Deck 6: The Transformation of Rome

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When the emperor Commodus was assassinated in 192,civil war engulfed the Roman Empire,with _________ eventually claiming the throne.

A) Septimius Severus
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Antonius Pius
D) Aramaic Emesa
E) Romulus Augustus
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According to the discipline of history,faiths:

A) are the products of historical processes.
B) are unchanging.
C) cannot be adequately studied by historical methods.
D) are the products of superstition.
E) ought not to be the focus of serious historical inquiry.
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Which statement best describes the position of the Pharisees in Palestine during the first century C.E.?

A) The Pharisees adopted the radical teachings of the Essenes.
B) The Pharisees rejected the authority of the Romans and denied them a voice in selecting new high priests for the Temple.
C) The Pharisees believed that they possessed special knowledge of an oral Torah told by Moses.
D) The Pharisees were among the first and most enthusiastic converts to Christianity.
E) The Pharisees rejected the possibility of an imminent arrival of the Messiah.
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The tetrarchy was the split of the Roman Empire into halves and the creation of:

A) a single Augustus who ruled the wealthy East and a caesar who ruled the West.
B) two augustuses who ruled the East and two caesars who ruled the West.
C) an augustus and a caesar in both the East and the West.
D) a single augustus who ruled the troublesome West and a caesar who ruled the East.
E) an augustus to rule the empire, with four caesars to rule the four quadrants of the empire.
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Jesus's emphasis on observing the ethical requirements of the law rather than the letter of the law encouraged his followers to:

A) stop paying taxes to Caesar.
B) love their neighbors and forgive those who wronged them.
C) deemphasize traditional Jewish purity laws.
D) revolt against the Roman government in Judea.
E) be pacifists.
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The crisis of the early third century was precipitated by:

A) the harmonious state of affairs created by the rule of the Five Good Emperors.
B) none of the Five Good Emperors having a male heir to whom to leave the throne.
C) the economic collapse of the Roman Empire in 180 caused by the death of Marcus Aurelius.
D) the retreat from the eastern frontier and violent tendencies of Hadrian's successor, Commodus.
E) the retreat from the eastern frontier and the violent tendencies of Marcus Aurelius's son, Commodus.
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The gospel accounts of Jesus's life:

A) were written before Paul's letters.
B) contain a description of Jesus's miracles, but not his death and resurrection.
C) form (when combined with the Hebrew Torah) the Christian New Testament.
D) were probably written between 70 and 100 C.E.
E) contain the historical facts of Jesus's life but do not include his miracles.
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Economic reforms introduced by the early fourth-century Roman Empire included:

A) a single paper currency that could be used throughout the empire.
B) legislation allowing agricultural and urban workers to change their jobs.
C) further cutbacks in military spending to meet the budget.
D) wage and price controls fixed by the government.
E) tax cuts for businesses and a rudimentary form of retirement pensions.
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Which statement best describes the position of the Sadducees in Palestine during the first century C.E.?

A) The Sadducees closely allied themselves with the Roman rulers of Judea.
B) The Sadducees rejected the authority of the Romans and refused their assistance in selecting new high priests for the Temple.
C) The Sadducees believed in life after death and a system of individual rewards and punishments.
D) The Sadducees were among the first and most enthusiastic converts to Christianity.
E) The Sadducees believed all Jewish people had the right to interpret the Torah.
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By 300 C.E.,Christians accounted for no more than 10 percent of the population of the Roman Empire; this low percentage might be due to:

A) eastern mystery religions holding a much greater appeal for ordinary people.
B) the Manicheans who served in the army and persecuted Christians.
C) Diocletian's policy of persecuting any group deemed to be subversive.
D) the emperor converting to Zoroastrianism and outlawing all other religions.
E) the fact that Christianity only appealed to the wealthiest citizens in Rome.
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In order to ensure that armies no longer had the power to choose emperors,Diocletian:

A) asked soldiers to swear oaths of loyalty directly to the emperor.
B) limited the size of the Roman Army.
C) passed laws stipulating that a commander of an army could never be named emperor.
D) severed military and political chains of command, making it more difficult for armies to influence politics.
E) ensured that emperors would always be elected by the Senate.
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As seen in the life of Perpetua,Christianity challenged the traditional Roman values of:

A) living a life of stoic virtue.
B) obedience to the Roman gods and one's ancestors.
C) independence and antiauthoritarian beliefs.
D) political and social equality for all.
E) hedonism.
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According to historical interpretations,Jesus was crucified because he:

A) was convicted of sedition by a Roman governor.
B) desired to become a martyr for his faith.
C) was convicted of theft.
D) was mistaken for another man who was a criminal.
E) was convicted of preaching publicly against the laws of Judea.
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When Diocletian took power:

