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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Philip the Fair accuse the Templars of heresy?

2. What were the first signs of the people rebelling against the church?

3. What roles did the Church play in Coucy society?

4. How did the 14th century begin?

5. What was the political situation like in Coucy in the beginning of the 14th century?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the relationship between the church and the Knights Templar?

2. How do people try to protect themselves from the plague?

3. Describe Chaucer's visit to France.

4. What is the state of trade in 14th-century France?

5. What is the relationship between the military and money?

6. Who are the Pastoreaux?

7. What is the relationship between the king and the church in 14th-century France?

8. What technology affects the living arrangements in the 14th century?

9. How do people explain the presence of the Black Plague?

10. What are colleges like in 14th-century France?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tuchman describes a number of ways that societies in the fourteenth century disposed of superfluous people, in wars, in plagues, in the Inquisition. Analyze these squanderings, and describe the value society placed on human life in the fourteenth century. Why couldn't society find uses for these "extras"? Why were warfare and the Inquisition the best ways to dispose of them? Did anyone try to put the masses to better uses? What was the state of technology, that there were so many extra people? What was the state of agricultural production, to feed so many people?

Essay Topic 2

Peasant uprisings were a perennial problem in Europe. Why were peasants unhappy, and what did they gain by rioting? Did the peasant rebellions contribute to an improvement of the peasants' situation, or did the nature of feudalism change for other reasons?

Essay Topic 3

American government officials used the word "crusade" to describe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Compare and contrast these wars with the "crusades" launched against the Berbers in Tunis and the Turks in Hungary. How were they similar? How were they different?

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