Deck 7: late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

Question 1

Discuss the possible religious and non-religious reasons for the rapid spread of Islam from Arabia to Spain in the West and across the Persian Empire in the east.

Answer 1

Not answer

Question 2

What is the doctrine of Petrine supremacy and what are its implications for the history of the early Christian church? How is the doctrine of Petrine supremacy related to the problem of the relationship between church and state?

Answer 2

Not answer

Question 3

How did Diocletian and Constantine alter the Roman Empire, and with what long-term consequences?

Answer 3

Not answer

Question 4

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Theodoric

Question 5

How would you define the term "Late Antiquity" with regard to intellectual, social, and political changes experienced throughout what we now call Europe?

Question 6

What contributions did the Germanic peoples make to the new political, economic, and social conditions of early European civilization?

Question 7

In what ways were the teachings of Islam similar to Christianity? How were they different?

Question 8

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Huns

Question 9

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Theodosius

Question 10

In what ways were the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations of the east different from the civilization developing in western Europe? In what ways were they the same?

Question 11

What role did monks and nuns play in early medieval society? What does the author mean when he says that "monks became the new heroes of Christian civilization"?

Question 12

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Romulus Augustulus

Question 13

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Visigoths and Ostrogoths

Question 14

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Vandals

Question 15

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Edict of Milan

Question 16

What were the major contributions of Islam to Western Civilization? Be specific.

Question 17

Compare the intellectual life of the Roman Empire during its heyday to the intellectual life of Christian Europe, both eastern and western, up through the seventh century C.E.

Question 18

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Odoacer

Question 19

What were Justinian's major goals and how did he try to achieve them? How successful was he in actually achieving those goals?

Question 20

Were the societies of the Abbasid and Umayyad caliphates part of Western Civilization, or were they simply influential yet distinct?

Question 21

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wergeld

Question 22

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abbots and abbesses

Question 23

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compurgation and ordeal

Question 24

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St. Patrick

Question 25

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Clovis

Question 26

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Gregory I, the Great

Question 27

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Rule of Saint Benedict

Question 28

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Petrine supremacy

Question 29

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Franks

Question 30

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diocese

Question 31

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Saint Anthony

Question 32

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vicar of Christ

Question 33

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Saint Augustine's The City of God

Question 34

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monasticism

Question 35

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Charles Martel

Question 36

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Council of Nicaea

Question 37

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Saint Boniface

Question 38

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Athanasius

Question 39

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heresy

Question 40

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Arianism

Question 41

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Venerable Bede

Question 42

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Theodora

Question 43

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trivium and quadrivium

Question 44

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Hagia Sophia and Hippodrome

Question 45

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Hegira

Question 46

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Arabia

Question 47

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jihad

Question 48

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Saint Jerome and the Vulgate

Question 49

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Allah

Question 50

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Corpus Iuris Civilis

Question 51

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caliph

Question 52

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Byzantine Empire

Question 53

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Shari'a

Question 54

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Qur'an

Question 55

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icons/iconoclastic

Question 56

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Five Pillars of Islam

Question 57

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Muhammad

Question 58

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Procopius

Question 59

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Cassiodorus

Question 60

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Justinian

Question 61

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

A) destroy Roman civilization and culture forever.
B) destroy the Jews in Italy.
C) sack the Byzantine Empire and depose the pope.
D) maintain Roman customs and practices in Italy.
E) make German the official and only language.

Question 62

The best example of Hiberno-Saxon art is

A) a Viking war ship.
B) a long sword.
C) the Book of Kells.
D) the architecture at the monastery of Whitby
E) the Hagia Sophia

Question 63

In the late fourth century, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes, were pushed into the Balkans region of the Eastern Roman Empire because of pressure from the

A) Byzantines.
B) Vikings.
C) Avars.
D) Arians.
E) Huns.

Question 64

The Germans believed that the ordeal could

A) reveal the truth by showing who God favored in a dispute.
B) purify the spirit and bring one closer to God.
C) cause eternal damnation because it was heresy.
D) justify the acts of physically strong men.
E) be a preventative to crime.

Question 65

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

A) destroying the Visigoths.
B) pushing the Burgundians back across the Rhone river.
C) defeating Muslim armies in 732.
D) sacking Rome.
E) ending the Merovingian dynasty and making himself king.

Question 66

Constantine's most enduring reform came in the creation of

A) a tetrarchy.
B) the "New Rome."
C) wage and price controls.
D) the coloni.
E) the Pantheon.

Question 67

By the end of the fifth century in the West

A) the Germans greatly outnumbered the Roman population.
B) unlike the Slavs in the East, all the German tribes rejected Arian heresy.
C) the Romans still controlled the economic resources.
D) the Germans took over the economic resources.
E) Romans and Germans maintained separate cultures for the following several centuries.

Question 68

The Edict of Milan

A) made Christianity the official state religion of the Empire.
B) was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity.
C) officially divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
D) formally deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, from his throne.
E) made Milan the "New Rome", equal to old Rome.

Question 69

In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by

A) Constantine.
B) Clovis.
C) Alaric.
D) Odoacer.
E) Aetius.

Question 70

The heresy of Arianism

A) questioned the divinity of Jesus.
B) denied the existence of God the Father.
C) denied the existence of the Holy Spirit.
D) reverted to Roman polytheistic religious beliefs.
E) doubted the existence of the Holy Spirit.

Question 71

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Shi'ites and Sunnites

Question 72

After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom

A) prospered under very able rulers.
B) was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture.
C) allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths.
D) dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years.
E) converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.

Question 73

Tetrarchy was Diocletian's plan to

A) make Christianity the foundation of the Empire.
B) rebuild the economic foundations of the West.
C) establish an orderly succession to the emperorship.
D) Romanize the Germanic tribes within the Empire.
E) reinvigorate pagan rituals

Question 74

The withdrawal of Roman armies from Britain enabled

A) Celtic Britons to overrun the island.
B) Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes from Denmark and Germany, to invade and to establish new kingdoms on the isle.
C) the rise of medieval Scottish culture.
D) local Roman elites to rebuild English Latin culture.
E) someone later known as King Arthur to drive the Vikings from England.

Question 75

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Umayyads

Question 76

Before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine received a vision of

A) victory under Christ's protection.
B) a long and happy reign for himself.
C) a blessed afterlife for all valiant warriors.
D) famine and pestilence for seven years.
E) the apocalypse.

Question 77

Guilt under Germanic customary law was determined by

A) trial by jury.
B) the decisions of the major domus.
C) the wergeld.
D) compurgation and ordeal.
E) confession and penance.

Question 78

The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first monarchic, Frankish defender of the Catholic faith was

A) Thorvig.
B) Conan.
C) Hagar.
D) Clovis.
E) Charles Martel.

Question 79

The political, economic, and social policies of the restored empire under Diocletian and Constantine

A) meant the destruction of the civil and military bureaucracies.
B) renewed the support of the Roman peasants and lower classes for the Empire.
C) led to the economic rejuvenation of the Empire.
D) were based on coercion and the loss of individual freedom.
E) led to the abandonment of the Eastern Mediterranean with a renewed focus upon Italy.

Question 80

The Council of Nicaea in 325

A) first organized a system of bishoprics.
B) elected the first pope.
C) defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.
D) centered around the heresy of Donatism.
E) was condemned by Constantine.