A) he declared support for Christianity and echoed Constantine's program of toleration to strengthen his empire.
B) he followed Augustus's image of princeps rather than domus to alleviate fears of his imperial ambition and worked alongside the Senate and military to at least give the illusion of a republican government.
C) he shamelessly elevated his own family and friends to prestigious offices and used his power over the military to keep the empire in check.
D) he isolated himself from ordinary business and people and introduced an eastern style of rule, wearing a diadem and purple robes.
E) he invaded the territory of the Germanic tribes across the Danube in the East and the Rhine in the West to finally end the barbarians' threat to the empire.
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Jesus is the central figure in Christianity,but Paul was important:

A) first as a persecutor, then a follower, and finally a heretic.
B) for successfully arguing that Jewish religious laws need not apply to Christians.
C) because he wrote the Gospels, Epistles, and teachings of the apostles.
D) in arguing that women should be allowed to speak in church.
E) in serving as the first Christian leader in Rome; the first pope.
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Roman borders were:

A) clearly demarcated and defended.
B) protected by a system of walls and palisades.
C) sites of constant warfare.
D) completely undefended.
E) porous and thus more symbolic than actual.
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Realizing that the Roman Empire had become too large for a single ruler to control it:

A) Constantine divided the empire in half and appointed a co-emperor to rule the western part.
B) Constantine built a new capital city named Constantinople in Palestine.
C) Diocletian divided the empire in half and appointed a co-emperor to rule the western part.
D) Diocletian resigned his position as emperor and encouraged the development of regional republics.
E) Diocletian abandoned some of the most marginal provinces of the Roman Empire such as Egypt and Britannia.
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Christianity was attractive to cosmopolitan Greeks because:

A) Jesus's teachings were similar to those of Aristotle.
B) many Greek people practiced Eastern mystery religions with which early Christianity shared characteristics.
C) many Greeks were Stoics, a philosophy that shared many characteristics with early Christianity.
D) the stories of Jesus's life were similar to those of the Trojan heroes.
E) it helped the Greeks reconcile themselves to rule by the Romans.
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During the third century,Rome underwent a prolonged period that came very close to destroying the empire.This period is known as the time of:

A) the Pax Romana, when the Huns sacked Rome.
B) the quickening, when the bureaucratic changes came rapidly.
C) the Five Bad Emperors, when Rome had the worst emperors in its history.
D) the Augustan decay, when all the reforms of Marcus Aurelius were implemented.
E) the Barracks Emperors, when Rome had no fewer than twenty-six emperors in about fifty years.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls have helped historians to understand the religious climate of the first century C.E.by:

A) describing Jewish life after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
B) providing concrete evidence about the life and ministry of Jesus.
C) demonstrating the diversity of Jewish religious practice and belief.
D) proving that most of the first century converts to Christianity were Jews.
E) describing the infighting between the various Jewish sects of the first century C.E.
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The differences between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire:

A) in culture, economy, and language were great and grew larger over time.
B) became less significant as Constantine and his sons reunited the whole.
C) helped landowners use profits in the West to buy up small farms in the East.
D) did not matter when the capital was in the center, between Europe and Asia.
E) were only superficial and did not affect relations between the citizens of the empire.
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What were the general results of the doctrinal quarrels of the early centuries?

A) Many new churches and sects were started, increasing public understanding.
B) Believers had to be either with the Church or against it on every issue.
C) Regional antagonisms were reduced as people concentrated on big questions.
D) The dogmas of the Christian Church gradually became fixed.
E) The Christian Church was irrevocably split between East and West by 300 C.E.
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By the end of the third century,the involvement of women in the Church had:

A) grown to the point that women occupied many of the new bishoprics created in the empire.
B) changed little from the early days of the Church, with women in a few positions of power.
C) changed little from the early days of the Church, but now women could become priests.
D) remained exactly the same, with women continuing as deacons and other positions of power.
E) shrunk to the point that they were completely excluded from all positions of power.
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Christianity went from being a persecuted faith in the early fourth century to being the recognized faith of the empire; this last step was the result of the action by the emperor:

A) Theodosius, who prohibited pagan worship.
B) Julian, who earned the title "Apostate" for his great piety.
C) Romulus Augustus, who dismantled the temple to Romana.
D) Theodoric, who destroyed the sacred altar to Victory.
E) Alaric, who persecuted pagans as they had persecuted Christians.
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The traditional date for the "fall" of Rome is:

A) 526 C.E., when Emperor Theodore died.
B) 476 C.E., when Odovacer toppled Emperor Romulus Augustus.
C) 410 C.E., when Alaric sacked the city of Rome.
D) 312 C.E., when Constantine defeated Emperor Maxentius.
E) 284 C.E., when Diocletian reorganized the empire.
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Peace was restored after the battle of Adrianople when:

A) the Roman Army routed a Gothic Army.
B) the Roman Empire met the Goths' demand for food and land.
C) a Gothic Army defeated a Roman Army.
D) the Romans ceded control of the Danube to the Goths.
E) the Goths attacked Rome.
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Odovacar's removal of Romulus Augustus resulted in the Eastern Roman Empire:

