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UPSC CDS World History — practice questions — page 11

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The word feudalism comes from the German word feud. What does feud mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which French historian wrote Feudal Society and was shot by the Nazis?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Germanic tribe gave Gaul the name France?Read the answer and worked solution →Who crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in 800?Read the answer and worked solution →Clovis and the Franks converted to Christianity in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The three orders of medieval society were the clergy, the nobility and the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which twelfth-century abbess wrote that God makes distinctions among his flock?Read the answer and worked solution →At the vassalage ceremony the vassal received a charter, a staff or even a:Read the answer and worked solution →The house of a lord on his estate was called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The piece of land a lord gave to a knight was called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Who headed the western Church and lived in Rome?Read the answer and worked solution →The Church's tenth share of what peasants produced each year was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →St Benedict founded his monastery in Italy in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →From the thirteenth century, monks who wandered preaching and living on charity were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote The Canterbury Tales, with comic portraits of a nun, a monk and a friar?Read the answer and worked solution →Free peasants owed the lord military service of at least how many days a year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which direct royal tax fell on peasants while clergy and nobles were exempt?Read the answer and worked solution →William I mapped England and split the land among how many Norman nobles?Read the answer and worked solution →The most revolutionary change in medieval land use was the switch to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Europe's population around 1300 stood at about:Read the answer and worked solution →How long did a runaway serf have to hide in a town, undiscovered, to become free?Read the answer and worked solution →The Black Death struck western Europe between which years?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the peasant's burdensRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the feudal wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the feudal datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the three ordersRead the answer and worked solution →Old farming or newRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the three ordersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Feudal Europe bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The word feudalism comes from the German word feud. What does feud mean?

  1. A piece of land
  2. A sworn promise
  3. A stone castle
  4. A mounted knight
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Correct answer: A. A piece of land

1. The term covers economic, legal and social ties. 2. Feud means a piece of land. 3. It developed first in medieval France. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 6, The Three Orders._

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Which French historian wrote Feudal Society and was shot by the Nazis?

  1. Langland
  2. Marc Bloch
  3. Abbot Suger
  4. Boccaccio
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Correct answer: B. Marc Bloch

1. He stressed geography and collective attitudes. 2. Marc Bloch wrote Feudal Society. 3. It covers France between 900 and 1300. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 6, The Three Orders._

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Which Germanic tribe gave Gaul the name France?

  1. Franks
  2. Saxons
  3. Angles
  4. Goths
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Correct answer: A. Franks

1. Gaul was a Roman province. 2. The Franks gave it their name. 3. Frankish kings were Christian from the sixth century. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 6, The Three Orders._

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