Name
Class
Date
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The Later Middle Ages
Section 1
DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a
statement is true and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false,
write the correct term on the line after each sentence that makes the
sentence a true statement.
______ 1. The pope can choose to excommunicate, or cast out from the church
those deemed guilty of serious offenses.
______ 2. Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Emperor Henry IV, but eventually
accepted his apology and allowed him back into the church.
______ 3. Henry III was Holy Roman Emperor when Pope Gregory VII came to
power in 1073.
______ 4. Rulers of the Holy Roman Empire inherited their thrones from their
fathers.
______ 5. Pope Leo IX was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and
formed the Eastern Orthodox Church.
______ 6. The center of the Eastern Orthodox Church is Rome.
______ 7. The Holy Roman Empire was created out of what had been Charlemagne’s
empire in the 700s.
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True
True
True
False—The Holy Roman emperors were
elected by their empire’s nobles.
5. False—Pope Leo IX excommunicated the
bishop of Constantinople, who formed
the Eastern Orthodox Church.
6. True
7. True
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8.
1. True
2. True
3. False—The Spanish Inquisition was an
Pope Urban II
Saladin
Crusades
King Richard I
Holy Land
Holy Land
King Richard I
Muslims
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8.
Saint Francis Assisi
natural law
pilgrimages
Saint Thomas Aquinas
clergy
religious order
friars
pilgrims
organization of priests that looked for and
punished non-Christians in Spain.
True
False—Religious ideas that oppose church
teachings are called heresy.
True
False—Queen Isabella paid for the voyages
of Christopher Columbus.
False—King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
brought an end to the Reconquista in
1492 when their army conquered Grenada,
the last Muslin stronghold in Spain.
Biography
Christine de Pisan
WHAT DID YOU LEARN?
1. Possible answers: Christine wrote about
heroic and virtuous women.
2. Possible answers: Christine began writing
because she was widowed with three small
children to support. She started writing
to earn a living for herself and her three
small children.
3. Accept reasonable answers.
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