Deck 6: The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions

Question 1

Examining the treatment of their subjects by the Islamic rulers, one would note that

A) Jews and Christians could testify in court against a Muslim.
B) Jews, but not Christians, were considered protected groups.
C) generally, the Islamic people had a policy of persecution of other faiths.
D) Jews were victimized by nasty stereotypes and caricatures.
E) Christians and Jews had to pay a special tax.

Answer 1

Christians and Jews had to pay a special tax.

Question 2

The Roman and Greek Orthodox clergy disagreed on each of the following issues except

A) the practice of the Mass.
B) the power of the papacy.
C) ceremonial differences.
D) holy days.
E) the display of images.

Answer 2

the practice of the Mass.

Question 3

One may correctly describe Byzantine civilization as

A) being predominantly Islamic.
B) being economically more advanced than the Latin West.
C) letting the cultural life lag while pursuing trade.
D) being centered upon Cairo.
E) accepting the Pope as head of all Christians.

Answer 3

being economically more advanced than the Latin West.

Question 4

Nunneries of the Middle Ages provided an outlet for the talents of unmarried

A) wenches.
B) peasants.
C) middle-class women.
D) serfs.
E) noblewomen.

Question 5

Muslims affirm each of the following except they

A) see their religion as the completion and perfection of Judaism and Christianity.
B) regard the ancient Hebrew prophets as messengers of God and value their message of compassion and the oneness of humanity.
C) acknowledge Jesus as great prophet but do not consider him divine.
D) worship only Allah, the creator of heaven and earth.
E) view Muhammad as the least important prophet.

Question 6

Who was responsible for the codification of the laws of ancient Rome?

A) Justinian
B) Theodoric
C) Boethius
D) Charlemagne
E) Constantine

Question 7

The Arabs' failure to take Constantinople in the late seventh and early eighth centuries was extremely important for later history because it

A) signaled the onset of Muslim decline.
B) provoked Latin Crusaders to attempt the reconquest of the Holy Land.
C) meant that Islam would not advance into the Balkans for another 700 years.
D) inspired Virgil to write the Aeneid.
E) meant Islam will never be accepted by westerners.

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT a part of the group of invaders that threatened Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries?

A) Vikings.
B) Muslims.
C) Vandals.
D) Magyars
E) Northmen.

Question 9

The Fourth Crusade at the beginning of the thirteenth century

A) recaptured Jerusalem.
B) never left port in Venice.
C) captured Antioch.
D) sacked Constantinople.
E) captured Edessa.

Question 10

The existence of the serfs was

A) likely to be dismal.
B) based on the need for protection that the lord could provide.
C) marred by the contempt that was felt for them.
D) likely to be too weak to resist the encroachment of local magnates.
E) All of these were true of the serfs' condition.

Question 11

Which of the following does NOT describe the gradual differences that eventually separated Latin Christendom and Byzantium?

A) Byzantium eventually adopted the Persian language.
B) Rome refused to recognize Byzantine emperors.
C) Byzantine emperors ruled over a theocracy.
D) Iconography became an issue between the two churches
E) With time, Byzantine became more Eastern in culture.

Question 12

Under the leadership of Theodoric the Great

A) powerful aristocratic Roman families still held government offices.
B) the Roman Senate was eliminated.
C) those schools that still existed were destroyed.
D) the pope was forced into exile.
E) Roman civilization was destroyed.

Question 13

Boethius contributed to European civilization by

A) writing The City of God.
B) rejecting philosophy for more pragmatic approaches to contemporary needs.
C) translating into Latin Aristotle's treatises on logic.
D) urging that philosophers abandon the classical tradition.
E) helping to start the monastic practice of copying classical texts.

Question 14

The term liege homage means

A) a small castle.
B) the wooden grid that fell down, blocking a drawbridge entrance.
C) the area of the castle where food was stored.
D) prime loyalty.
E) sole owner.

Question 15

Which is least associated with the era of Charlemagne?

A) Carolingian Renaissance
B) Palace school
C) Treaty of Verdun
D) Leo III
E) Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity

Question 16

Which of the following terms refers to the governmental structure of the Middle Ages?

A) Tutelege
B) Manorialism
C) Homage
D) Vassalage
E) Feudalism

Question 17

Which of the following women was inspired by the Roman poet Terrence to write six dramas⎯the first since Roman times?