A) asking Theodoric, a Goth, to lead an imperially equipped army against Odovacar.
B) doing nothing to try and depose Odovacar.
C) acknowledging Odoacer as the rightful ruler of the Western Roman Empire.
D) rescuing the pope and bringing him to Constantinople.
E) moving the capital of the Western Roman Empire to Paris.
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Before Constantine,Christianity:

A) had a single-faith tradition.
B) was a sect of Judaism.
C) had diffuse and unregulated faith traditions.
D) was not a missionizing faith.
E) was a sect of Zoroastrianism.
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The roots of Rome's leadership of the Western Church partially lie in:

A) the imperial order of Constantine at the Council of Nicaea.
B) a passage from the New Testament Gospel of Matthew.
C) the Greek practice of nominating a patriarch to administer a city.
D) the general agreement among fourth-century bishops that one leader should speak for the Church.
E) the Roman Senate's promotion of the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church.
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What point was in dispute between the Arians and Christian orthodoxy?

A) whether Jesus was of the same being and substance as God the Father
B) whether human beings can earn a heavenly reward through good works
C) whether communion bread and wine really change into Christ's body and blood
D) whether Jesus died to save all human beings, Christian or not
E) whether an individual needed to convert to Judaism before converting to Christianity
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The Christian label for non-Christians is indicative of its _________ origin.

A) Roman
B) Jewish
C) rural
D) urban
E) Byzantine
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After Christianity became legal under Constantine and his successors:

A) Christians began to celebrate their sexuality.
B) ascetic practices were adopted by women only because they were seen as more sinful.
C) ascetic practices were adopted by both men and women.
D) Christians were strongly encouraged to marry and have children.
E) ascetic practices were adopted by men only as they were seen as more sinful.
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Once the Christian Church gained ascendancy in the Roman Empire,the highest authority in deciding doctrine was:

A) the Bishop of Rome, who was the pope.
B) the emperor, as a newly styled pontifex maximus of the Christian Church.
C) the Christian leader of Christianity's holiest city, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
D) the leader of the church in Constantinople, the Patriarch of Constantinople.
E) the Christian believers.
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Many Greek philosophies gained large numbers of Roman adherents and shared several tenets,but the one that was instrumental in influencing Christian theology was:

A) Neoplatonism.
B) Skepticism.
C) Stoicism.
D) Epicureanism.
E) Pythagoreanism.
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The Eastern Roman Empire lost tax revenue as a result of Germanic migrations because:

A) the Germanic peoples killed many citizens of Rome.
B) the Germanic people assassinated tax collectors so money remained in the West.
C) powerful Germanic people set up their own kingdoms and collected their own taxes in the West.
D) the Germanic peoples forbade Roman citizens to pay taxes to the East.
E) people had no money.
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After their defeat of Rome,the Goths split into many different groups and moved on to settle many areas in Europe; those who moved into the area of Spain and southern France were known as the:

A) Visigoths.
B) Vandals.
C) Ostrogoths.
D) Franks.
E) Burgundians.
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Jerome's most lasting contribution to Western Christian culture was:

A) his translation of the Bible into Latin.
B) his support for monasticism.
C) his translations of Greek philosophical works.
D) his support for the authority of the pope.
E) the humble piety he brought to the papacy.
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Romans regarded the Germans as barbarians because:

A) Germans were nomads, who lacked settled agriculture.
B) Germans were foreigners, unknown to the Romans until the fourth century C.E.
C) German society was illiterate, and Germans did not live in cities.
D) Germans had no interest in trade, only in plunder.
E) Germans were warlike and cruel.
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The fourth-century interest in "orthodoxy" among Christian intellectuals arose from:

A) a belief that Christians could arrive at an absolute understanding of the world and everything in it.
B) an agreement among Christian bishops and leaders that there were core matters of faith that could be acknowledged.
C) a powerful Roman papacy that could finally enforce Christian orthodoxy.
D) a series of pagan emperors who persecuted Christians and attacked their theology and style of worship.
E) the need to show that Christianity could withstand the philosophical scrutiny of Greek and Roman traditions.
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Once Constantine had converted to Christianity:

A) he never looked back to paganism.
B) government employees and soldiers in the Roman army soon converted.
C) Rome began a series of crusades to convert all nonbelievers in the empire.
D) the main points of doctrine were settled, and a harmonious age began.
E) it gained prestige and thus adherents.
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In 305 C.E.Diocletian retired to Croatia to raise cabbages.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls emphasize the homogeneity and strict observance of Jewish religious practice around the time of Jesus.
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In Late Antiquity,the pope enjoyed acknowledgment and support for his primacy from the other western bishops.
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Benedict's monastic rule differed from Basil's rule because it:

