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Medieval Times

Most important events and figures in Medieval Times
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Last updated: February 13, 2021
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1. What period of time is covered by the Middle Ages?
500 AD to 1500 AD ✓
1000 BC to 100 BC ✓
1 AD to 1500 AD ✓
500 BC to 500 AD ✓
2. What event signaled the start of the Middle Ages?
The fall of Constantinople ✓
The fall of the Roman Empire ✓
The crowning of Charlemagne ✓
The attack of the Vikings ✓
3. Who quickly became the dominant power in Europe when the medieval age began?
The Catholic Church ✓
The Vikings ✓
The Islamic State ✓
The Franks ✓
4. What were knights given in return for their service and loyalty?
Metal armor ✓
War horse ✓
Land ✓
Gold ✓
5. What was the subject of much of the writing during the Middle Ages?
Romance ✓
Christianity ✓
Mysteries ✓
Mathematics ✓
6. Who was the top leader in the land with the Middle age feudal system?
King ✓
Baron ✓
Bishop ✓
Lord ✓
7. What was the name of the disease that killed nearly half the people of Europe in Middle Ages?
Typhus ✓
The Black death ✓
Influenza ✓
Spanish flu ✓
8. What was the name for a powerful office within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy?
Inquisition ✓
Reconquista ✓
Crusade ✓
Reformation ✓
9. What is the name of the social system that dominated medieval Europe?
Colonialism ✓
Capitalism ✓
Feudalism ✓
Socialism ✓
10. What was the title of the person in charge of the Middle Age monastery?
Head priest ✓
Abbot ✓
Lector ✓
Chief monk ✓
11. When a king died, who would typically take over the throne?
Lord ✓
His wife, the Queen ✓
His firstborn son ✓
Bishop ✓
12. Who reported directly to the king and ruled large areas of land called fiefs?
Bishop ✓
Lord ✓
Cardinal ✓
Baron ✓
13. Who was the leader of the Catholic Church in a Medieval kingdom?
Priest ✓
Pope ✓
Monk ✓
Bishop ✓
14. Who wrote the novel Dracula inspired by Vlad Tepes, the 15th century Prince of Wallachia?
Shirley Jackson ✓
Thomas Harris ✓
Bram Stoker ✓
Mary Shelley ✓
15. Founded in 1088, which university was established as a center of study in law for students across Europe?
University of Oxford ✓
University of Bologna ✓
University of Coimbra ✓
University of Cambridge ✓
16. According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Belgium ✓
Switzerland ✓
Germany ✓
Denmark ✓
17. What famous explorer did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella authorize an expedition for in 1492?
Ferdinand Magellan ✓
Marco Polo ✓
Vasco da Gama ✓
Christopher Columbus ✓
18. Who is the author of "Le Morte d'Arthur", the book that tells the story of legendary King Arthur?
Geoffrey Chaucer ✓
Sir Thomas Malory ✓
William Langland ✓
Margery Kempe ✓
19. What was the symbol of the Crusaders?
A red cross ✓
A yellow lion ✓
A green helmet ✓
A blue sword ✓
20. Not counting the Crusade of Children, how many Crusades were there?
15 ✓
7 ✓
9 ✓
4 ✓
21. Who did Christians fight in the Crusades?
Pagans ✓
Muslims ✓
Indians ✓
Jews ✓
22. Who captured Valencia from the Moors in 1094 and is considered the national hero of Spain?
Hernán Cortes ✓
El Coco ✓
Pancho Villa ✓
El Cid ✓
23. What two religious groups fought for control during the Reconquista?
Muslims and Jews ✓
Pagans and Christians ✓
Christians and Muslims ✓
Jews and Christians ✓
24. Which city became the major city of the Islamic presence in Spain?
Malaga ✓
Cordoba ✓
Granada ✓
Seville ✓
25. Where were the Moors from?
Scandinavia ✓
Mongolia ✓
Southeast Asia ✓
Northern Africa ✓
26. Who did the Byzantine Empire constantly fight with for control over the Holy Land and the eastern Mediterranean?
Vikings ✓
Muslims ✓
Greeks ✓
Romans ✓
27. What empire split into two with the eastern portion becoming the Byzantine Empire?
Roman Empire ✓
Persian Empire ✓
Ottoman Empire ✓
Greek Empire ✓
28. What emperor brought the Byzantine Empire to its peak of power?
Justinian I ✓
Valentinian I ✓
Constantine ✓
Leo III ✓
29. What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Babylon ✓
Alexandria ✓
Jerusalem ✓
Constantinople ✓
30. How long did the Byzantine Empire remain in power?
100 years ✓
1000 years ✓
300 years ✓
500 years ✓
31. What Byzantine emperor embraced Christianity and made it the religion of the empire?
Constantine ✓
Augustus ✓
Justinian I ✓
Commodus ✓
32. What marked the end of the Byzantine Empire?
The rise of the Russian Empire ✓
The fall of Constantinople ✓
The death of Justinian I ✓
The start of the Renaissance ✓
33. Which two houses in Medieval England fought for the throne in the Wars of the Roses?
Lancaster and York ✓
Hastings and Byron ✓
Tudor and Wessex ✓
Windsor and Stuart ✓
34. What war did Joan of Arc fight in?
French Revolution ✓
Wars of the Roses ✓
Anglo-Saxon Wars ✓
Hundred Years' War ✓
35. What Frankish king was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by the pope?
Charles the Great ✓
Louis I ✓
Merovech ✓
Clovis ✓
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