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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
tetrarchy

Answer 2

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Question 3

Talk about:
inflation

Answer 3

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Question 4

Talk about:
Odoacer

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

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 9

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

Question 10

Talk about:
Huns, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals

Question 11

Talk about:
Theodoric

Question 12

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

Question 13

Talk about:
Edict of Milan

Question 14

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

Question 15

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 16

Talk about:
Valens

Question 17

Talk about:
Theodosius

Question 18

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"?

Question 19

Talk about:
federates

Question 20

Talk about:
curiales

Question 21

Talk about:
abbots and abbesses

Question 22

Talk about:
monasticism

Question 23

Talk about:
Charles Martel

Question 24

Talk about:
vicar of Christ

Question 25

Talk about:
Saint Anthony

Question 26

Talk about:
Saint Augustine's The City of God

Question 27

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Arianism

Question 28

Talk about:
Council of Nicaea

Question 29

Talk about:
compurgation and ordeal

Question 30

Talk about:
heresy

Question 31

Talk about:
diocese

Question 32

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Franks

Question 33

Talk about:
Clovis

Question 34

Talk about:
Petrine supremacy

Question 35

Talk about:
wergeld

Question 36

Talk about:
monks and nuns

Question 37

Talk about:
Gregory I, the Great

Question 38

Talk about:
major domus

Question 39

Talk about:
Rule of Saint Benedict

Question 40

Talk about:
celibacy

Question 41

Talk about:
Muhammad

Question 42

Talk about:
icons/iconoclastic

Question 43

Talk about:
liberal arts, trivium, and quadrivium

Question 44

Talk about:
Corpus Iuris Civilis

Question 45

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Allah

Question 46

Talk about:
Saint Jerome and the Vulgate

Question 47

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Cassiodorus

Question 48

Talk about:
Arabia

Question 49

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Procopius

Question 50

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Theodora

Question 51

Talk about:
Venerable Bede

Question 52

Talk about:
Hagia Sophia and Hippodrome

Question 53

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Justinian

Question 54

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St. Patrick

Question 55

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Qur'an

Question 56

Talk about:
Hegira

Question 57

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Byzantine Empire

Question 58

Talk about:
Five Pillars of Islam

Question 59

Talk about:
Shari'a

Question 60

Talk about:
Saint Boniface

Question 61

Talk about:
Shi'ites and Sunnites

Question 62

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 63

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 64

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 65

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 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

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 68

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 69

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 70

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 71

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 72

Talk about:
caliph

Question 73

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 74

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 75

In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by

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

Question 76

Talk about:
jihad

Question 77

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 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 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 80

Talk about:
Umayyads