A) required monks to live in communities, not as isolated hermits.
B) required sexual chastity of all monks except the abbot.
C) emphasized the value of work.
D) was less austere and more moderate in its demands for monastic life.
E) mandated that all monasteries be economically self-sufficient.
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Constantine made Christianity the sole religion of the empire in 316 C.E.
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Augustine is recognized as one of the greatest early fathers of Christianity and Christian thinkers of all time; he believed that what he did was to:

A) create simple rules for people to follow in order to emulate the life of Jesus.
B) establish broad guidelines within which people could find their own way to faith.
C) draw out the basic truths from the Bible so that people could understand the text.
D) defend the Church against pagan philosophers who tried to show the weaknesses of Christian thought.
E) establish a monastic order teaching that the way to salvation was to remove oneself from the world.
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Constantine seemed to envision a united Rome after his death as he gave the empire as a whole to his eldest son,disinheriting the younger two in order to prevent civil war.
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Augustine's theological ideas revolved around:

A) the proper powers of rulers in a Christian empire.
B) human sinfulness and divine omnipotence.
C) the sacramental powers of the Church.
D) the fall of Rome.
E) childlike innocence when approaching the divine.
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Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy is a(n):

A) thoroughly non-Christian text that was banned by the early Church.
B) excellent example of the pairing of classical philosophy and the Christian worldview.
C) mystical Christian text of revelation.
D) account of Boethius's conversion to Christianity.
E) account of Boethius's trial for treason.
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The monastic way of life in the West was influenced greatly by establishing a set of rules written by:

A) Basil.
B) Benedict.
C) Boethius.
D) Cassiodorus.
E) Augustine.
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The Zealots were a group of Jews who led revolts against the Romans in Judea.
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On the City of God:

A) was a systematic account of Church dogma written by Ambrose, patriarch of Milan.
B) is the title of Jerome's commentary on his translation of the Bible into Latin.
C) was Augustine's autobiographical account of his experiences as bishop of Hippo.
D) was a defense of Christianity as a philosophical system by Ambrose.
E) was a new, Christian interpretation of human history by Augustine.
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Constantinople remained the political and economic center of the Roman Empire until 476,when it fell to the Goths.
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An early account of Christ's life is attributed to Mary Magdalene.
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Ambrose argued that the Roman emperor was:

A) above the Church.
B) an enemy of the Church.
C) outside the Church.
D) a defender of the Church.
E) within the Church.
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Historians now refer to the period from 284 to 610 C.E.as Late Antiquity because:

A) while the western half of the empire had fallen, the eastern Roman Empire was still flourishing.
B) it is a period with its own themes and developments, not wholly Roman and not yet medieval.
C) all Roman institutions had been abandoned or destroyed.
D) the term Dark Ages refers only to the literature of the period contrasted with classical literature.
E) while the eastern part of the empire had fallen, the Western Roman Empire was still flourishing.
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Women played prominent roles in the early Christian Church.
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One reason for including classical texts in the education of Christians by the fourth century was:

A) the failure of the Church to win new adherents once it had been legalized by the state.
B) the lack of any Christian texts that could allow converts to understand the Christian articles of faith.
C) the lack of any Christian texts on mathematics, ethics, or logic.
D) the desire of Christian intellectuals to be regarded as philosophers and to make classical learning applicable to a Christian way of life.
E) to show that classical pagan beliefs could easily be reconciled with Christian beliefs.
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Byzantium was of little strategic import when Constantine moved his capital there in 324 C.E.
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Augustine's Confessions is a(n):

A) series of explanations of his actions throughout his life.
B) book detailing his actions as a young man and asking his mother for forgiveness.
C) account of Augustine's defense at his trial for heresy.
D) series of autobiographical essays directed toward God.
E) book that set forth the doctrines of the Church.
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Jerome's longest lasting contribution to Western society was his Vulgate translation of the Bible.
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Explain the implications of the Council of Nicaea.
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Augustine believed all Christians would be saved by Jesus' sacrifice.
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Why was Christianity attractive to the Greeks and Romans?
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Was the division between the eastern and western empires only geographic? Explain.
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To what extent did Rome fall in 476 C.E.?
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What role did women play in the early Church? Why did this role change?
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Boethius was executed for his controversial work on faith and reason,The Consolation of Philosophy.
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The Goths revolted in 378 due to Roman interference in the Frankish Church.
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To what extent were the Germanic peoples of early medieval Europe Romanized?
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What was the place of education and faith in Late Antiquity/the early Middle Ages?
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In what ways did Diocletian attempt to revitalize Rome?
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How did monasticism change in Late Antiquity?
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Explain to what extent the actions and teachings of Jesus were revolutionary.
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Cassiodorus's Institutes was a list of essential classical and pagan literature a monk should know.
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Deck 6: The Transformation of Rome
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When the emperor Commodus was assassinated in 192,civil war engulfed the Roman Empire,with _________ eventually claiming the throne.

