Deck 8: European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

Question 1

Talk about :
scriptoria

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss the changing relations between Islam and the Byzantine Empire between 750 and 1000.

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

Talk about :
Charlemagne

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

Talk about :
Pepin

Question 5

How did Viking raids and settlements impact the development of medieval Europe?

Question 6

Talk about :
Einhard

Question 7

Talk about :
monogamy

Question 8

Does the phrase "Middle Ages" overlook that which was unique about this phase of Western Civilization, treating these centuries only as an interlude between other times of greater significance and originality?

Question 9

To what extent did the Catholic Church alter Germanic practices in regard to family, sexuality, and children?

Question 10

Talk about :
missi dominici

Question 11

Of what significance was the Carolingian intellectual renaissance to western European civilization?

Question 12

Talk about :
nuclear family

Question 13

Compare and contrast Islamic civilization with the civilization of Western Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. How did they mutually affect one another?

Question 14

What conditions led to the development of feudalism in the Middle Ages, and in what ways did feudalism give stability and order to the medieval West?

Question 15

To what extent was the Carolingian world a continuation of the past, and to what extent did it represent change and innovation?

Question 16

In what ways is Byzantine civilization during the ninth and tenth centuries worthy of the title "zenith of Byzantine civilization"?

Question 17

Talk about :
clerical celibacy

Question 18

Describe the conversion to Christianity of the various peoples of Eastern Europe, including a discussion about the responsibilities of Rome and of Constantinople in that process.

Question 19

Talk about :
margraves and counts

Question 20

Was European civilization from 750 to 1000 characterized more by continuity or change?

Question 21

Talk about :
Danelaw

Question 22

Talk about :
fief

Question 23

Talk about :
Normandy

Question 24

Talk about :
the Battle of Lechfeld

Question 25

Talk about :
dux

Question 26

Talk about :
the stirrup

Question 27

Talk about :
Carolingian minuscule

Question 28

Talk about :
Alcuin of York

Question 29

Talk about :
Hugh Capet

Question 30

Talk about :
knights

Question 31

Talk about :
Magyars

Question 32

Talk about :
Louis the Pious

Question 33

Talk about :
lords, vassals, and vassalage

Question 34

Talk about :
mandrake, henbane, and bleeding

Question 35

Talk about :
Treaty of Verdun

Question 36

Talk about :
Otto I

Question 37

Talk about :
feudalism

Question 38

Talk about :
Carolingian Renaissance

Question 39

Talk about :
Vikings

Question 40

Talk about :
subinfeudation

Question 41

Talk about :
Harun al-Rashid

Question 42

Talk about :
Slavs

Question 43

Talk about :
Macedonian emperors

Question 44

Talk about :
Cyril and Methodius

Question 45

Talk about :
tithe

Question 46

Talk about :
Rurik

Question 47

Talk about :
the Rus

Question 48

Talk about :
Varangians

Question 49

Talk about :
manorialism

Question 50

Talk about :
demesne

Question 51

Talk about :
Photian schism

Question 52

Talk about :
Abbasids

Question 53

Talk about :
Alfred the Great

Question 54

Talk about :
Kiev

Question 55

Talk about :
Vladimir

Question 56

Talk about :
serfs

Question 57

Talk about :
Slavonic/Cyrillic alphabet

Question 58

Talk about :
Baghdad

Question 59

Talk about :
Umayyad

Question 60

Talk about :
Orthodox Christianity

Question 61

The Carolingian scholar Alcuin is best noted for

A)helping to lay the foundation for medieval education.
B)his influential views on the "indissoluble nature" of marriage.
C)his emphasis on Frankish languages over classical Latin.
D)preaching against the lazy monastic orders.
E)his opposition to celibacy.

Question 62

The percentage of European land cultivated in the Early Middle Ages is estimated at

A)less than 10 percent.
B)slightly more than 20 percent.
C)35 percent.
D)50 percent.
E)slightly more than 75 percent.

