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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question fromA

Married the niece of the last Byzantine Emperor.

$100 Answer from A

Ivan the Great (or Terrible) of Russia.It really depends on where you were from.

$200 Question fromA

Young French woman who is a symbol of French resistance. She was burned at the stake by the English for heresy.

$200 Answer fromA

Joan of Arc

$300 Question fromA

What did each saint do?St. Anthony of EgyptSt. Augustine of HippoSt. Cyril

$300 Answer fromA

• St. Anthony of Egypt: father of Church monks.• St. Augustine of Hippo: developed the idea as the Catholic Church as the spiritual City of God.• St. Cyril: developed the Cyrillic alphabet that manySlavic peoples use. (The European Union recognizes thisalong with the Latin & Greek alphabets.

$400 Question fromA

• Told people to obey God and not the Pope.• Was the father of the English Bible.• Was burned at the stake because he challengedthe Church by saying people didn’t need a Priest to read the Bible in Latin, they couldread it on their own.

$400 Answer fromA

John Wycliffe

$500 Question fromA

Norman king who invaded England in 1066. Hebrought an end to rule by the Anglo-Saxons. Thisalso introduced many French words in the Englishlanguage because the Normans spoke French.

$500 Answer fromA

William the Conqueror

$100 Question from B

The Slavic peoples split into how many groups?

$100 Answer from B

3East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine)South Slavs (Balkan Peninsula)West Slavs (Poland, Slovakia)

$200 Question fromB

These people were pushed north to live by theBaltic Sea. They still live their today in the countriesof Estonia, Latvia, etc.

$200 Answer from B

The Balts (hint: the Baltic Sea)

$300 Question from B

How & why did the Bubonic Plague spreadso rapidly in Europe?

$300 Answer from B

Flee infested rats brought it from town to town on ships.

Europe wasn’t very sanitary at the time.

People didn’t know about germs or what caused it.

$400 Question from B

Who controls a large area of Catholic Churchescalled a diocese?

$400 Answer from B

A bishop (or archbishop)

$500 Question from B

What happened when Rurik the Rus’s successorconquered the small village of Kiev onthe Dnieper River?

$500 Answer from B

The city of Kiev grew to become the capital of Ukraine & eventually, it’s own country.

$100 Question from C

The large area of land a Baron controlled.

$100 Answer from C

Manor

$200 Question from C

What happened after a disagreement over who should succeed & rule the land of Rus?

$200 Answer from C

The Mongol leader, Genghis Khan, conquered the area& made it part of his Mongol Empire that spread fromKorea to the Ukraine.

$300 Question from C

What happened as a result oftrade & close contact between theland of Rus & the Byzantine Empire?

$300 Answer from C

• Russia became an Orthodox Christian area.• St. Cyril created the Cyrillic alphabet thatborrows some of the letters from the Greek alphabet.

$400 Question from C

What made the Catholic Church so wealthy?

$400 Answer from C

People gave 10% of their income to the church to help support it. It’s called the tithe.

$500 Question from C

What happened because the Russians & Ukrainians were so isolated from Western Europe because of being ruled by the Mongolian Empire, which wasbased in Asia?

$500 Answer from C

They never fully adopted Western customs, insteadtheir culture became a mixture of European &Asian cultures.

$100 Question from D

Where did the other Pope live during theAvignon Papacy controversy?

$100 Answer from D

Avignon, FranceThe other Pope was in RomeThis caused controversy in western Europe& some people lost faith in the Church.

$200 Question from D

Because of the old dividing line betweenthe eastern & western Roman Empires &the invasion of the Balkan peninsula byIslamic armies, what three religions arethe most common in that area today?

$200 Answer from D

1. Roman Catholic2. Eastern Orthodox3. Islam

Red = CatholicPurple = OrthodoxYellow = Muslim

$300 Question from D

Often times, kings sought the approval torule from the Pope. What did this meanfor Kings?

$300 Answer from D

Kings claimed they had a “divine right” to rule.In other words, they were approved by Godbecause the Pope was Christ’s representativeon Earth.

$400 Question from D

What did the wealthy Barons have to give the King in exchange for getting free land?

$400 Answer from D

Money for taxes & knights for a war.

$500 Question from D

What made a knight (or Lord) so powerful?

$500 Answer from D

The Knight (Lord) owned his village, crops & peasants.

$100 Question from E

What two countries fought each other in the100 years war?

$100 Answer from E

England & France

$200 Question from E

When William the Conqueror gave the Baronsthat supported him land, what did he formso the Barons could help him rule?

$200 Answer from E

The Great Council, which evolved into Parliament.

$300 Question from E

What was the result of the French having to rally together to defeatthe English in the 100 years war?

$300 Answer from E

France became a centralized state & smallerregions lost much of their autonomy (freedom to rule themselves).

$400 Question from E

Nobles & clergy had different interests, desires & opinions than knights & burgesses did.What happened to Parliament as a result?

$400 Answer from E

Parliament divided into the House of Lords & the House of Commons. This still stands today.

House of Lords House of Commons

$500 Question from E

Angry at King John of England, his Baronsforce him to sign this legal document which,for the first time ever, limits the King’s power& grants certain rights to everyone.

$500 Answer from E

• Magna Carta (Great Charter)• The biggest right upheld was Habeas Corpus(Latin for “show me the body.”). Basically,it meant the King couldn’t through you inPrison indefinitely. You had to have the charges read & a trail.

Final Jeopardy

What was the result of a disagreement about which Bishop held supremacy over the other Bishops?

Final Jeopardy Answer

•The Church split into two parts, Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox in 1054 AD.