A) Septimius Severus
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Antonius Pius
D) Aramaic Emesa
E) Romulus Augustus
Septimius Severus
2
According to the discipline of history,faiths:

A) are the products of historical processes.
B) are unchanging.
C) cannot be adequately studied by historical methods.
D) are the products of superstition.
E) ought not to be the focus of serious historical inquiry.
are the products of historical processes.
3
Which statement best describes the position of the Pharisees in Palestine during the first century C.E.?

A) The Pharisees adopted the radical teachings of the Essenes.
B) The Pharisees rejected the authority of the Romans and denied them a voice in selecting new high priests for the Temple.
C) The Pharisees believed that they possessed special knowledge of an oral Torah told by Moses.
D) The Pharisees were among the first and most enthusiastic converts to Christianity.
E) The Pharisees rejected the possibility of an imminent arrival of the Messiah.
The Pharisees believed that they possessed special knowledge of an oral Torah told by Moses.
4
The tetrarchy was the split of the Roman Empire into halves and the creation of:

A) a single Augustus who ruled the wealthy East and a caesar who ruled the West.
B) two augustuses who ruled the East and two caesars who ruled the West.
C) an augustus and a caesar in both the East and the West.
D) a single augustus who ruled the troublesome West and a caesar who ruled the East.
E) an augustus to rule the empire, with four caesars to rule the four quadrants of the empire.
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Jesus's emphasis on observing the ethical requirements of the law rather than the letter of the law encouraged his followers to:

A) stop paying taxes to Caesar.
B) love their neighbors and forgive those who wronged them.
C) deemphasize traditional Jewish purity laws.
D) revolt against the Roman government in Judea.
E) be pacifists.
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The crisis of the early third century was precipitated by:

A) the harmonious state of affairs created by the rule of the Five Good Emperors.
B) none of the Five Good Emperors having a male heir to whom to leave the throne.
C) the economic collapse of the Roman Empire in 180 caused by the death of Marcus Aurelius.
D) the retreat from the eastern frontier and violent tendencies of Hadrian's successor, Commodus.
E) the retreat from the eastern frontier and the violent tendencies of Marcus Aurelius's son, Commodus.
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7
The gospel accounts of Jesus's life:

A) were written before Paul's letters.
B) contain a description of Jesus's miracles, but not his death and resurrection.
C) form (when combined with the Hebrew Torah) the Christian New Testament.
D) were probably written between 70 and 100 C.E.
E) contain the historical facts of Jesus's life but do not include his miracles.
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Economic reforms introduced by the early fourth-century Roman Empire included:

A) a single paper currency that could be used throughout the empire.
B) legislation allowing agricultural and urban workers to change their jobs.
C) further cutbacks in military spending to meet the budget.
D) wage and price controls fixed by the government.
E) tax cuts for businesses and a rudimentary form of retirement pensions.
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Which statement best describes the position of the Sadducees in Palestine during the first century C.E.?

A) The Sadducees closely allied themselves with the Roman rulers of Judea.
B) The Sadducees rejected the authority of the Romans and refused their assistance in selecting new high priests for the Temple.
C) The Sadducees believed in life after death and a system of individual rewards and punishments.
D) The Sadducees were among the first and most enthusiastic converts to Christianity.
E) The Sadducees believed all Jewish people had the right to interpret the Torah.
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By 300 C.E.,Christians accounted for no more than 10 percent of the population of the Roman Empire; this low percentage might be due to:

A) eastern mystery religions holding a much greater appeal for ordinary people.
B) the Manicheans who served in the army and persecuted Christians.
C) Diocletian's policy of persecuting any group deemed to be subversive.
D) the emperor converting to Zoroastrianism and outlawing all other religions.
E) the fact that Christianity only appealed to the wealthiest citizens in Rome.
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In order to ensure that armies no longer had the power to choose emperors,Diocletian:

A) asked soldiers to swear oaths of loyalty directly to the emperor.
B) limited the size of the Roman Army.
C) passed laws stipulating that a commander of an army could never be named emperor.
D) severed military and political chains of command, making it more difficult for armies to influence politics.
E) ensured that emperors would always be elected by the Senate.
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As seen in the life of Perpetua,Christianity challenged the traditional Roman values of:

A) living a life of stoic virtue.
B) obedience to the Roman gods and one's ancestors.
C) independence and antiauthoritarian beliefs.
D) political and social equality for all.
E) hedonism.
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According to historical interpretations,Jesus was crucified because he:

A) was convicted of sedition by a Roman governor.
B) desired to become a martyr for his faith.
C) was convicted of theft.
D) was mistaken for another man who was a criminal.
E) was convicted of preaching publicly against the laws of Judea.
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When Diocletian took power:

