Exam 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

In Islam, Jihad has been defined as "holy war" but a more accurate description is "striving in the way of the Lord."

The basic rule for western monastic living was developed by

Irish monasticism from the sixth through eighth centuries tended to be highly

Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king who took control of Italy, was determined to

The heresy of Arianism

Saint Augustine wrote that in marriage, men and women should reject celibacy and that sex should be enjoyed without regard for purpose.

The holy man who created the first community of monks in Egypt and laid the foundations for the monastic movement was

Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 is known as the

Muslims regard Muhammad as a prophet of god but not as himself divine.

Guilt under Germanic customary law was determined by

The Muslim dynasty that assumed power after the assassination of Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, and moved the capital to Damascus was the

By the end of the fifth century in the West

Which of the following would not be a similarity between Christianity and Islam?

Beginning with Justinian, the center of the Byzantine presence in Italy was Rome.

At the synod of Whitby in 664, the English church accepted the Irish practices rather than the Roman.

Muhammad was born in

The Frankish palace official, Charles Martel, successfully defended the civilization of the new western European kingdoms in 732 by

The cardinal principle of the Islamic faith is that there is only God and his prophet is

Augustine's Confessions was written as

The successors to Muhammad's leadership of the Muslims were known as