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| Under Germanic law, if an accused person was unharmed after a physical trial, or __ he or she was presumed innocent. |
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| The most important gift a lord could give to a vassal was.. |
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| Whihc of the following was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold? |
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| In 1066 William of Normandy... |
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| invaded England, soundly defeating king Harold's forces at the Battle of Hastings. |
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| The Magna Carta was a document that... |
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eventually was used to strengthen the idea that a monarch's power was limited, not asolute.
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| At the heart of feudalism was... |
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| vassalage, which meant warriors swore loyalty to a lord, who in turn took care of their needs. |
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| While the lord was away at war or court, management of his estate fell to ... |
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| At which point in the guild system did a person work for no wages? |
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| Serfs were different from peasants in that serfs... |
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| were legally bound to the land upon which they worked and lived. |
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| Born to a wealthy merchant family, Francis of Assisi... |
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| eventually abandoned all worldly goods and materials in pursuits to live and preach in poverty. |
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| The chief task of __ was to to harmonize Christian teachings with the works of the Greek philosophers. |
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| Joan of Arc brought the Hundred Years' WAr to a decisive turning point by... |
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| inspiring the French with her faith. |
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| Spain's two strongest kingdoms - Castille and Aragon - were united when... |
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| Isabella married Ferdinand |
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| Merchants and artisans living in walled cities came to be called... |
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| burghers or bourgeoisie , from the German word burg, meaning " a walled enclosure". |
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| Lay investiture was a practice by which... |
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| secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave them the symbols of their office. |
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| To achieve his political ends, Pope Innocent III often used an interdict, which... |
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| was the punishment of an entire region ; no sacraments could be given except baptism and unction. |
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| Hildegard of Bingen's work is especially admirable because she... |
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| The Black Death killed nearly 38 million people, resulting in ... |
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| severe economic consequences |
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| Lois XI used the __, a permanent tax, to create the foundation of a strong FRench monarchy. |
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| a noble must have all of these characteristics EXCEPT... |
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| In the Italian family, the mother's chief role was to... |
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| The Flemish painter Jon van Eyck was one of the first to use and perfect the technique. |
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| The war between France and Spain for control of Italy ended when... |
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| Spanish mercenaries were let loose to sack the city of Rome. |
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| Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of REnaissance Italy's social ideal because he.. |
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| was a painter , sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician. |
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| Christine de Pizan is best known for her.. |
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| works written in defense of women |
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| The frescoes painted by __ have long been regarded as the first masterpieces of early renaissance art. |
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| Which of the following was the first Protestan faith? |
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| Which of the following founded the society of Jesus, also know as the jesuits? |
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| The Act of Supremacy of 1534 |
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| Parents in Renaissane Italy carefully arranged marriages, often to.. |
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| strengthen business or family ties. |
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| Chaucer's The Caturbury Takes is an important work because... |
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| Chaucer's use of of the Englsih vernacular was important in making his dialect the chief ancestor of the modern English language. |
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| The __ movement had a profound effect on education. |
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| Which of the following was the best known of all Christian humanists? |
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| Calvin agreed with Luther on most important doctrines except.. |
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| The final decrees of the Council of Trent... |
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| reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings in oppsition to Protestant beliefs. |
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| Vasco da Gama's discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be.. |
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| very profitable, since da Gama returned with cargo of spices and made a profit of several thousand percent. |
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| Which of the following believed he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas? |
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| What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century? |
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| who were the first European settlers of the hudson river valley? |
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| who expressed concern abouth the impact of the slave trade on the wellbeing of his society? |
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| Originally, African slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the... |
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| The Moluccas were known to the Europeans as the... |
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| What is the correct list of social classes from colonial Latin America? |
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| peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes |
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| To Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of WEst AFrica became known as the... |
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| The treaty of Tordesilla, signed in 1494, |
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| established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and those controlled by Spain |
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| Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the king's forces allowed him to.. |
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| take control of England and eventually establish a military dictatorship |
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| The foundation for a constitutional moanarchy by... |
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| distracting the nobles and royal princes with court life, to keep them out of politics. |
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| The work of William Shakespeare is perhaps the best example of __ literature |
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| The Rump Parliament was.. |
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| what was left after Cromwell purged the members who did not support him |
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| What was the Glorius Revolution? |
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| the invasion of England by William of Orange which overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed. |
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| __ were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin |
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| The art produced during the __ movement reflected the tension of religious upheaval and the spirituality of religious revival |
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| john Locke believed that humans' natural rights included all of the following EXCEPT |
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| When the Moguls began establishing their dynasty in India, the continent was divided into which two types of kindoms? |
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| Which region promoted the practices of child marriage ans suttee in India? |
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| Ottoman expansion in the early fourteenth century eventually led to their control over.. |
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| the Bosporous and the Dardenelles |
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| Recruited from the local Christian population in the Balkans, the janissaries were... |
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| converted to Islam and trained as foot soldiers or administrators to serve the sultan. |
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| The Ottoman central government appointed officials called... |
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| the manchus established the Qing Dynasty. The name "Qing" means... |
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What was the
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| In order ro identify rebels who opposed Manchu rule, the government... |
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| ordered all Chinese males to shave their foreheads and braid their hair into a pigtail called a queue. |
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| Beyond the extended Chinese family was the __, which consisted of dozens, or even hundreds, of related families. |
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| Under the Tokugawa class system, the eta were... |
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| outcasts whose places of residence, dress and hairstyles were regulated by severe laws. |
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| Issac Newton's universal law of gravitation... |
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| showed how one could explain all motion in the universe. |
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| Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should... |
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| John Locke's ideas suggests that people were... |
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| molded by their experiences |
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| To Voltaire and many oyher philsophes, the universe was.. |
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| In Jean-Jacques Rousseu's concept of a social contract, |
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| an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will. |
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| Which of the following composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three of the world's greaest operas? |
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| As a result of the TReaty of Paris in 1763, |
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| Great Britain had become the world's greatest colonial power |
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| The constitutional convention began as.. |
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| a meeting of delegates to revise the Articles of Confederation. |
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| Who has been rightly called the FAther of modern rationalism? |
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| Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thoguht was his... |
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| analysis of the governmental system of checks and balances. |
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| Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that... |
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| the state should not regulate the economy |
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| Which British was of cabinet acquired Canada and India? |
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| The American nation's first contstitution was called the... |
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| Articles of Confedderation |
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