Deck 12: The Christian Empire and the Late Roman World 337-395

Question 1

The power and potential of the office of ______ became increasingly desirable for the privileged and well-educated throughout the empire.

A) decurion
B) Praetorian Prefect
C) bishop
D) aedile

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following was not a significant theological or intellectual alternative to Christianity in the fourth century?

A) Manichaeism
B) Hesychasm
C) Neoplatonism
D) Mithraism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The last great Latin historian of antiquity was the ex-army officer ______.

A) Aurelius Victor
B) Macrobius
C) Athanasius
D) Ammianus Marcellinus

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The preservation of both classical and Christian texts was furthered by the use of the ______.

A) codex
B) printing press
C) papyrus roll
D) printer's wheel

Question 5

The Arian Gothic bishop ______ was sent to convert Goths and other barbarian peoples north of the Danube to Arian Christianity.

A) Ulfilas
B) Julian
C) Ambrose
D) Origen

Question 6

Every document issued by the emperor had the force of law.

Question 7

By the fourth century, December 25, the traditional birthday of the god Mithras, had come to be accepted as the birthday of Jesus.

Question 8

The Council of Constantinople in 381 retracted the Council of Nicaea's condemnation of Arianism as heresy.

Question 9

The patron-client institution known as clientela remained as pervasive in the Late Roman Empire as it was in the days of the Roman Republic.

Question 10

According to Augustine, the bishop of Hippo, the creation of the Roman Empire was part of God's plan all along.

Question 11

The bishop Ambrose of Milan excommunicated the emperor Theodosius, who had to perform public penance in order to be readmitted to the Christian church.

Question 12

Certain enthusiastic Christians, for whom the possibility of martyrdom was no longer a real possibility, turned instead to the practice of extreme asceticism.

Question 13

In the fourth century, the populations of cities across the empire grew dramatically, as people sought refuge from troubles in the countryside and connections to the economic prosperity and security of cities.

Question 14

Monks tended to work in close collaboration with bishops, as both were invested in maintaining a fruitful balance between city life and the world of the monasteries.

Question 15

Neoplatonism, while influential among pagan thinkers, was decidedly unappealing to Christian intellectuals.