A) he declared support for Christianity and echoed Constantine's program of toleration to strengthen his empire.
B) he followed Augustus's image of princeps rather than domus to alleviate fears of his imperial ambition and worked alongside the Senate and military to at least give the illusion of a republican government.
C) he shamelessly elevated his own family and friends to prestigious offices and used his power over the military to keep the empire in check.
D) he isolated himself from ordinary business and people and introduced an eastern style of rule, wearing a diadem and purple robes.
E) he invaded the territory of the Germanic tribes across the Danube in the East and the Rhine in the West to finally end the barbarians' threat to the empire.
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Jesus is the central figure in Christianity,but Paul was important:

A) first as a persecutor, then a follower, and finally a heretic.
B) for successfully arguing that Jewish religious laws need not apply to Christians.
C) because he wrote the Gospels, Epistles, and teachings of the apostles.
D) in arguing that women should be allowed to speak in church.
E) in serving as the first Christian leader in Rome; the first pope.
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Roman borders were:

A) clearly demarcated and defended.
B) protected by a system of walls and palisades.
C) sites of constant warfare.
D) completely undefended.
E) porous and thus more symbolic than actual.
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Realizing that the Roman Empire had become too large for a single ruler to control it:

A) Constantine divided the empire in half and appointed a co-emperor to rule the western part.
B) Constantine built a new capital city named Constantinople in Palestine.
C) Diocletian divided the empire in half and appointed a co-emperor to rule the western part.
D) Diocletian resigned his position as emperor and encouraged the development of regional republics.
E) Diocletian abandoned some of the most marginal provinces of the Roman Empire such as Egypt and Britannia.
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Christianity was attractive to cosmopolitan Greeks because:

A) Jesus's teachings were similar to those of Aristotle.
B) many Greek people practiced Eastern mystery religions with which early Christianity shared characteristics.
C) many Greeks were Stoics, a philosophy that shared many characteristics with early Christianity.
D) the stories of Jesus's life were similar to those of the Trojan heroes.
E) it helped the Greeks reconcile themselves to rule by the Romans.
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19
During the third century,Rome underwent a prolonged period that came very close to destroying the empire.This period is known as the time of:

A) the Pax Romana, when the Huns sacked Rome.
B) the quickening, when the bureaucratic changes came rapidly.
C) the Five Bad Emperors, when Rome had the worst emperors in its history.
D) the Augustan decay, when all the reforms of Marcus Aurelius were implemented.
E) the Barracks Emperors, when Rome had no fewer than twenty-six emperors in about fifty years.
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20
The Dead Sea Scrolls have helped historians to understand the religious climate of the first century C.E.by:

A) describing Jewish life after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
B) providing concrete evidence about the life and ministry of Jesus.
C) demonstrating the diversity of Jewish religious practice and belief.
D) proving that most of the first century converts to Christianity were Jews.
E) describing the infighting between the various Jewish sects of the first century C.E.
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21
The differences between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire:

A) in culture, economy, and language were great and grew larger over time.
B) became less significant as Constantine and his sons reunited the whole.
C) helped landowners use profits in the West to buy up small farms in the East.
D) did not matter when the capital was in the center, between Europe and Asia.
E) were only superficial and did not affect relations between the citizens of the empire.
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22
What were the general results of the doctrinal quarrels of the early centuries?

A) Many new churches and sects were started, increasing public understanding.
B) Believers had to be either with the Church or against it on every issue.
C) Regional antagonisms were reduced as people concentrated on big questions.
D) The dogmas of the Christian Church gradually became fixed.
E) The Christian Church was irrevocably split between East and West by 300 C.E.
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23
By the end of the third century,the involvement of women in the Church had:

A) grown to the point that women occupied many of the new bishoprics created in the empire.
B) changed little from the early days of the Church, with women in a few positions of power.
C) changed little from the early days of the Church, but now women could become priests.
D) remained exactly the same, with women continuing as deacons and other positions of power.
E) shrunk to the point that they were completely excluded from all positions of power.
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24
Christianity went from being a persecuted faith in the early fourth century to being the recognized faith of the empire; this last step was the result of the action by the emperor:

A) Theodosius, who prohibited pagan worship.
B) Julian, who earned the title "Apostate" for his great piety.
C) Romulus Augustus, who dismantled the temple to Romana.
D) Theodoric, who destroyed the sacred altar to Victory.
E) Alaric, who persecuted pagans as they had persecuted Christians.
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25
The traditional date for the "fall" of Rome is:

A) 526 C.E., when Emperor Theodore died.
B) 476 C.E., when Odovacer toppled Emperor Romulus Augustus.
C) 410 C.E., when Alaric sacked the city of Rome.
D) 312 C.E., when Constantine defeated Emperor Maxentius.
E) 284 C.E., when Diocletian reorganized the empire.
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26
Peace was restored after the battle of Adrianople when:

A) the Roman Army routed a Gothic Army.
B) the Roman Empire met the Goths' demand for food and land.
C) a Gothic Army defeated a Roman Army.
D) the Romans ceded control of the Danube to the Goths.
E) the Goths attacked Rome.
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27
Odovacar's removal of Romulus Augustus resulted in the Eastern Roman Empire:

A) asking Theodoric, a Goth, to lead an imperially equipped army against Odovacar.
B) doing nothing to try and depose Odovacar.
C) acknowledging Odoacer as the rightful ruler of the Western Roman Empire.
D) rescuing the pope and bringing him to Constantinople.
E) moving the capital of the Western Roman Empire to Paris.
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28
Before Constantine,Christianity:

A) had a single-faith tradition.
B) was a sect of Judaism.
C) had diffuse and unregulated faith traditions.
D) was not a missionizing faith.
E) was a sect of Zoroastrianism.
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29
The roots of Rome's leadership of the Western Church partially lie in:

A) the imperial order of Constantine at the Council of Nicaea.
B) a passage from the New Testament Gospel of Matthew.
C) the Greek practice of nominating a patriarch to administer a city.
D) the general agreement among fourth-century bishops that one leader should speak for the Church.
E) the Roman Senate's promotion of the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church.
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30
What point was in dispute between the Arians and Christian orthodoxy?

A) whether Jesus was of the same being and substance as God the Father
B) whether human beings can earn a heavenly reward through good works
C) whether communion bread and wine really change into Christ's body and blood
D) whether Jesus died to save all human beings, Christian or not
E) whether an individual needed to convert to Judaism before converting to Christianity
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31
The Christian label for non-Christians is indicative of its _________ origin.

A) Roman
B) Jewish
C) rural
D) urban
E) Byzantine
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32
After Christianity became legal under Constantine and his successors:

A) Christians began to celebrate their sexuality.
B) ascetic practices were adopted by women only because they were seen as more sinful.
C) ascetic practices were adopted by both men and women.
D) Christians were strongly encouraged to marry and have children.
E) ascetic practices were adopted by men only as they were seen as more sinful.
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33
Once the Christian Church gained ascendancy in the Roman Empire,the highest authority in deciding doctrine was:

A) the Bishop of Rome, who was the pope.
B) the emperor, as a newly styled pontifex maximus of the Christian Church.
C) the Christian leader of Christianity's holiest city, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
D) the leader of the church in Constantinople, the Patriarch of Constantinople.
E) the Christian believers.
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34
Many Greek philosophies gained large numbers of Roman adherents and shared several tenets,but the one that was instrumental in influencing Christian theology was:

A) Neoplatonism.
B) Skepticism.
C) Stoicism.
D) Epicureanism.
E) Pythagoreanism.
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35
The Eastern Roman Empire lost tax revenue as a result of Germanic migrations because:

A) the Germanic peoples killed many citizens of Rome.
B) the Germanic people assassinated tax collectors so money remained in the West.
C) powerful Germanic people set up their own kingdoms and collected their own taxes in the West.
D) the Germanic peoples forbade Roman citizens to pay taxes to the East.
E) people had no money.
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36
After their defeat of Rome,the Goths split into many different groups and moved on to settle many areas in Europe; those who moved into the area of Spain and southern France were known as the:

A) Visigoths.
B) Vandals.
C) Ostrogoths.
D) Franks.
E) Burgundians.
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37
Jerome's most lasting contribution to Western Christian culture was:

A) his translation of the Bible into Latin.
B) his support for monasticism.
C) his translations of Greek philosophical works.
D) his support for the authority of the pope.
E) the humble piety he brought to the papacy.
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38
Romans regarded the Germans as barbarians because:

A) Germans were nomads, who lacked settled agriculture.
B) Germans were foreigners, unknown to the Romans until the fourth century C.E.
C) German society was illiterate, and Germans did not live in cities.
D) Germans had no interest in trade, only in plunder.
E) Germans were warlike and cruel.
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39
The fourth-century interest in "orthodoxy" among Christian intellectuals arose from:

A) a belief that Christians could arrive at an absolute understanding of the world and everything in it.
B) an agreement among Christian bishops and leaders that there were core matters of faith that could be acknowledged.
C) a powerful Roman papacy that could finally enforce Christian orthodoxy.
D) a series of pagan emperors who persecuted Christians and attacked their theology and style of worship.
E) the need to show that Christianity could withstand the philosophical scrutiny of Greek and Roman traditions.
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40
Once Constantine had converted to Christianity:

A) he never looked back to paganism.
B) government employees and soldiers in the Roman army soon converted.
C) Rome began a series of crusades to convert all nonbelievers in the empire.
D) the main points of doctrine were settled, and a harmonious age began.
E) it gained prestige and thus adherents.
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41
In 305 C.E.Diocletian retired to Croatia to raise cabbages.
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42
The Dead Sea Scrolls emphasize the homogeneity and strict observance of Jewish religious practice around the time of Jesus.
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43
In Late Antiquity,the pope enjoyed acknowledgment and support for his primacy from the other western bishops.
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44
Benedict's monastic rule differed from Basil's rule because it:

