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

Question 1

define the following term:
Valens

Answer 1

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Question 2

What role did monks and nuns play in early medieval society? Do you agree with the text's assessment that "monks became the new heroes of Christian civilization"?

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Edict of Milan

Answer 3

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Question 4

define the following term:
inflation

Question 5

define the following term:
curiales

Question 6

define the following term:
tetrarchy

Question 7

Compare and contrast Byzantine and Islamic civilizations of the east with the civilization developing in western Europe.

Question 8

define the following term:
Huns, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals

Question 9

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

Question 10

What is the doctrine of Petrine supremacy, and what are its implications for the history of the early Christian church? In what ways does the doctrine of Petrine supremacy impact the relationship between church and state?

Question 11

What were the major contributions of Islam and Islamic civilization to the early medieval West? Be specific.

Question 12

What were the major accomplishments of Justinian? In what ways did those achievements burden and help transform the Roman Empire in the east?

Question 13

define the following term:
federates

Question 14

What religious and non-religious factors account for the rapid spread of Islam from Arabia to Spain in the West and across the Persian Empire in the east?

Question 15

define the following term:
Odoacer

Question 16

define the following term:
Theodosius

Question 17

What impact did the rise of Christianity have on the intellectual life of Europe, both eastern and western, through the seventh century C.E.?

Question 18

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

Question 19

define the following term:
Theodoric

Question 20

In what ways were the teachings of Islam similar to Christianity? How were they different?

Question 21

define the following term:
Saint Augustine's The City of God

Question 22

define the following term:
Rule of Saint Benedict

Question 23

define the following term:
diocese

Question 24

define the following term:
Charles Martel

Question 25

define the following term:
monks and nuns

Question 26

define the following term:
celibacy

Question 27

define the following term:
wergeld

Question 28

define the following term:
heresy

Question 29

define the following term:
Gregory I, the Great

Question 30

define the following term:
Arianism

Question 31

define the following term:
monasticism

Question 32

define the following term:
Franks

Question 33

define the following term:
vicar of Christ

Question 34

define the following term:
Council of Nicaea

Question 35

define the following term:
Petrine supremacy

Question 36

define the following term:
major domus

Question 37

define the following term:
abbots and abbesses

Question 38

define the following term:
Saint Anthony

Question 39

define the following term:
compurgation and ordeal

Question 40

define the following term:
Clovis

Question 41

define the following term:
Muhammad

Question 42

define the following term:
Byzantine Empire

Question 43

define the following term:
Hegira

Question 44

define the following term:
Venerable Bede

Question 45

define the following term:
Saint Jerome and the Vulgate

Question 46

define the following term:
icons/iconoclastic

Question 47

define the following term:
Theodora

Question 48

define the following term:
Corpus Iuris Civilis

Question 49

define the following term:
Five Pillars of Islam

Question 50

define the following term:
Hagia Sophia and Hippodrome

Question 51

define the following term:
Procopius

Question 52

define the following term:
Qur'an

Question 53

define the following term:
Cassiodorus

Question 54

define the following term:
Allah

Question 55

define the following term:
Shari'a

Question 56

define the following term:
Justinian

Question 57

define the following term:
liberal arts, trivium, and quadrivium

Question 58

define the following term:
St. Patrick

Question 59

define the following term:
Arabia

Question 60

define the following term:
Saint Boniface

Question 61

The withdrawal of Roman armies from Britain enabled

A)Celtic Britons to overrun the island.
B)Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes from Denmark and Germany, to invade and to establish new kingdoms on the isle.
C)the rise of medieval Scottish culture.
D)local Roman elites to rebuild English Latin culture.
E)someone later known as King Arthur to drive the Vikings from England.

Question 62

define the following term:
Shi'ites and Sunnites

Question 63

define the following term:
Umayyads

Question 64

The Frankish palace official, Charles Martel, successfully defeated which of the following near Poitiers in 732?

A)the Visigoths.
B)the Burgundians.
C)the Muslims.
D)the Byzantines.
E)the Merovingians.

Question 65

The Edict of Milan

A)made Christianity the official state religion of the Empire.
B)was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity.
C)officially divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
D)formally deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, from his throne.
E)made Milan the "New Rome", equal to old Rome.

Question 66

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

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

After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom

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

Question 68

The political, economic, and social policies of the restored empire under Diocletian and Constantine

A)meant the destruction of the civil and military bureaucracies.
B)renewed the support of the Roman peasants and lower classes for the Empire.
C)led to the economic rejuvenation of the Empire.
D)were based on coercion and the loss of individual freedom.
E)led to the abandonment of the Eastern Mediterranean with a renewed focus upon Italy.

Question 69

Constantine's most enduring reform came in the creation of

A)a new system of Roman law.
B)the "New Rome."
C)wage and price controls.
D)the coloni .
E)the Pantheon.

Question 70

Diocletian intended the tetrarchy to

A)make Christianity the foundation of the Empire.
B)rebuild the economic foundations of the West.
C)establish an orderly succession to the emperorship.
D)Romanize the Germanic tribes within the Empire.
E)reinvigorate pagan rituals.

Question 71

Constantine's support for Christianity supposedly began

A)before the Battle of Milvian Bridge.
B)after his defeat by his rival Maxentius.
C)after Constantine was baptized.
D)as the result of his wife's influence.
E)after he experienced a vision of the apocalypse.

Question 72

The Council of Nicaea in 325

A)first organized a system of bishoprics.
B)elected the first pope.
C)defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.
D)centered around the heresy of Donatism.
E)was condemned by Constantine.

Question 73

In the late fourth century, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes were pushed into the Balkans region of the Eastern Roman Empire because of pressure from the

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

Question 74

In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by

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

Question 75

By the end of the fifth century in the West

A)the Germans greatly outnumbered the Roman population.
B)the German tribes had rejected Arianism.
C)the Romans still controlled the economic resources.
D)the Germans took over the economic resources.
E)Romans and Germans maintained separate cultures for the following several centuries.

Question 76

The heresy of Arianism

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

Question 77

define the following term:
jihad

Question 78

The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first royal Frankish defender of the Catholic faith was

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

Question 79

In Germanic society wergeld

A)refers to the payment made by a prospective groom to symbolize the purchase of paternal authority over the bride.
B)allowed a widow to hold property without male guardianship.
C)was the swearing of an oath to determine innocence or guilt under the law.
D)developed as an alternative to acts of revenge for injury.
E)was the punishment assigned to adulterous wives.

Question 80

define the following term:
caliph