A) Hroswitha
B) Eleanor
C) Joan
D) Isabel
E) Sempronia

Question 18

The Treaty of ____ marked the beginning of Germany.

A) Tours
B) Verdun
C) Strasburg
D) Wuerzburg
E) Worms

Question 19

____ collected Greek and Latin manuscripts and helped start the monastic practice of copying classical texts.

A) Isidore of Seville
B) Boethius
C) Theodoric
D) Cassiodorus
E) Alcuin

Question 20

In the fifth century, German invaders founded kingdoms in all the following areas except

A) North Africa.
B) the Balkans.
C) Italy.
D) Spain.
E) Gaul.

Question 21

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
theocracy

Question 22

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Clovis

Question 23

Which of the following was a significant development for businessmen of the High Middle Ages?

A) Double-entry bookkeeping
B) Commercial law
C) Bills of exchange
D) The development of banking and credit instruments
E) All of these aided businessmen of the High Middle Ages

Question 24

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
"People of the book"

Question 25

The foremost Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages was

A) David Ben Gurion.
B) Peter Waldo.
C) Peter the Hermit.
D) Moses ben Maimon.
E) Ben Gurion.

Question 26

Pope ____ clashed with King Henry IV in what became known as the Investiture Controversy.

A) Nicholas II
B) Gregory VII
C) Urban II
D) Boniface
E) Calixtus

Question 27

The Magna Carta was important because

A) kings could not declare a war without referring to the pope.
B) it freed serfs and peasants from being forced to serve in the military.
C) it established the foundation recognizing basic rights and liberties.
D) it established the office of prime minister.
E) the kings were removed as the head of the church.

Question 28

When the Carolingian line was extinguished, the lords of France offered the title of king to

A) Philip.
B) William.
C) Hugh.
D) Louis.
E) Otto.

Question 29

​The English King that signed the Magna Carta was

A) ​King John
B) ​King Henry II
C) ​King Richard I
D) ​King Charles II
E) ​King William

Question 30

It may be said of the High Middle Ages that

A) manorial farmland was still sufficient for the population.
B) the power of the Roman pope was declining.
C) a growing spiritual vitality accompanied the economic recovery and increased political stability.
D) it was a period of irreligion.
E) it was a time of spiritual retrogression.

Question 31

Attitudes toward the Jewish community in medieval Europe were predicated upon the belief that

A) all Jews for all time were guilty of deicide.
B) Jews practiced ritual killing of Christian children.
C) Jews crucified Jesus
D) Jews were responsible for the Black Plague
E) All of these were charged against Jews.

Question 32

In 962, emulating the coronation of Charlemagne, the pope crowned ____"Emperor of the Romans."

A) Hugh
B) John
C) Otto
D) Henry 1
E) Frederick

Question 33

Judging by the Domesday Book, which European monarch had the best knowledge of his kingdom's economic assets in the late eleventh century A.D.?

A) Louis IX of France
B) John of England
C) Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire
D) William the Conqueror of England
E) Henry I

Question 34

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Muhammad

Question 35

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Ottoman Empire

Question 36

Which of the following does NOT describe the history of the Crusades?

A) increased the wealth of the Italian cities that furnished transportation and benefited from the trade with the East.
B) contributed to the decline of feudalism and strengthened the European monarchy.
C) did not lead to the massacre of Muslims and Jews.
D) inspired idealism and heroism in the West.
E) sparked an interest in geography and travel.

Question 37

All of the following brought about the revival of trade in the Middle Ages except

A) expanding agricultural production.
B) the end of the Viking attacks.
C) greater political stability.
D) increasing population.
E) unwillingness of serfs to move from their customary homes and fields to new lands.

Question 38

What was the attitude of lords to peasants opening wastelands to cultivation?

A) They discouraged it for fear of a drain on labor available to them.
B) They encouraged it by promising serfs freedom in exchange for moving to new lands.
C) They confiscated newly opened land from peasants and enserfed them.
D) They encouraged it by offering to buy the land from the peasants once it was improved.
E) They threatened to increase the services of serfs who moved to the new lands.

