Deck 10: Reform and Renewal in the Greater West

Question 1

The Abbasid revolution took place in

A) 622.
B) 585.
C) 750.
D) 821.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Abbasids made their capital at _______________.

Answer 2

Baghdad

Question 3

The founder of the Carolingians was

A) Charlemagne.
B) Pepin of Heristal.
C) Pepin the Short.
D) Leo II.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

_____________ defeated a Muslim army in France in 732.

Question 5

The Carolingians gained wealth by plundering__________________.

Question 6

Charlemagne ruled from

A) 768-814.
B) 689-699.
C) 712-734.
D) 894-908.

Question 7

Charlemagne wanted to unite all of Europe around a shared culture of __________.

A) Roman inheritance
B) Latin Christianity
C) Germanness
D) All of the above.

Question 8

Officials at Charlemagne's court earned their places because of noble birth.

Question 9

Charlemagne was crowned Augustus in ________.

Question 10

Charlemagne proposed an alliance to which Byzantine ruler?

A) Justinian
B) Gregory
C) Irene
D) Theodosius

Question 11

Charlemagne's son Louis began the collapse of the Carolingian empire by _______.

A) Allying with the Abbasids.
B) Attacking the Byzantine Empire.
C) Attacking the Pope.
D) Having three sons.

Question 12

Viking raids were so dangerous to Europe because _______.

A) they were unpredictable.
B) they could sail upriver.
C) their ships were fast-moving
D) all of the above

Question 13

Muslim states in North Africa attacked the Mediterranean coast of Europe in an attempt to _______.

A) carry jihad to Europe
B) carve out zones of economic interest
C) carry off slaves
D) compete with the growing power of European states.

Question 14

Manorial lords relied on dependent farmers called _________.

Question 15

Feudal bonds between lords and vassals gave the vassals

A) legitimacy.
B) wealth.
C) the right to own serfs.
D) control of the Church.

Question 16

Mediterranean cities redeveloped as

A) farming communities.
B) centers of learning.
C) monastery villages.
D) trading centers.

Question 17

__________was the rampant abuse of selling church offices.

Question 18

The Great Schism formally split

A) the eastern and western empires.
B) the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
C) the Abbasid and Umayyad Empires.
D) northern and southern Europe.

Question 19

Sufism was

A) conservative Islamic law.
B) a sect of assassins.
C) Islamic mysticism.
D) the elephant given to Charlemagne.

Question 20

The Talmud was written by

A) Jewish priests.
B) Catholic priests.
C) Jewish rabbis.
D) Laymen.