Deck 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

Question 1

"The Renaissance was a direct consequence of the High Middle Ages." Discuss,pro and con.

Answer 1

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Question 2

The Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E.,but the Eastern Roman Empire survived for many centuries.Why?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What were the factors,internal and external,which affected the Church,and resulted in a decline of prestige and a loss of power by the beginning of the fifteenth century?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How would European life in the fourteenth century have been different if the Black Plague had not come to Europe? Which individuals and groups might have been better off if it hadn't occurred,and which groups might have been worse off? Why?

Question 5

What were the causes,nature,and results of the Italian Renaissance? Was it synonymous with humanism? Why or why not? How humane was the humanism of the time? Why?

Question 6

What were some of the issues that divided Orthodox Christianity from Roman Catholic Christianity? What were the long-term political implications of these differences?

Question 7

Identify the following terms.
Corpus Iuris Civilis

Question 8

"The Black Death and the Hundred Years' War were more representative of the modern world than the medieval era." Discuss critically.

Question 9

What were the causes,effects,and most significant events of the Hundred Years' War? Did the Hundred Years' War differ in any manner from earlier medieval warfare? If so,how and why?

Question 10

Discuss the benefits of the Renaissance for women.In what ways do historians maintain that women had a greater degree of freedom in Renaissance Italy? In what ways was that freedom restrained? What role did Laura Cereta play? How was she prepared to take on this role?

Question 11

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Justinian

Question 12

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Hippodrome

Question 13

Was the Renaissance an evolutionary or a revolutionary event,or both? Discuss,using specific examples.

Question 14

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Theodora

Question 15

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theme

Question 16

Discuss the impact of the Crusades upon the Byzantine Empire.If the Crusader States had been placed under the authority of the Byzantine emperor,how might subsequent history have been different?

Question 17

Discuss both Justinian's failures and his successes.What was the long-term impact of the Corpus Iuris Civilis? What was the role of the Empress Theodora in his reign? How was her influence particularly important in the Nika Rebellion?

Question 18

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Hagia Sophia

Question 19

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Ostrogoths and Lombards

Question 20

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Nika Revolt

Question 21

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Procopius

Question 22

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Ottoman Turks and 1453

Question 23

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longbows

Question 24

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Photian schism

Question 25

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peasant revolts

Question 26

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iconoclasm

Question 27

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Hundred Years' War

Question 28

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Macedonian dynasty

Question 29

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flagellants and anti-Jewish pogroms

Question 30

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Michael Paleologus

Question 31

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"Byzantine"

Question 32

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smallpox and the Americas

Question 33

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the Black Death and Yersinia pestis

Question 34

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Latin Empire of Constantinople

Question 35

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Mehmet II the Conqueror

Question 36

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Manzikert,1071

Question 37

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Bulgars

Question 38

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Greek fire

Question 39

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Crecy and Agincourt

Question 40

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"little ice age"

Question 41

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Masaccio

Question 42

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humanism

Question 43

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l'uomo universale

Question 44

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Council of Constance,1417

Question 45

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Aragon and Castile

Question 46

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Petrarch

Question 47

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gunpowder

Question 48

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Raphael

Question 49

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Philip IV

Question 50

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Michelangelo

Question 51

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Joan of Arc

Question 52

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 53

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War of the Roses

Question 54

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Cosimo de' Medici

Question 55

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the Habsburgs

Question 56

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Pope Boniface VIII

Question 57

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Renaissance

Question 58

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Henry VII/Tudors

Question 59

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the Great Schism

Question 60

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Avignon

Question 61

Justinian's most lasting accomplishment was

A) his victory over the Ostrogoths.
B) his defeat of the Muslim armies outside Constantinople.
C) the Corpus Iuris Civilis.
D) his victory over the Nika rioters.
E) the construction of Notre Dame.

Question 62

The most serious threat to Justinian's rule came from the

A) Greens and the Blues.
B) crusaders.
C) Muslims.
D) Bulgars.
E) Ostrogoths.

