Medieval Times

Most important events and figures in Medieval Times
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1. What period of time is covered by the Middle Ages?
500 BC to 500 AD
500 AD to 1500 AD
1 AD to 1500 AD
1000 BC to 100 BC
2. What event signaled the start of the Middle Ages?
The crowning of Charlemagne
The attack of the Vikings
The fall of Constantinople
The fall of the Roman Empire
3. Who quickly became the dominant power in Europe when the medieval age began?
The Franks
The Islamic State
The Catholic Church
The Vikings
4. What were knights given in return for their service and loyalty?
Land
Metal armor
War horse
Gold
5. What was the subject of much of the writing during the Middle Ages?
Christianity
Romance
Mathematics
Mysteries
6. Who was the top leader in the land with the Middle age feudal system?
Baron
King
Bishop
Lord
7. What was the name of the disease that killed nearly half the people of Europe in Middle Ages?
Spanish flu
The Black death
Typhus
Influenza
8. What was the name for a powerful office within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy?
Reconquista
Inquisition
Crusade
Reformation
9. What is the name of the social system that dominated medieval Europe?
Capitalism
Feudalism
Socialism
Colonialism
10. What was the title of the person in charge of the Middle Age monastery?
Chief monk
Abbot
Lector
Head priest
11. When a king died, who would typically take over the throne?
His wife, the Queen
Lord
Bishop
His firstborn son
12. Who reported directly to the king and ruled large areas of land called fiefs?
Baron
Cardinal
Bishop
Lord
13. Who was the leader of the Catholic Church in a Medieval kingdom?
Pope
Priest
Bishop
Monk
14. Who wrote the novel Dracula inspired by Vlad Tepes, the 15th century Prince of Wallachia?
Mary Shelley
Shirley Jackson
Thomas Harris
Bram Stoker
15. Founded in 1088, which university was established as a center of study in law for students across Europe?
University of Bologna
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Coimbra
16. According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Germany
Switzerland
Belgium
Denmark
17. What famous explorer did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella authorize an expedition for in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Marco Polo
18. Who is the author of "Le Morte d'Arthur", the book that tells the story of legendary King Arthur?
William Langland
Geoffrey Chaucer
Margery Kempe
Sir Thomas Malory
19. What was the symbol of the Crusaders?
A green helmet
A blue sword
A yellow lion
A red cross
20. Not counting the Crusade of Children, how many Crusades were there?
9
15
4
7
21. Who did Christians fight in the Crusades?
Pagans
Jews
Indians
Muslims
22. Who captured Valencia from the Moors in 1094 and is considered the national hero of Spain?
El Coco
El Cid
Pancho Villa
Hernán Cortes
23. What two religious groups fought for control during the Reconquista?
Christians and Muslims
Muslims and Jews
Jews and Christians
Pagans and Christians
24. Which city became the major city of the Islamic presence in Spain?
Granada
Malaga
Seville
Cordoba
25. Where were the Moors from?
Southeast Asia
Mongolia
Scandinavia
Northern Africa
26. Who did the Byzantine Empire constantly fight with for control over the Holy Land and the eastern Mediterranean?
Muslims
Vikings
Greeks
Romans
27. What empire split into two with the eastern portion becoming the Byzantine Empire?
Roman Empire
Persian Empire
Greek Empire
Ottoman Empire
28. What emperor brought the Byzantine Empire to its peak of power?
Constantine
Valentinian I
Leo III
Justinian I
29. What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Babylon
Constantinople
Alexandria
Jerusalem
30. How long did the Byzantine Empire remain in power?
1000 years
100 years
300 years
500 years
31. What Byzantine emperor embraced Christianity and made it the religion of the empire?
Justinian I
Commodus
Constantine
Augustus
32. What marked the end of the Byzantine Empire?
The start of the Renaissance
The fall of Constantinople
The death of Justinian I
The rise of the Russian Empire
33. Which two houses in Medieval England fought for the throne in the Wars of the Roses?
Lancaster and York
Hastings and Byron
Windsor and Stuart
Tudor and Wessex
34. What war did Joan of Arc fight in?
Wars of the Roses
Hundred Years' War
Anglo-Saxon Wars
French Revolution
35. What Frankish king was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by the pope?
Clovis
Louis I
Merovech
Charles the Great
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