at each level of feudal society
What happened at Canossa in the winter of 1077? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- King Henry
IV humiliated himself before Pope Gregory VII
The first successful attempt to restore the spiritual authority of the Latin Church can be traced
to the establishment of a new kind of monastery at which location? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Cluny in Burgundy
, In 1059, Pope Nicholas II issued a new decree on papal elections - to whom did this give
power to elect future popes? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- College of cardinals
Taken literally, what did the term investiture mean to medieval Christians in the eleventh
century? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The practice of appointing a bishop or abbot and
dressing him with the symbols of his office.
In 1071, Byzantium lost Armenia and wealthy Anatolia to which Turkish tribe? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Muslim Saljiqs
When preaching the First Crusade, Pope Urban II suggested that those who fought in the
service of Christ would receive what benefit? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A plenary
indulgence, promising that those who died would immediately go to heaven.
What did Arabic mathematics introduce that revolutionized European economies? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Arabic numerals, which replaced Roman numerals.
The English King Henry II's important dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becket was related
to what great issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Whoever ultimately had legal jurisdiction
over priests and church courts
What exactly was the Magna Carta to which King John of England gave the royal assent? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To define the rights of nobles and limit his power, doing so only
because his barons forced him into it.
Who was the last emperor who effectively ruled all the disparate pieces of the Holy Roman
Empire? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Frederick II
How should the lifestyle of Emperor Frederick II in Sicily be described? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Included many cultures such as Norman, Latin, Byzantine, and Muslim
Arabic. ??
The Knights Hospitaller was initially founded for what purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Care for pilgrims in a hospital in jerusalem
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What was the medieval economy based primarily on? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Agriculture
What factors contributed to the increase in agricultural output in the medieval period? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A rise in average temperature that allowed for a longer growing
season.
Aside from raising food yields, what were the consequences of the movement from a two-
field system to a three-field system? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Producing higher yields of
legumes or fodder crops per acre , diversifying the economy of the manor, and the spread of
labor more evenly over the course of the year.
After 1050, what did towns replace as the nuclei of civilization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
What did Charters of liberty allow towns to do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Towns pay their
own taxes
Why do Historians generally not use the term feudalism today? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The political and social order of medieval Europe
What element was central to the establishment of feudal monarchies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Personal relationship among individuals at each level of feudal society
What happened at Canossa in the winter of 1077? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- King Henry
IV humiliated himself before Pope Gregory VII
The first successful attempt to restore the spiritual authority of the Latin Church can be traced
to the establishment of a new kind of monastery at which location? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Cluny in Burgundy
, In 1059, Pope Nicholas II issued a new decree on papal elections - to whom did this give
power to elect future popes? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- College of cardinals
Taken literally, what did the term investiture mean to medieval Christians in the eleventh
century? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The practice of appointing a bishop or abbot and
dressing him with the symbols of his office.
In 1071, Byzantium lost Armenia and wealthy Anatolia to which Turkish tribe? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Muslim Saljiqs
When preaching the First Crusade, Pope Urban II suggested that those who fought in the
service of Christ would receive what benefit? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A plenary
indulgence, promising that those who died would immediately go to heaven.
What did Arabic mathematics introduce that revolutionized European economies? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Arabic numerals, which replaced Roman numerals.
The English King Henry II's important dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becket was related
to what great issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Whoever ultimately had legal jurisdiction
over priests and church courts
What exactly was the Magna Carta to which King John of England gave the royal assent? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To define the rights of nobles and limit his power, doing so only
because his barons forced him into it.
Who was the last emperor who effectively ruled all the disparate pieces of the Holy Roman
Empire? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Frederick II
How should the lifestyle of Emperor Frederick II in Sicily be described? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Included many cultures such as Norman, Latin, Byzantine, and Muslim
Arabic. ??
The Knights Hospitaller was initially founded for what purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Care for pilgrims in a hospital in jerusalem
