The Middle Ages

Which of the following is most correctly seen as a direct continuation of the Roman Empire?

Byzintine Empire

The Byzintine Empire lasted from approximently

500 to 1450.

Which of the following territories was always part of the Byzintine Empire?

Balkan Peninsula

The signifagance of the Byzintine Empire included all of the following EXCEPT

the empire's conquest of the Ottoman Empire and its incusion of the middle east

What was the most important "stepchild" of the Byzintine civilization?

Russia

Which of the following represents a diffrence between the spread of civilization in eastern and weastern Europe?

They produced diffrent visions of Christianity, culturally as well as organizationlly seprate.

Which of the following does NOT represent a similarity between the spread of civilizaton in eastern and western Europe?

Northern kingdoms dominated both areas

The capital of the Byzintine Empire and its commercial center was located at

Constantinople

The emperor responsible for a surge in construction in constantinople was

Constantine

What was the diffrence in the military organization of Byzintine and weastern Roman empires?

The Byzantine Empire recruted armies from the Middle East.

What was the great church built in Constinople by Justinian?

Hagia Sophia

After the reign pf Justinian, what was the offical llanguage of the eastern empire?

Greek

The Byzintine Empire began

in the 4th centery C.E., with the building of Constatinople

What eastern emperor was responsible for the attempted restpration of a united Roman Empire after 533?

Justinian

Which of the following was NOT one of Justinian's postitve contributions to the Byzintine Empire?

The reconquest of Gual

The former courtsan who was Justine's wife and adviser was

Theodora

Who wa sthe brilliant general who helped Justinian achive military gains in north Africa and Italy?

Belisaius

All of the following were outcomes of Justinian's war of reconquest EXCEPT

the permanent addition of Rome to the Byzintine Empire

The Slavic kingdome that attacked Byzintine Territory in the Balkins after the 8th century C.E.

Bulgaria

After the 7th century, what group posed the biggest threat to the eastern frontiers of the Byzintine Empire?

The Arab Muslims

what was the technological innovation that aided the Byzantine Empire in withstanding the Muslim siege of constatinople in 717?

Greek fire

which of the following was a result of the conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslims?

The position of small farmers in the empire was weakend as a result of heavy taxation, resulting in greater aistocrate eastates.

Which of the following conclusions that might be drawn about the Byzintine Empire as the result of its conflicts with its neighbore is most true?

Despite all of its difficulties, its wars with its neighbores demonstrate that the empire had real core strength

What emperor became reowned in the 11th century as the slayer of the burgars by defeating the bulgarian kingdom and restoring Byzantine rule in the Balkins?

Basil II

In which of the following ways were the Byzintine bureacracy and the Chinese bureacracy similare?

Both bureacracies were open to talented commoners, not just aristocrats.

which of the following statements concerning urbanization within the Byzintine empire is most correct?

Constantinople controlled the economy and grew to enormous size, but other cities were relitivly small

Which of the following statements concerning Byzintine Bureacracy is NOT accurate?

Bureaucrats had limited education and ability

Which of the following statements concerning Byzintine military organization is most accurate?

The Byzantine Empire recruted troops within the empire by granting heritable land in reture for military service.

what were the primary export of the Byzintine Empire?

Luxury products, such as silk, cloth, and carpets

Which of the following statements concerning the merchant class of the Byzintine Empire is most accurate?

there was a large and wealthy mercant class in the Byzintine Empire, but it never gained significant political power because of the elaborate network of goverment controls.

Byzintine culter life centered on the secular traditions of

Hellinism

which of the following was NOT strength of Byzantine cutural life?

Innovative literary forms

The name normally given to the form of Christianity that emerged in the Byzantine Empire was

Orthodox Christianity

which of the following describes a key diffrence between art in weastern and eastern Christianity?

Art in the Roman church empisizes Christ's suffering, while Orthodox art empisizes Christ's majesty

What was NOT an art form used in Byzantine culture?

pyramid style tombs

Which of the following issues was a cause for the split between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches after 1054?

The Roman Catholic practice of requiring celibacy for its priests

In the 11th century,what group of people siezed most of the Asiatic provinces pf the Byzintine Empire?

the Seljuk Turks

What was th outcome of the weaster crusade of 1204?

the crusaders attacked and conqured Constantinople, temporarly establishing a western Kingdom there.

In what year did the Ottoman Turks successfully capture constantinople and bring the Byzintine Empire to a close?

1453

What two missionaries were reasponsible for the creation of a written script for slavic launguage?

Cyril and Methodius

the Slavic alphabet created by Orthodox missionaries is called

Criyllic

which of the following reigons eventully converted to Orthodox Christianity?

Russia

the kingdom of Kiev in southern Russia was established by traders from

Scandinavia

the first king of Kievan Russia was

Rurik

Which of the following practices was NOT adopted as a feature of the Russian Orthodox church?

Clerical celibacy

why did Vladimir I perfer Orthodox Cgristianity to Roman Catholism?

He belived that Roman Catholicism implied paple interference, while Orthodoxy embraced the control of church and state

Which of the Kievan Princes issued a formal legal code?

Yaroslav

What was the extent of weastern European influence in Kievan Russia?

Russia's religous culture and social and economic patterns developed seperatly from weastern Europe's

what group of peoples was responsible for the coquest of Kievan Russia after 1236?

