World History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 10)

The same lordly class that ruled under feudalism kept dominating politics under the new monarchies, just with permanent administrative posts instead.

Charles I ruled for 11 years, from 1629 to 1640, without calling Parliament, until he needed money and was forced to recall it.

After meeting in 1614 under the child-king Louis XIII, the Estates-General was not summoned again for nearly two centuries, until 1789.

Rulers dispensed with feudal levies and introduced professionally trained infantry equipped with guns and siege artillery, directly under royal control.

Louis XI in France, along with Maximilian in Austria, Henry VII in England, and Isabella and Ferdinand in Spain, were absolutist ‘new monarchs.’

Each craft or industry was organised into a guild, an association that controlled the quality, price and sale of its product.

Europe’s population grew from about 42 million around 1000 CE to 73 million by 1300, driven by agricultural improvements.

Castiglione argued a woman should show soft, delicate, feminine tenderness, never resembling a man, even while still being clever and well-mannered.

The switch from a two-field to a three-field crop rotation system nearly doubled food output per unit of land.

Isabella dEste ruled Mantua directly whenever her husband was absent, and her court became famed across Italy for its intellectual brilliance.

Cassandra Fedele was proficient in Greek and Latin, and was invited to give orations at the University of Padua, arguing every woman should pursue humanist study.

“Town air makes free” reflected the rule that a serf who stayed hidden in a town for a year and a day became a free man.

Wives in merchant and banking families often managed the business directly whenever their husbands were away, unlike women in purely aristocratic households.

The taille was a direct tax that kings sometimes imposed only on peasants; clergy and nobles were exempt from paying it.

Without an adequate dowry, daughters were often sent to convents to live as nuns, since marriage without a dowry was difficult to arrange.

Cathedral stained glass windows narrated Bible stories through pictures, which illiterate worshippers could effectively ‘read’ for themselves.

William Langland’s poem Piers Plowman (c.1360-70) contrasted the ease and luxury of some monks’ lives with the pure faith of simple labourers.

Chapter 33 of the Benedictine Rule stated that no monk should own private property of his own.

St Benedict founded a monastery in Italy in 529, and the monastery of Cluny in Burgundy was founded in 910.

The Church was entitled to a tithe, a tenth share of whatever peasants produced from their land each year.

Timur called himself guregen, meaning royal son-in-law, and married a Genghis Khanid princess, since he could not claim the bloodline needed for the title khan.

Pax Mongolica describes the peace and stability under Mongol rule that let trade between Europe and China flourish along the Silk Route.

The qubcur tax funded the yam, Genghis Khans continent-spanning courier system, which used fresh horses and riders stationed at regular outposts.

Ogodei, the third son, was named successor as Great Khan and established his capital at Karakorum after Genghis Khans death.

A tuman was the largest Mongol military unit, approximating 10,000 soldiers, deliberately mixed from different tribes to break old clan loyalties.