Question 1

What best describes Charlemagne?

Accepted Answer

A) He was a patron of learning and scholarship. 
B) He did not consider himself a Christian. 
C) He was more interested in treasure than territory. 
D) He conquered all of Spain. 
E) He was born in the British Isles. 
A) He was a patron of learning and scholarship. 
B) He did not consider himself a Christian. 
C) He was more interested in treasure than territory. 
D) He conquered all of Spain. 
E) He was born in the British Isles.

Question 2

Who became the ruler of the west Frankish lands under the terms of the Treaty of Verdun?

Accepted Answer

A) Pepin 
B) Vladimar 
C) Louis the German 
D) Charles the Bald 
E) Lothair 
A) Pepin 
B) Vladimar 
C) Louis the German 
D) Charles the Bald 
E) Lothair

Question 3

Who was the best-known of the Abbasid caliphs?

Accepted Answer

A) al-Ma'mun 
B) Ibn Fadlan 
C) Abu al-Abbas 
D) al-Mas'udi 
E) Harun al-Rashid 
A) al-Ma'mun 
B) Ibn Fadlan 
C) Abu al-Abbas 
D) al-Mas'udi 
E) Harun al-Rashid

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-Treaty of Verdun

Accepted Answer

The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 8

Question 5

Please define the following key terms.
-serfs

Accepted Answer

Serfs were a class of people in medieval

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-Photian schism

Accepted Answer

The Photian Schism refers to the 9th-cen

Question 7

Please define the following key terms.
-Pepin

Accepted Answer

Pepin, also known as Pepin the Short, wa

Question 8

What did Charlemagne depend on for the resources he needed to govern his empire?

Accepted Answer

A) Trade tariffs 
B) Tribute 
C) Sales taxes 
D) Royal estates 
E) Income taxes 
A) Trade tariffs 
B) Tribute 
C) Sales taxes 
D) Royal estates 
E) Income taxes

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-Charlemagne

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne, also known as Charles the G

Question 10

Al-Khwarizmi developed the mathematical discipline of algebra.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

What helped bring about the downfall of the Umayyad Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

A) The Umayyad's own corruption 
B) A devastating plague 
C) A series of military defeats at the hands of non-Muslims 
D) Internal division over religious matters 
E) Attacks by the Franks, Magyars, and Vikings 
A) The Umayyad's own corruption 
B) A devastating plague 
C) A series of military defeats at the hands of non-Muslims 
D) Internal division over religious matters 
E) Attacks by the Franks, Magyars, and Vikings

Question 12

Who was Alcuin?

Accepted Answer

A) Charlemagne's favorite wife 
B) The leader of the Saxon opposition to Charlemagne 
C) A renegade monk 
D) A German poet and musician 
E) Charlemagne's adviser on ecclesiastical affairs 
A) Charlemagne's favorite wife 
B) The leader of the Saxon opposition to Charlemagne 
C) A renegade monk 
D) A German poet and musician 
E) Charlemagne's adviser on ecclesiastical affairs

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-Greenland

Accepted Answer

Greenland is the world's largest island,

Question 14

What was accomplished at the signing of the Treaty of Verdun in 843?

Accepted Answer

A) Peace with the Spanish caliphate 
B) Division of the Carolingian empire 
C) Reunification of the Catholic and Orthodox churches 
D) Creation of the Papal States 
E) Ceding of land to a party of Vikings 
A) Peace with the Spanish caliphate 
B) Division of the Carolingian empire 
C) Reunification of the Catholic and Orthodox churches 
D) Creation of the Papal States 
E) Ceding of land to a party of Vikings

Question 15

Please define the following key terms.
-Abbasids

Accepted Answer

The Abbasids were a dynasty of caliphs w

Question 16

What did the officials known as missi dominici do for Charlemagne?

Accepted Answer

A) Administered the palace school at Aachen 
B) Reviewed the liturgy for errors 
C) Checked up on his counts 
D) Killed prisoners of war not deemed fit for redemption 
E) Served him wine 
A) Administered the palace school at Aachen 
B) Reviewed the liturgy for errors 
C) Checked up on his counts 
D) Killed prisoners of war not deemed fit for redemption 
E) Served him wine

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-Slavonic/Cyrillic alphabet

Accepted Answer

The Slavonic/Cyrillic alphabet is a writ

Question 18

What was the manor in feudal Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) A wheeled plow used to turn heavy clay soils 
B) A light chain mail vest, worn over a hauberk 
C) A traditional way of cultivating relationships between ruler and ruled 
D) An agricultural estate owned by a lord and worked by peasants 
E) A polite way of treating a man of low birth 
A) A wheeled plow used to turn heavy clay soils 
B) A light chain mail vest, worn over a hauberk 
C) A traditional way of cultivating relationships between ruler and ruled 
D) An agricultural estate owned by a lord and worked by peasants 
E) A polite way of treating a man of low birth

Question 19

What changes did the Abbasids bring to the Islamic world?

Accepted Answer

The Abbasid Caliphate, which succeeded t

Question 20

How did the Catholic Church view marriage, sexuality, and family? How did it seek to impose its views on these matters on Frankish society?

Accepted Answer

The Catholic Church viewed marriage, sex

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

What best describes Charlemagne?

Who became the ruler of the west Frankish lands under the terms of the Treaty of Verdun?

Who was the best-known of the Abbasid caliphs?

Please define the following key terms. -Treaty of Verdun

Please define the following key terms. -serfs

Please define the following key terms. -Photian schism

Please define the following key terms. -Pepin

What did Charlemagne depend on for the resources he needed to govern his empire?

Please define the following key terms. -Charlemagne

Al-Khwarizmi developed the mathematical discipline of algebra.

What helped bring about the downfall of the Umayyad Dynasty?

Who was Alcuin?

Please define the following key terms. -Greenland

What was accomplished at the signing of the Treaty of Verdun in 843?

Please define the following key terms. -Abbasids

What did the officials known as missi dominici do for Charlemagne?

Please define the following key terms. -Slavonic/Cyrillic alphabet

What was the manor in feudal Europe?

What changes did the Abbasids bring to the Islamic world?

How did the Catholic Church view marriage, sexuality, and family? How did it seek to impose its views on these matters on Frankish society?

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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