Mongols(Tarters)

Which of the following statements concerning the Tarter invasion of Russia is most accurate?

Tarter supervision did not destroy Russian Christianity or a native Russian aristocracy

The post classical periode in western history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the 15th century is refered to the

Middle Ages

which of the following statements concerning the the impact of Christianity on polythiestic religons in western Europe in most accurate

the process of conversation produced a religous blend in which belifes in magic and supernatural spirits coexested with Christianity

Following the Fall of Rome, where was the center of the post-classical West?

the center plains of northern Europe

Who were the scandinavian invaders who disrupted the development of durable political institutions in the medeval West until the 10th century?

Vikings

which of the following statements concerning the intellectual activity of the medeval West prior to the 8th century is most accurate?

with the few literate people concentrated in monasteries, little was achieved other than copying older manuscripts

the system that described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers was called

manorialism

Agricultural laborers under the jurisdiction of aristocratic landowners were called

serfs

which of the following statements concerning the agricultural laborors of the medieval west is NOT true?

they could be bought an sold by landlords

The moldboard was

a technological innovation, a plow that allowed deeper turning of the soil

which of the following statements about the manorial system is NOT true?

it was technologically sophisticated

whcih of the following statements concerning the three-field rotation system is most accurate?

introduced in the 8th century, the three-field rotation left a third of the land unplanted to regain fertility

what Frankish King was responsible for the conversation of his people to Christianity in order to gain a vague domination over the Franks?

Clovis

Benedict of Nursia was responsible for what accomplishment of the 6th century?

the creation of a set of rules for moasteries

what belief did the conversation of Germanic kings create amonge Western religous leaders, particularly the pope?

that the church was superior to the seculare rulers

which of the following was NOT a benifit of the monastic movement in weastern Europe?

their political organization provided the foundation for the political order established in France, Germany, and England

What dynasty took over the frankish monarchy in the 8th century?

Carolingian

In what year was charlemagne able to establish a substantial, if temporary, empire in France and Germany?

800

Which of the following statements concerning the Holy Roman Emperors after the 10th century is most accurate?

the rule of the Holy Roman emperors became increasingly hollow, because they did not build a solid monarcy from regional foundations

Which of the following was NOT a positive development that introduced new sources of streagth by the 9th and 10th centuries to weastern Europe?

development of imperial government

where was the greatest concentration of urbanization after the 10th century in Europe?

Italy and low countries

what was the impact of the improved economy after the 10th centuryon the social system of weastern Europe?

the increased pace of economic life createda less rigid structure

Relationships between members of the military elite based on a reciprocal exchange of land for military serves an loyalty was called

Feudalism

The members of the military elite who recived land in return for military service in bands of greater lords was called

vassels

which of the following statements about feudalism is most accurate?

although it inhibited the developement of strong central states, some kings were able to use feudalism to build thier own power

which of the following was NOT a powere of papacy immidiatly after 500?

the appointment of all bishops

how did the introduction of feudal monarchy into England compare to the politicl experience of France?

English feudal monarcy was introduced abruptly following 1066, whil Freanch feudal monarcy developed more slowly

by what century did France achieve a complete feudal monarcy?

13th

which of the following regions achieved feudal monarcy prior to the end of the middle ages?

England

Which of the following areas was NOT one of the regions into which expanision from western Europe took place?

Norther Africa

In what year did pope urban II call for the first crucade?

1095

Which of the following did NIT occur as a result of the Crusades?

The Crusades demonstrated a new Western supiriority in the wider world

the reforming monastic orders founded Assisi in the 13th century were created by

St. Francis and St.Clare.

pope gregory VII decresed the practice of investiture invalid. What was also investiture>

the practise of state appointment of bisopes

The fourth crusade was manipulated by merchants in Venice, who turned it into an attack on

constantinople

in the 12th century, what Parisan scholar, the author of yes and no, utilized logic to examine ecclesiastical doctrine?

Peter Abelard

what 12th century monk stressed the importance of mystical union with God over logic and philosophy?

Bernard of Clairvaux

In what way was the educational system of the medievel West diffrent from that of China?

The universities were not tied into a single bureaucratic system

The leader figure in the synthesis of classical rational philosophy with christan theology was a teacher at th university of Paris in the 13th century,

Thomas Aquinas.

because of its base in the universities of the weastern Europe, the dominant medeval phiosophical approch was refered to as

scholasticism

During the 11th century, what new architural style featuring pointed arches and flying buttresses became dominant in weastern Europe?

Gothic

Which of the following developments was NOT a result of the improved economy of the high middle ages?

conflicts between peasents and the landlords became rare, if they did not disapear altogether

all of the following were functions of the merchant and artisan guilds EXCEPT

ensuring a free-market ecomnomy

which of the following was NIT tru of the career of Jacqus Coeur?

He died a rich and honored advisor to the king of France

which of the following was a result of the Hunred Year Wat during the 14th and 15th centuries?

kings reduce thier reliance on feudal forces in favor of paid armies

which of the following was NOT a treat to the sources of Western vitality at the end of the Middle Ages?

The economic tail-spin and impending depression

which of the followin was NOT typical of the challenges to typical medievel institions in the 15th century?

a single imperial government replaced the smaller kingdoms of the Middle ages

Which of the following statements concerning the medievel economy is most true?

Medievel economics was a combination of capitilistic and feudal practices