Question 63

In the Early Middle Ages, the cultivation of new land was hard for all of the following reasons except

A)the heavy soils of northern Europe were difficult to plow.
B)climatic changes, including colder temperatures, shortened growing seasons.
C)crude tools of the era made land clearing arduous.
D)German tribes traditionally considered trees sacred and resisted cutting them down.
E)a and c

Question 64

Talk about :
algebra and the astrolabe

Question 65

The expansion of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne

A)was carried out with the largest army in history up to its time.
B)was most successful against the German tribes to the east.
C)resulted in the quick destruction of the Saxons.
D)resulted in the conquest of all of Europe except for Italy.
E)succeeded in capturing most of Spain from the Moors.

Question 66

Talk about :
Cordoba

Question 67

In the Middle Ages, monastic hospitality to travelers was

A)forbidden because monks were to be secluded from any contact with the outside world.
B)offered occasionally, but only with royal permission.
C)offered occasionally, but only with the permission of the abbot.
D)offered to men but not to women, as the latter were potentially too sexually threatening to the celibate monks.
E)a sacred duty.

Question 68

The staple food in the Carolingian diet was

A)bread.
B)fish.
C)beef.
D)pork.
E)vegetables.

Question 69

Charlemagne's Carolingian Renaissance was characterized by

A)outstanding creativity and original thought.
B)illuminated manuscripts written in Merovingian cursive script.
C)the works of Alcuin, who rejected all Classical educational ideals.
D)a preference for Greek over German.
E)looking to Italy for inspiration and keeping the Classical heritage alive.

Question 70

The missi dominici were officials that Charlemagne used to

A)administer the palace school at Aachen.
B)review the liturgy for errors.
C)ensure his counts were following his wishes.
D)kill prisoners of war not deemed fit for redemption.
E)patrol dangerous border districts.

Question 71

Talk about :
Avicenna

Question 72

Socially and culturally, the church's advocacy of indissoluble marriage resulted in

A)more bachelors who never married.
B)the development of the nuclear family at the expense of the extended family.
C)a great proportion of widows in communities.
D)the birth of fewer children in medieval times.
E)an rapid increase in Europe's population.

Question 73

The first Frankish king to be anointed in holy ceremony by an agent of the pope was

A)Zacharias.
B)Charlemagne.
C)Charles Martel.
D)Pepin.
E)Louis the Pious.

Question 74

Who wrote The Life of Charlemagne, an account of Charlemagne's achievements ?

A)Notker the Stammerer.
B)Alcuin of York.
C)Einhard.
D)Charlemagne.
E)Seutonius.

Question 75

Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the

A)Basques.
B)Avars.
C)Saxons.
D)Lombards.
E)Ostrogoths.

Question 76

Regarding sexuality, the Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages

A)was unable to enforce clerical celibacy.
B)accepted the practice of homosexuality, but only between adults.
C)accepted sex for the purpose of pleasure within marriage only.
D)endorsed the practice of abortion to limit the number of children.
E)discouraged marriage because it weakened the spiritual practices of Christians.

Question 77

The Carolingian monks

A)were known for the production of scriptoria , a type of paper.
B)preserved the works of Classical Latin authors through their copying of manuscripts.
C)were best known for their hospitality to travelers.
D)rejected education in favor of a life of contemplation and prayer.
E)fought in the armies of Charlemagne and his successors.

Question 78

In the early Middle Ages,

A)a large population was sustained by a thriving trading economy.
B)a small population subsisted on a limited agricultural economy.
C)a large population relied on an expanding agricultural economy.
D)a small population lived primary in cities.
E)a large population experienced economic surplus and high life expectancy.

Question 79

Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage

A)was to make it one of the sacraments.
B)was to limit sexual license and concubinage.
C)emphasized the indissolubility of marriage.
D)prohibited the marriage of priests.
E)encouraged warriors, but not peasants, to have multiple wives.

Question 80

The coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as emperor of the Romans

A)was performed by Pope Zacharias I.
B)was defended by the Donation of Constantine.
C)symbolized the fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures.
D)greatly pleased the new emperor who had long coveted this office.
E)was approved beforehand by the Byzantine Emperor.