Exam 5: The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds

What is the best definition for the concept 'personality of the law'?

The Umayyad dynasty established a new capital in the city of ___________.

What was the expanding Islamic Empire's major cultural contribution to western knowledge?

What practice contributed to the constant petty warfare in Europe?

What were the major differences in the Byzantine world compared to the Latin West?

The Latin term ___________, borrowed from Rome, became the normative social unit for Germanic kin structures.

What improvements are seen among Germanic women? (Select all that apply.)

What was the result of Muhammad's declarations against idolatry and pagan shrines in the Ka'ba?

The holy text _____________, from the Arabic 'recite,' is believed to represent God's final revelation to humankind.

How did the Angles' and Saxons' invasions of England differ from the experience on the Continent? (Select all that apply.)

What impact might Justinian's reconquests have had on the empire at large?

How did Heraclius reform Byzantine rule?

Which term best describes life in the sixth century, as seen in Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks?

The doctrine of ________ refers to the emperor's control of the state religion as well as the political state.

______________ wrote the first Rule specifically designed for nuns.

What was arguably the most important and lasting legacy of Justinian's reign?

How might this manuscript image communicate unease about England being invaded? (Select all that apply.)

Which of the following is NOT one of the major entities that made up the western world in the seventh and eighth centuries?

Which areas did Muslims conquer immediately after the death of Muhammad?

What changes to Islam resulted from Muhammad's death?