Deck 6: The Carolingian Era

Question 1

Which of the following are salient characteristics of the Carolingian world? (Select all that apply.)

A) It was north-oriented
B) It was predominantly rural
C) It was predominantly urban
D) It was Mediterranean-oriented

Answer 1

A,B

Question 2

The term ____________ refers to the cohesive Christian commonwealth under Charlemagne.

Answer 2

Christendom

Question 3

Which economic traditions continually destabilized Merovingian kingship? (Select all that apply.)

A) Dividing inheritance among multiple sons
B) Investing in a single centralized palace
C) Debasing the currency
D) Giving away wealth and land to loyal followers

Answer 3

A,D

Question 4

Which policy did Charles Martel institute to fund his military expeditions?

A) He received funding from the pope
B) He confiscated and redistributed lucrative church properties
C) He married his daughter to a wealthy warlord ally
D) He made alliances with the Islamic Empire

Question 5

Who deposed the last Merovingian king?

A) The pope
B) Pepin the Short
C) Charles Martel
D) The patriarch of Constantinople

Question 6

The forged document ___________________ justified the pope's rule over the Papal States.

Question 7

Which of Charlemagne's qualities does this statue articulate most clearly?

A) His interest in education
B) His imperial warrior persona
C) His devotion to exercise and health
D) His religious inclinations

Question 8

How did Charlemagne perceive his role within Christianity?

A) He believed he was the Church's protector and defender
B) He saw himself as humble and subordinate to the pope
C) He understood himself as divine
D) He had no interest in religion or Church affairs

Question 9

What does the style of the Palatine Chapel indicate about Charlemagne's view of his rule?

A) Architecture had no bearing on how a king was viewed
B) The glories of the East were superior to those of the West
C) He was the true heir to the Roman Empire
D) Palaces were not important to itinerant kings

Question 10

One dispute between Eastern and Western Christians surrounded the controversy over ____________, the rejection of religious images.

Question 11

Charlemagne sought to marry the first Byzantine empress ________ before she was forced into a convent.

Question 12

Which of the following formed the base of Carolingian society?

A) Urban artisans
B) Agriculture
C) International merchants
D) Mining

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a type of landworker recognized in Carolingian capitularies?

A) Lidus
B) Colonus
C) Slave
D) Missi

Question 14

What best explains the rectangular shape of Carolingian fields?

A) Heavy soil required hard-to-turn teams of oxen
B) Rectangles were important symbols to the Carolingians
C) Fields followed the natural contours of the land
D) Capitularies required standardized field shapes

Question 15

What was the primary base of a Carolingian diet?

A) Meat
B) Grains
C) Fish
D) Fresh dairy

Question 16

Which of the following most impeded Carolingian economic growth?

A) A strictly money-based economy
B) A lack of intercity trade due to the dangers of the roads
C) An unwillingness to trade with other kingdoms
D) Repeated invasions by the Islamic empire

Question 17

The English scholar __________ produced a new, edited version of St Jerome's Vulgate Bible.

Question 18

What helped make the Carolingian renewal so effective?

A) Charlemagne drew respected scholars to the intellectual hub of his court
B) Charlemagne employed only Frankish scholars and artists
C) Charlemagne played a hands-off role in the renewal
D) Charlemagne privileged secular, not religious, renewal

Question 19

What propagandistic message does this illumination communicate?

A) The links between Carolingian and Merovingian kings
B) The skill of Carolingian arists
C) The similarities between Carolingian and Biblical kings
D) The importance of musicians in Carolingian courts

Question 20

Charlemagne's imperial palace at the city of ___________ links him to ancient power by imitating the style of Roman churches.