Question 39

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Charles Martel

Question 40

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Koran

Question 41

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Gregorian Reform

Question 42

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
William the Conqueror

Question 43

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Waldensians

Question 44

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Hugh Capet

Question 45

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Abbasid caliphs

Question 46

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Henry IV

Question 47

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Catharism

Question 48

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Carolingian Renaissance

Question 49

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Peter Waldo

Question 50

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Saladin

Question 51

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Peter the Hermit

Question 52

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
guilds

Question 53

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Seljuk Turks

Question 54

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Concordat of Worms

Question 55

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

On a map of Europe, locate the two Christian capitals at the end of the Roman Empire.

Question 56

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Pope Urban II

Question 57

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
excommunication

Question 58

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Vikings

Question 59

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Philip Augustus

Question 60

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Francis of Assisi

Question 61

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Refer to two heresies that faced the Christian Church during the High Middle Ages. Explain their teachings and evaluate the threat posed to the unity of the church.

Question 62

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

What was feudalism and why did it develop in medieval Europe?

Question 63

The economic foundation of Feudalism was​

A) ​Capitalism
B) ​Merchantialism
C) ​Manorialism
D) ​Utopianism
E) ​Agrarianism

Question 64

Besides just saving examples of Roman and Greek intellectual heritage, Boethius

A) ​tried to join faith and reason​
B) ​recreated Socrates schools in Athens​
C) ​stopped the spread of Christianity​
D) ​rejected Christendom in favor of Islam​
E) ​led Germanic armies into Greece to restore order

Question 65

​In 800, Pope Leo III crowned _________ Emperor of the Romans.

A) ​Pepin the Short
B) ​Louis the Pious
C) ​Charles Martel
D) ​Charlemagne
E) ​Alcuin of York

Question 66

​The term Carolingian refers to people descendant from

A) ​Charlemage
B) ​Charles Martel
C) ​Carol of Abbey
D) ​Clovis
E) ​Pope Charles I

Question 67

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

What were some of the powers that the medieval papacy could exert to enforce its will?

Question 68

All of the following statements are true of the three-field system except

A) ​only two-thirds of the land was used in a given year
B) ​it increased the amount of land farmed
C) ​diversification of crops added more vegetable protein
D) ​was mostly used in Southern Europe
E) ​left one-third of the land fallow each year

Question 69

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

On a Map of Europe, label the modern day nations resulting from the Treaty of Verdun.

Question 70

​The capital of Byzantium was

A) ​Athens
B) ​Jerusalem
C) ​Cairo
D) ​Constantinople
E) ​Rome

Question 71

In exchange for a Lord's protection and a fief a vassal duties included all except​

A) ​providing lodging if the Lord was travelling
B) ​supplying knights
C) ​serving on the Lord's courts
D) ​only serving one Lord
E) ​presenting gifts if the Lord's son was knighted

Question 72

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

On a map of Europe locate the sites associated with the following

A)
Charles Martel's victory over the Muslims
B)
The Church of Hagia Sophia.
C)
The territory of William the Conqueror.

Question 73

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

How did the Carolingians change Europe? You should consider its political, cultural, and intellectual effect on Europe.

Question 74

The Koran holds that Jesus​ was

A) ​the son of God and therefore divine
B) ​a great prophet but not divine
C) ​not the son of God but was divine
D) ​a deceiver of the Jewish people
E) ​a mythical figure that never lived

Question 75

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Explain how the Christian Church became the cementing factor of Western civilization during the Middle Ages.

Question 76

The Fiver Pillars of Islam include all but the following​

A) ​a believer must face Mecca and pray five times a day
B) ​must be generous to the poor
C) refrain from eat or drink from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan
D) ​participate in Jihad against infidels
E) ​complete pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 77

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

How "holy" were the holy wars or Crusades?

Question 78

The Frankish leader that converted to Roman Catholicism was​

A) ​Charlemagne
B) ​Pepin
C) ​Clovis
D) ​Charles Martel
E) ​Boniface

Question 79

​The following reasons explain why Roman Empire survived in the east and not in the west except

A) ​the east was more urbanized
B) ​the east was wealthier
C) ​the west had fewer people
D) ​the west suffered greater invasions from Germanic tribes
E) ​the east had rejected Christianity

Question 80

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Discuss the life of a serf and his family under the feudal-manorial system?