Deck 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

Question 1

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Franks

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Question 2

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Odoacer

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Question 3

In what ways were the teachings of Islam and those of the Christian church similar? In what ways were they different?

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Question 4

How did Gregory I shape the development of the Christian church in Western Europe?

Question 5

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Theodoric

Question 6

What aspects of the western Roman Empire came to an end in the fifth century? What elements survived to shape the societies that developed in Western Europe from that point on?

Question 7

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Edict of Milan

Question 8

What roles did women play in the monastic tradition and early Christianity? How were the roles for women and men distinctive in gendered ways? In what areas was their potential for overlap?

Question 9

What contributions did the Germanic peoples make to the new political, economic, and social conditions of early European civilization?

Question 10

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Visigoths and Ostrogoths

Question 11

Discuss the possible religious and non-religious reasons for the rapid spread of Islam from Arabia to Spain in the West and across the Persian Empire in the east.

Question 12

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inflation

Question 13

Compare the intellectual life of the Roman Empire during its heyday to the intellectual life of Christian Europe, both eastern and western, up through the seventh century C.E.

Question 14

How did Diocletian and Constantine alter the Roman Empire, and with what long-term consequences?

Question 15

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Vandals

Question 16

What were Justinian's major goals and how did he try to achieve them? How successful was he in actually achieving those goals?

Question 17

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Romulus Augustulus

Question 18

Describe the system of government developed by the Christian church over the course of the third and fourth centuries. Why did church leaders believe such a government was necessary?

Question 19

What role did monks and nuns play in early medieval society? In what sense were they the "new heroes of Christian civilization"?

Question 20

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Theodosius

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Germanic tribes

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Athanasius

Question 23

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diocese

Question 24

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Gregory I, the Great

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Benedictine rule

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Saint Augustine's The City of God

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quadrivium

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abbot

Question 29

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wergeld

Question 30

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Arianism

Question 31

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monasticism

Question 32

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heresy

Question 33

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Saint Boniface

Question 34

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Saint Anthony

Question 35

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Clovis

Question 36

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nuns

Question 37

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Saint Hilda

Question 38

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compurgation and ordeal

Question 39

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monk

Question 40

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Council of Nicaea

Question 41

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Allah

Question 42

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Arabia

Question 43

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Five Pillars of Islam

Question 44

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Constantinople

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Muhammad

Question 46

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jihad

Question 47

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liberal arts

Question 48

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Qur'an

Question 49

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Shari'a

Question 50

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Bulgars

Question 51

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Saint Augustine

Question 52

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caliph

Question 53

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trivium

Question 54

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Hegira

Question 55

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Justinian

Question 56

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Umayyads

Question 57

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Hagia Sophia and Hippodrome

Question 58

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abbess

Question 59

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Byzantine Empire

Question 60

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Corpus Iuris Civilis

Question 61

What was the heresy of Arianism?

A)It questioned the divinity of Jesus.
B)It denied the existence of God the Father.
C)It denied the existence of the Holy Spirit.
D)It reverted to Roman polytheistic religious beliefs.
E)It doubted the existence of the Holy Spirit.

Question 62

Who had the greatest value under Frankish law and social custom?

A)A female infant
B)A male infant
C)An elderly person
D)A woman of childbearing age
E)A young man of military age

Question 63

Who was the founder of the Frankish kingdom?

A)Thorvig
B)Conan
C)Hagar
D)Clovis
E)Charles Martel

Question 64

What happened to the Visigoths after they sacked Rome in 410?

A)They moved into Spain and southern Gaul.
B)They were wiped out by a Roman counter-attack.
C)They settled in Rome, becoming its new rulers.
D)They went back to their eastern homeland.
E)They crossed over to Egypt and began a new round of attacks.

Question 65

Why did Diocletian's anti-inflation policies fail?

A)They actually led to increased inflation.
B)They were unenforceable.
C)They were too weak and too narrowly targeted.
D)They were incoherent.
E)They did not have the full support of Diocletian himself.

Question 66

What was Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king who took control of Italy, determined to do?

A)Destroy Roman civilization and culture forever.
B)Destroy the Jews in Italy.
C)Sack the Byzantine Empire and depose the pope.
D)Maintain Roman customs and practices in Italy.
E)Make German the official and only language.

Question 67

Which of the following was true of the Germanic family during Late Antiquity?

A)It was replaced with Roman familial models.
B)It was less important than tribe affiliation.
C)It was matriarchal.
D)It was patriarchal.
E)It was strictly nuclear.

Question 68

What was the wergeld system meant to accomplish?

A)The prevention ofblood feuds
B)Increased conversion to Christianity
C)A greater tax-base for Germanic governments
D)Decreased immigration to the West
E)Reduced intermarriage between tribes

Question 69

Why did the bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have special power in church affairs?

A)The churches in those cities had important trade monopolies.
B)The churches in those cities embraced Arianism.
C)The churches in those cities claimed to have been founded by apostles.
D)The churches in those cities enjoyed the most imperial support.
E)The churches in those cities had large armies.

Question 70

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Shi'ites and Sunnites

Question 71

What was a consequence of the Council of Nicaea?

A)Women were barred from the priesthood.
B)All Christians formally recognized papal supremacy.
C)Arianism was condemned.
D)Arianism was wiped out in western Europe.
E)The emperor came to play a decreasing role in church affairs.

Question 72

What was true about the Ostrogoths?

A)They were a matriarchal society.
B)They had no interest in trade or agriculture.
C)They were a Celtic people.
D)They worked hard to maintain the Roman tradition of government.
E)They were hostile to Christianity in all its forms.

Question 73

What administrative change did Diocletian institute for the Roman Empire?

A)He made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
B)He administered the empire without assistance from a civil or military bureaucracy.
C)He divided power between himself and four other rulers.
D)He divided the empire into four regions, each with its own prefect while he maintained authority.
E)He made no changes since the administration of the empire worked well.

Question 74

What happened to the Ostrogothic kingdom after the death of Theodoric?

A)It prospered under very able rulers.
B)It was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture.
C)It allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths.
D)It dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years.
E)It converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.

Question 75

Who pressured the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes to push into the Balkans region of the Eastern Roman Empire in the late fourth century?

A)Byzantines
B)Vikings
C)Avars
D)Arians
E)Huns

Question 76

Which of these steps did imperials leaders take in an effort to maintain the tax base and keep the empire going?

A)They abolished the imperial bureaucracy.
B)They engaged in a fresh round of wars of conquest.
C)They enslaved over 75 percent of the population.
D)They forced people to remain in designated vocations.
E)They encouraged free trade.

Question 77

What was the Edict of Milan?

A)A statement making Christianity the official state religion of the empire.
B)Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity.
C)A document officially dividing the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
D)A formal deposition of the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, from his throne.
E)A statement making Milan the "New Rome", equal to old Rome.

Question 78

Who deposed the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476?

A)Constantine
B)Clovis
C)Alaric
D)Odoacer
E)Aetius

Question 79

What happened to the Frankish kingdom after Clovis' death in 510?

A)It remained united while his sons ruled it jointly.
B)It remained united with one son pushing the others to the side to rule alone.
C)It was divided among Clovis' sons, and each ruled a separate area.
D)It was reconquered by the Romans.
E)It was jointly rule by the Romans and the Franks.

Question 80

What was a consequence of the withdrawal of Roman armies from Britain?

A)Celtic Britons were able to overrun the island.
B)Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes from Denmark and Germany, were able to invade and to establish new kingdoms on the isle.
C)Medieval Scottish culture was established.
D)Local Roman elites rebuilt English Latin culture.
E)Someone later known as King Arthur drove the Vikings from England.