Question 63

In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade,the major state of the former Byzantine Empire was the

A) Latin Empire of Constantinople.
B) Venetian Kingdom of Constantinople.
C) Greek Empire of Constantinople.
D) Ottoman Turk Empire of Istanbul.
E) Latin Kingdom of Anatolia.

Question 64

The best known Byzantine historian was

A) Einhard.
B) Tacitus.
C) Suetonious.
D) Belisarius.
E) Procopius.

Question 65

In the eleventh century,the Byzantine emperor,Basil II,blinded fourteen thousand soldiers of the

A) Muslims.
B) Vikings.
C) Russians.
D) Bulgars.
E) Franks.

Question 66

The major threat to the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century came from the

A) Arabs.
B) Seljuk Turks.
C) Ottoman Turks.
D) Austrians.
E) Persians.

Question 67

In the seventh century,the greatest danger to the Byzantine Empire came from the

A) Slavs.
B) Muslims.
C) Persians.
D) Bulgars.
E) Ostrogoths.

Question 68

The Photian schism

A) abolished the use of icons.
B) resulted in the excommunication of the Pope by the Patriarch.
C) led to the reunion of the Roman and Orthodox churches.
D) established the interdict in the Roman church.
E) divided Arabs from Persians, a split that continues to the present.

Question 69

Justinian's greatest construction achievement was

A) the Hippodrome.
B) building the walls that surrounded and defended Constantinople.
C) the royal palace at the Golden Horn.
D) the Hagia Sophia.
E) the Grand Mosque of Istanbul.

Question 70

The Byzantine theme

A) combined military and civil authority in one person.
B) was a military strategy relying upon Greek fire.
C) was the time, or the theme, during which the Eastern Roman Empire became known as the Byzantine Empire.
D) was a self-sufficient organization of peasants in Anatolia.
E) was the master plan for the rebuilding Constantinople under Justinian.

Question 71

A major advantage that the Ottomans had against Constantinople in 1453 was

A) cavalry.
B) the longbow.
C) the crossbow.
D) Greek fire.
E) cannons.

Question 72

The early fourteenth century was troubled by

A) the "little ice age."
B) a medieval greenhouse effect.
C) a rapid population increase.
D) the capture of Rome by Muslim armies.
E) the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Seljuk Turks.

Question 73

Iconoclasm

A) created a division in the Roman Church but not the Orthodox Church.
B) required the worship of icons by Orthodox Christians.
C) outlawed the use of icons in the Byzantine Empire.
D) was imposed upon the East by Charlemagne.
E) was a political movement to restore the primacy of Latin in the Byzantine Empire.

Question 74

The Italian city that benefited from the Fourth Crusade was

A) Rome.
B) Venice.
C) Florence.
D) Naples.
E) Genoa.

Question 75

The Orthodox Church had its greatest missionary success with the

A) Poles.
B) Czechs.
C) Russians.
D) Arabs.
E) Mongols.

Question 76

At the Battle of Manzikert in 1071,the

A) Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantines.
B) Byzantines defeated the Normans.
C) Byzantines defeated the Seljuk Turks.
D) crusaders conquered Constantinople.
E) Ottoman Turks defeated the Byzantines.

Question 77

The Mongols

A) facilitated the spread of the plague with the creation of its Silk Road empire.
B) stopped the spread of the plague to China, but allowed it to decimate the West.
C) stopped the spread of the plague to the West, but allowed it to decimate China.
D) were immune from the Yersinia pestis.
E) captured Constantinople.

Question 78

The dynasty that successfully restored Byzantine power in the ninth century was the

A) Anatolian.
B) Photian.
C) Bulgarian.
D) Justinian.
E) Macedonian.

Question 79

In 1453,the Byzantine Empire fell to the

A) Arabs.
B) Seljuk Turks.
C) Ottoman Turks.
D) Bulgars and Ukranians.
E) the crusaders.

Question 80

Identify the following terms.
Ivan III