Ch19 Full Test Bank Closings In, Closings Out - Medieval Europe 4e | Test Bank Backman by Clifford R. Backman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 19
Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 01
1) What event in 1453 marked the end of the Byzantine empire?
Page reference: 590
a. Absorption into the Holy Roman Empire
b. A fire that destroyed half of Constantinople
c. Invasion by the Ottoman Turks
d. The death of the last emperor of the Palaeologos dynasty
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 02
2) What were the main weaknesses of the failing Byzantine Empire? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Last Years of Byzantium
Page reference: 590
a. Colonial
b. Ecclesiastical
c. Economic
d. Military
Title: Chapter 19 Question 03
3) The Ottomans took over the power of the ______________, who had once been united under Saladin.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 04
How did the Latin West respond to the scenario depicted in this map?
Page reference: 594
a. Crusades were launched to defend the Byzantine empire
b. Treaties were made with the Mamluks and Ottomans
c. The Latin West joined in the despoliation of Byzantium
d. The Latin West did nothing to intervene
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 05
5) What was a major economic repercussion of the fall of the Byzantine empire to the Ottomans?
Page reference: 594
a. The Ottomans replaced the Byzantines as the West’s best trade partner
b. Trade was stimulated as a result of growing monopolies
c. Trade routes between Western Europe and Asia were severed
d. New products flooded Western markets
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 06
6) What innovations were necessary before finding a new ocean route to the East? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: New Route to the East
Page reference: 595-596
a. Improved navigational methods
b. Financial systems to support bigger journeys
c. Better ocean-worthy ships
d. Merchant interest in spices
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 19 Question 07
7) The _________ replaced the galley as the most effective ship for rough, open water.
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 08
8) What navigational techniques were used by these seafarers to the far East? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: New Route to the East
Page reference: 596
a. Astrolabe
b. Compass
c. Measurer of longitude
d. Nautical map
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 09
9) What overarching shift in merchant activity happened as a result of seeking a route to the East?
Page reference: 597
a. The trade economy was reoriented to the Atlantic coast
b. Land trade generally converted to sea trade
c. An interest in geographic expansion overtook the focus on sea trade
d. Trade in the Mediterranean ceased altogether
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 10
10) What event marked the turning point in the Reconquista?
Page reference: 599
a. The Albigensian crusade
b. The consolidation of Islamic armies against Christians
c. The splintering of the kingdoms of Léon-Castile and Aragon
d. The battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 11
11) Which area was the last to fall to Spanish Christian forces?
Page reference: 600
a. Granada
b. Castile
c. Las Navas
d. Valencia
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 12
12) What best describes Portugal’s agenda as politics shifted in the Iberian peninsula?
Page reference: 599
a. Focus towards the Mediterranean
b. Focus towards the Atlantic
c. Desire to go to war with the Spanish kingdoms
d. Desire to declare independence
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 13
13) What privileges enabled the Jews to rise to prominence in the Middle Ages? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Expulsion of Jews
Page reference: 601
a. Personal protection from bishops
b. Complete freedom to live and worship as they liked
c. Tax exemptions
d. Exemptions from all lawsuits against them
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 19 Question 14
14) Curiously, the Christian rumors levied against Jews echoed first-century rumors levied by the _________ people against early Christians.
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 15
15) Where was anti-Jewish mob violence most virulent and most frequent? (Select all that apply.)
Feedback: Expulsion of Jews
Page reference: 601
a. Denmark
b. Italy
c. France
d. Germany
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 16
16) Towards which direction did most expelled Ashkenazi Jews relocate?
Page reference: 603
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 19 Question 17
17) The papal decree known as ______________ formally enforced permanent cloistering for all religious women.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 18
18) Which group was actually among the main targets of the pope’s command to be cloistered?
Page reference: 604
a. Beguines
b. Cistercians
c. Benedictines
d. Premonstratensians
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 19
19) How did Pope Clement V try to resolve issues of lax behavior in convents?
Page reference: 604
a. Disbanding of all disobedient nuns
b. Establishing male clerics as heads of all female houses
c. Stripping convents of their financial donations
d. Prohibiting the wealthy from entering monastic life
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 20
20) Besides nuns’ religious behavior, what other concern did papal decrees express?
Page reference: 605
a. The threat of secular education
b. Misuse of holy texts
c. Distracting political activity
d. Harmful economic inequalities