A) required monks to live in communities, not as isolated hermits.
B) required sexual chastity of all monks except the abbot.
C) emphasized the value of work.
D) was less austere and more moderate in its demands for monastic life.
E) mandated that all monasteries be economically self-sufficient.
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45
Constantine made Christianity the sole religion of the empire in 316 C.E.
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46
Augustine is recognized as one of the greatest early fathers of Christianity and Christian thinkers of all time; he believed that what he did was to:

A) create simple rules for people to follow in order to emulate the life of Jesus.
B) establish broad guidelines within which people could find their own way to faith.
C) draw out the basic truths from the Bible so that people could understand the text.
D) defend the Church against pagan philosophers who tried to show the weaknesses of Christian thought.
E) establish a monastic order teaching that the way to salvation was to remove oneself from the world.
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47
Constantine seemed to envision a united Rome after his death as he gave the empire as a whole to his eldest son,disinheriting the younger two in order to prevent civil war.
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48
Augustine's theological ideas revolved around:

A) the proper powers of rulers in a Christian empire.
B) human sinfulness and divine omnipotence.
C) the sacramental powers of the Church.
D) the fall of Rome.
E) childlike innocence when approaching the divine.
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49
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy is a(n):

A) thoroughly non-Christian text that was banned by the early Church.
B) excellent example of the pairing of classical philosophy and the Christian worldview.
C) mystical Christian text of revelation.
D) account of Boethius's conversion to Christianity.
E) account of Boethius's trial for treason.
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50
The monastic way of life in the West was influenced greatly by establishing a set of rules written by:

A) Basil.
B) Benedict.
C) Boethius.
D) Cassiodorus.
E) Augustine.
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51
The Zealots were a group of Jews who led revolts against the Romans in Judea.
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52
On the City of God:

A) was a systematic account of Church dogma written by Ambrose, patriarch of Milan.
B) is the title of Jerome's commentary on his translation of the Bible into Latin.
C) was Augustine's autobiographical account of his experiences as bishop of Hippo.
D) was a defense of Christianity as a philosophical system by Ambrose.
E) was a new, Christian interpretation of human history by Augustine.
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53
Constantinople remained the political and economic center of the Roman Empire until 476,when it fell to the Goths.
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54
An early account of Christ's life is attributed to Mary Magdalene.
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55
Ambrose argued that the Roman emperor was:

A) above the Church.
B) an enemy of the Church.
C) outside the Church.
D) a defender of the Church.
E) within the Church.
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56
Historians now refer to the period from 284 to 610 C.E.as Late Antiquity because:

A) while the western half of the empire had fallen, the eastern Roman Empire was still flourishing.
B) it is a period with its own themes and developments, not wholly Roman and not yet medieval.
C) all Roman institutions had been abandoned or destroyed.
D) the term Dark Ages refers only to the literature of the period contrasted with classical literature.
E) while the eastern part of the empire had fallen, the Western Roman Empire was still flourishing.
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57
Women played prominent roles in the early Christian Church.
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58
One reason for including classical texts in the education of Christians by the fourth century was:

A) the failure of the Church to win new adherents once it had been legalized by the state.
B) the lack of any Christian texts that could allow converts to understand the Christian articles of faith.
C) the lack of any Christian texts on mathematics, ethics, or logic.
D) the desire of Christian intellectuals to be regarded as philosophers and to make classical learning applicable to a Christian way of life.
E) to show that classical pagan beliefs could easily be reconciled with Christian beliefs.
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59
Byzantium was of little strategic import when Constantine moved his capital there in 324 C.E.
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60
Augustine's Confessions is a(n):

A) series of explanations of his actions throughout his life.
B) book detailing his actions as a young man and asking his mother for forgiveness.
C) account of Augustine's defense at his trial for heresy.
D) series of autobiographical essays directed toward God.
E) book that set forth the doctrines of the Church.
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61
Jerome's longest lasting contribution to Western society was his Vulgate translation of the Bible.
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62
Explain the implications of the Council of Nicaea.
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63
Augustine believed all Christians would be saved by Jesus' sacrifice.
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64
Why was Christianity attractive to the Greeks and Romans?
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65
Was the division between the eastern and western empires only geographic? Explain.
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66
To what extent did Rome fall in 476 C.E.?
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67
What role did women play in the early Church? Why did this role change?
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68
Boethius was executed for his controversial work on faith and reason,The Consolation of Philosophy.
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69
The Goths revolted in 378 due to Roman interference in the Frankish Church.
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70
To what extent were the Germanic peoples of early medieval Europe Romanized?
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71
What was the place of education and faith in Late Antiquity/the early Middle Ages?
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72
In what ways did Diocletian attempt to revitalize Rome?
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73
How did monasticism change in Late Antiquity?
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74
Explain to what extent the actions and teachings of Jesus were revolutionary.
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75
Cassiodorus's Institutes was a list of essential classical and pagan literature a monk should know.
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