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Walker AP World History Ch 10Reading Study Guide #1 Pg. 220-231

1. How does the story of Godric help to illustrate the attitudes of Medieval Europeans?

2. How did Middle Easterners view Europeans at this time?

3. With what civilizations did Medieval Europe have trading and other contacts?

4. How did Middle Easterners view Europeans at this time?

5. Why does Stearns split Medieval Europe into two time periods? (500s-900, The Early Middle Ages & 800-1300s The High Middle Ages)

6. Who were the Vikings?

7. What is Manorialism? How did it work?

(Timeline Pg. 222)

8. When did the Franks defeat the Muslims in France?______

9. What were the years of Charlemagne’s Empire?______

10. When did the Christians begin the reconquista of Spain?______

11. When did William Duke of Normandy invade & conquer Anglo-Saxon England?______

12. When was King John of England forced to sign the Magna Carta?______

13. What were the years of the Hundred Years War?______

14. What were the years of the European Middle Ages?______

15.How did the moldboard plow & the three-field system improve European agriculture? Pg. 222

16. On what model did the Roman Catholic Church run its affairs in Western Europe?

17.Who was Clovis & why is he significant?

18. Who were the Carolingians? What did Charles Martel do?

(Read Visualizing the Past: Peasant Labor. Pg. 223)

19.What kind of social and gender structure does the picture suggest? (Visualizing the Past)

20. Why didn’t Charlemagne’s Empire lead to a restored united Western Roman Empire? Pg. 224

21. How can Stearns assert that Western Europe had ‘cultural unity’ but ‘political divisions’?

22. Describe Charlemagne’s Empire (Map 10.1) Pg. 224

23. What was the overall urban population percentage Medieval Europe?

24. Where did Charlemagne found schools?

25. What is feudalism? How did it inhibit the creation of centralized monarchies?

26. Where was feudalism the highest? What is this percentage?

27. Which two countries of Western Europe WERE able to begin the formation of centralized monarchies by the end of the Late Middle Ages? Pg. 226

28. Who was William the Conqueror? What did he do in 1066?

29. What is the Magna Carta and why was King John forced to sign it in 1215? Pg. 227

30. What are the three estates?

31. What issues were at stake in The Hundred Years War? Pg. 227

32. Describe the re-conquest of Spain. Pg. 228

(Read Document: European Travel: A Monk Visits Jerusalem. Pg. 229)

33. What relationships between Christians and Muslims does this passage suggest, for the post-classical period? (Document)

34. Why would Spaniards play a special role in Willibald's Middle Eastern Experience? (Document)

35. Why did Pope Urban II launch the Crusades? What was the goal? Pg. 229

36. What successes did the Western Europeans enjoy? Pg. 330

37. What happened during the fourth crusade?

38. Describe the activities of St. Francis and St. Clare (both of Assisi). Pg. 230

(Read Thinking Historically: Western Civilization. Pg. 231)

39. Was there a Western civilization before the postclassical period? (Thinking Historically)

40. What were the defining features of Western Civilization by the end of the postclassical period? (Thinking Historically)

41. How did Pope Gregory VII (the Great) & Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV quarrel over church matters in the late 1000s? What were they fighting about? Pg 231

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