Question 1

Which statement best describes serfs?

Accepted Answer

A) They farmed their own land and struggled to get by. 
B) They were nomadic, wandering the roads and begging for bread. 
C) They comprise less than half of the population by the ninth century. 
D) They could be called to serve as knights. 
E) They were bound to the land and required to provide labor and pay rent to a lord. 
A) They farmed their own land and struggled to get by. 
B) They were nomadic, wandering the roads and begging for bread. 
C) They comprise less than half of the population by the ninth century. 
D) They could be called to serve as knights. 
E) They were bound to the land and required to provide labor and pay rent to a lord.

Question 2

Viking "dragon ships" carried how many men?

Accepted Answer

A) 100 
B) 50 
C) 200 
D) 10 
E) 350 
A) 100 
B) 50 
C) 200 
D) 10 
E) 350

Question 3

Serfs were free persons who willingly worked the land of lords.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-monogamy

Accepted Answer

Monogamy is the practice of being in a c

Question 5

Who were the Slavs?

Accepted Answer

A) Originally a single people in central Europe 
B) A people who adopted Roman Catholicism as their sole religion 
C) A people completely absorbed by the Bulgars in the ninth century 
D) A people who became bitter enemies of western European rulers for their rigid opposition to Christianity 
E) A people all eventually became Russians 
A) Originally a single people in central Europe 
B) A people who adopted Roman Catholicism as their sole religion 
C) A people completely absorbed by the Bulgars in the ninth century 
D) A people who became bitter enemies of western European rulers for their rigid opposition to Christianity 
E) A people all eventually became Russians

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-Alcuin of York

Accepted Answer

Alcuin of York was an English scholar, t

Question 7

Who wrote Charlemagne's biography?

Accepted Answer

A) Notker the Stammerer 
B) Charles Martel 
C) Einhard 
D) Charlemagne 
E) Seutonius the Pius 
A) Notker the Stammerer 
B) Charles Martel 
C) Einhard 
D) Charlemagne 
E) Seutonius the Pius

Question 8

Roman law and religion acted together to

Accepted Answer

A) make homosexuality a capital crime. 
B) deny that there was any distinction between homosexual and heterosexual eroticism. 
C) discourage homosexual relations between married men. 
D) convey homosexuality as superior to heterosexuality. 
E) define the circumstances in which homosexuality was allowed. 
A) make homosexuality a capital crime. 
B) deny that there was any distinction between homosexual and heterosexual eroticism. 
C) discourage homosexual relations between married men. 
D) convey homosexuality as superior to heterosexuality. 
E) define the circumstances in which homosexuality was allowed.

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-Vladimir

Accepted Answer

Vladimir is a common Slavic name that ha

Question 10

Please define the following key terms.
-the stirrup

Accepted Answer

The stirrup is a vital piece of equipmen

Question 11

Please define the following key terms.
-algebra and the astrolabe

Accepted Answer

Algebra:
Definition:
Algebra is a branch

Question 12

Slavic women had much more individual freedom that western European women.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-Patriarch Photius

Accepted Answer

Patriarch Photius was a significant figu

Question 14

The Abbasids built a new capital city called Baghdad.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?

Accepted Answer

A) The most important Islamic university 
B) The palace of the Abbasid caliph 
C) A school for Muslim preachers 
D) A religious sanctuary used by imams 
E) A library that contained works of Plato and Aristotle 
A) The most important Islamic university 
B) The palace of the Abbasid caliph 
C) A school for Muslim preachers 
D) A religious sanctuary used by imams 
E) A library that contained works of Plato and Aristotle

Question 16

What conditions gave rise to manorialism? Why did European peasants agree to give up much of their individual freedom?

Accepted Answer

Manorialism arose in Europe during the e

Question 17

What role did the Christian church play in the revival of learning during the Carolingian period? What role did Charlemagne play?

Accepted Answer

During the Carolingian period, the Chris

Question 18

Vassalage was derived from

Accepted Answer

A) Christian practices. 
B) Roman practices. 
C) Germanic practices. 
D) Byzantine practices. 
E) Greek practices. 
A) Christian practices. 
B) Roman practices. 
C) Germanic practices. 
D) Byzantine practices. 
E) Greek practices.

Question 19

Where did the most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occur?

Accepted Answer

A) Northern Italy 
B) The western Frankish territories 
C) Sicily 
D) Central Europe 
E) The Isle de France 
A) Northern Italy 
B) The western Frankish territories 
C) Sicily 
D) Central Europe 
E) The Isle de France

Question 20

What most closely describes the practice of feudalism in the Early Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

A) The major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service. 
B) A vassal was not required to provide legal assistance at his lord's court. 
C) A lord has no formal responsibilities toward his vassals. 
D) There was no outlet for the breaking of the bond between lord and vassal. 
E) Serfdom came to an end. 
A) The major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service. 
B) A vassal was not required to provide legal assistance at his lord's court. 
C) A lord has no formal responsibilities toward his vassals. 
D) There was no outlet for the breaking of the bond between lord and vassal. 
E) Serfdom came to an end.

Exam 8: European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

Which statement best describes serfs?

Viking "dragon ships" carried how many men?

Serfs were free persons who willingly worked the land of lords.

Please define the following key terms. -monogamy

Who were the Slavs?

Please define the following key terms. -Alcuin of York

Who wrote Charlemagne's biography?

Roman law and religion acted together to

Please define the following key terms. -Vladimir

Please define the following key terms. -the stirrup

Please define the following key terms. -algebra and the astrolabe

Slavic women had much more individual freedom that western European women.

Please define the following key terms. -Patriarch Photius

The Abbasids built a new capital city called Baghdad.

What was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?

What conditions gave rise to manorialism? Why did European peasants agree to give up much of their individual freedom?

What role did the Christian church play in the revival of learning during the Carolingian period? What role did Charlemagne play?

Vassalage was derived from

Where did the most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occur?

What most closely describes the practice of feudalism in the Early Middle Ages?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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