What time range is the Late Middle Ages:
12th to 15th centuries
13th to 15th centuries.
13th and 14th centuries.
12th to 14th centuries
What was the main social change in the medieval cities?
Peasants
Bourgeoisie
Handcrafts
Trade
The economic activity which grew the most during the Late Middle Ages was:
Agriculture.
Livestock farming.
Mining.
European population grew during the Lower Middle Ages until how many millions?
40
50
75
80
Which of the following is not an agricultural innovation in the Late Middle Ages:
Manure as fertiliser.
Roman plough.
Iron-wheeled moulboard plough.
Three-year crop rotation.
When we leave one part of the arable without crops for one year, we call it:
two-year crop rotation
three-year crop rotation
fallow
watermills
How much more do we produce when we change from the two to the three year crop rotation?
50 %
66 %
25 %
16 %
What advantage was NOT brought by the iron-wheeled mouldboard plough?
Faster
Deeper furrows
Three-year crop rotation
Harder tool
Among the changes of the iron-wheeled mouldboard plough there is the change of the ox for the horse for pulling the plough. Why was that possible?
the wheels
the use of iron
the harnesses
the mouldboard
The king during feudalism had many powers in theory… but in reality?
He had political power
He had symbolic power
He had economic power
He had cultural power
Therefore, among the great political changes in the Late Middle Ages we find:
The loss of power of the king.
The loss of power of the nobility.
The loss of power of the bourgeoisie.
The loss of power of the citizens.
The reinforcement of the power of the monarchs was NOT because of:
The end of the foreign invasions.
The insecurity.
The increase of economic resources.
The support of the cities.
Medieval parliaments resulted from what institution?
The Fiefdom
The Court
The Royal Council
The High Clergy
Who were the members of the Parliaments?
King, nobility, and peasants.
King, nobility and bourgeoisie.
King, nobility and proletariat
King, clergy and peasants.
What was the role of the medieval parliaments?
To hire workers.
To choose the Prime Minister.
To organise the local defence.
To approve new taxes.
The medieval parliaments in Spain were called:
Parliament.
Diet.
Cortes.
Congreso de los Diputados.
The Magna Carta was a response to
The abuses of power of the king.
The abuses of power of the clergy.
The abuses of power of the nobility.
The abuses of power of the bourgeoisie.
One of the important consequences of the population growth is that the increase of people implied:
An increase of trading supplies.
An increase of the agricultural surpluses.
An increase of the demand of products.
None of the above.
The name of new cities which appeared from neighbourhoods around castles, monasteries and crossroads was:
Roman
Bourghs
Counties
Charters
The definition of charter granted by kings or lords to cities can be stated as:
set of commercial regulations
code of human rights
code of rights and privileges.
instructions for self-government.
The realm of action of the borough council was the
fief
city
region
kingdom
The leader of the city council was the:
Councelor
Bourgh master
President
Chancellor
Around the main square of medieval cities we do NOT find…
Town hall
Castle
Cathedral
Market
Among the rights granted from the king to the cities we find
Freedom of labour and association
Freedom of expression
Freedom of movement
Freedom of industrial action (strike).
Local trade had place in:
Shops
Markets
Workshops and markets.
Shops and markets.
Characteristics of markets:
Weekly and everyday products.
Specialised and weekly.
Once a year and luxury.
Yearly and everyday products.
Frequency of the fairs.
Once a week.
Once a month.
Once a year.
Once every four years.
The Hanseatic League was an association of
peasants
cities
football clubs
artisans
Which of the following cities did NOT increase their trade in the Late Middle Ages:
Barcelona
Marseille
Baltic
Genoa
Who were NOT part of guilds?
Merchants
Traders
Craftsmen
Among the functions of the guilds we do NOT find:
Exclusivity for producing or selling in the city.
Collecting taxes.
Mutual protection.
Control of the production.
The masters in a workshop
were the owners.
worked for free.
worked for a salary.
worked the land.
The journeymen
were owners
worked for free
worked for a salary
cultivated land
The lower level in a workshop was
Guild
Master
Apprentice
Journeyman
Among the function of the guilds they did NOT have
Political functions
Economic functions
Religious functions
Sporting functions
Feudal society, in the Lower Middle Ages:
Had finished.
Continued in the cities.
Continued in the fiefs.
Had no privileged groups.
Part of the high nobility moved to the cities in the Lower Middle Ages and lived in
Castles
Royal Court
Palaces
Cathedrals
The new social group, the bourgeoisie, was divided into
bankers and merchants
merchants and artisans
High and petite
Merchants and apprentices.
The first university in Europe was the one of
Bologna
Berlin
Rome
Toulouse
When we paint or we insert a relief in architecture and adapt what we are representing to the surface we say that it is adapted to the:
space
didactic
tympanum
frame
A Pantocrator represents
Christ in the cross
Christ blessing
Virgin with Child
the Evangelists
Gothic art went from when to when?
9th-12th centuries.
11th-14th centuries.
12th-15th centuries.
14-15th centuries.
Gothic architecture is a reflect of:
rural lifestyle.
urban life.
commercial activities.
thick walls
Gothic architecture looked for height because:
they could just make it.
it looked better in postcards.
as symbol of power.
as symbol of painting.
One of the following is a hold element in Gothic architecture:
semi-circular arch.
barrel vault.
pointed arch.
horseshoe arch.
The use of pointed arches allowed:
political significance.
higher buildings.
use of columns.
emotions.
Another hold element in Gothic art was the groin vault, which consisted on:
two semi-circular arches crossed diagonally.
four pointed arches forming a square.
two pointed arches crossed diagonally.
the groin vault is a holding element, not hold element.
There are larger windows now in Gothic architecture because:
They discovered a good way of producing large glass-panels.
The walls had a holding function.
The walls did not have a holding function.
They could afford so, economically.
Pinnacles were mostly
Hold elements
Holding elements
Decorative elements
Sculpture
What do we find in the doorways?
Stained glass
Triforium
Archivolts
Wall paintings
The author of The Arnolfini Portrait was
Jan van der Weyden
Jan van Eyck
Roger van der Weyden
Roger van Eyck
One of the most important characteristics of that painting (The Arnolfini Portrait) was
Idealisation
Rigidity
Details
Free standing
The interior of Gothic religious buildings was divided into
Nave, triforium and flying buttresses
Nave, triforium and windows
Nave, triforium and scriptorium
Nave, refectorium and windows
Gothic sculpture was more
Idealised
Realistic
Wooden
Static
Commercial building in the Middle Ages
Palace
Lonja
Town Hall
Main materials for Gothic sculpture
Clay and wood
Wood and bronze
Wood and stone
Stone and bronze
New theme for painting and sculpture in Gothic art
Religious
Social
Portrait
The Black Death is another name for
The Bubonic Plague
Low agrarian productivity.
The Dark Ages
The 14th century
How long was the Hundred-Year War?
99 years
100 years
108 years
116 years
Social conflicts in the 14th century were mostly against
nobility
lower clergy
kings
