Question 1

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
-Benedictine rule

Accepted Answer

The Benedictine Rule, also known as the

Question 2

What was the wergeld system meant to accomplish?

Accepted Answer

A) The prevention of blood feuds 
B) Increased conversion to Christianity 
C) A greater tax-base for Germanic governments 
D) Decreased immigration to the West 
E) Reduced intermarriage between tribes 
A) The prevention of blood feuds 
B) Increased conversion to Christianity 
C) A greater tax-base for Germanic governments 
D) Decreased immigration to the West 
E) Reduced intermarriage between tribes

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Diocletian and Constantine both made sig

Question 4

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
-Muhammad

Accepted Answer

Muhammad is the central figure in Islam

Question 5

The pope who supposedly caused Attila and the Huns to turn away from Rome was

Accepted Answer

A) Leo I. 
B) Gregory the Great. 
C) Peter I. 
D) Augustine III. 
E) Jerome the Great. 
A) Leo I. 
B) Gregory the Great. 
C) Peter I. 
D) Augustine III. 
E) Jerome the Great.

Question 6

What administrative change did Diocletian institute for the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

A) He made Christianity the official religion of the empire. 
B) He administered the empire without assistance from a civil or military bureaucracy. 
C) He divided power between himself and four other rulers. 
D) He divided the empire into four regions, each with its own prefect while he maintained authority. 
E) He made no changes since the administration of the empire worked well. 
A) He made Christianity the official religion of the empire. 
B) He administered the empire without assistance from a civil or military bureaucracy. 
C) He divided power between himself and four other rulers. 
D) He divided the empire into four regions, each with its own prefect while he maintained authority. 
E) He made no changes since the administration of the empire worked well.

Question 7

Pope Gregory I accepted the notion that the church should have no temporal power.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Constantine declared toleration for Christians but did NOT make Christianity the official Roman religion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What was Justinian's most important contribution to Western civilization?

Accepted Answer

A) Codification of law 
B) Re-conquest of western Europe 
C) Prevention of migration of eastern peoples to the west 
D) Expansion of Latin 
E) Promotion of the Roman Catholic Church 
A) Codification of law 
B) Re-conquest of western Europe 
C) Prevention of migration of eastern peoples to the west 
D) Expansion of Latin 
E) Promotion of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 10

Benedictine monks owed unquestioning obedience to the will of the abbot.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

The Germanic peoples made significant co

Question 12

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.

Accepted Answer

During the heyday of the Roman Empire, i

Question 13

The withdrawal of Roman armies from Britain enabled

Accepted Answer

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. 
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 14

At its height, the area under Islamic rule stretched from one end of the Mediterranean Sea to the other.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The Frankish palace official, Charles Martel, successfully defeated which of the following near Poitiers in 732?

Accepted Answer

A) the Visigoths 
B) the Burgundians 
C) the Muslims 
D) the Byzantines 
E) the Merovingians 
A) the Visigoths 
B) the Burgundians 
C) the Muslims 
D) the Byzantines 
E) the Merovingians

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Justinian's major goals were to restore

Question 17

Both the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths favored coexistence between Roman and German populations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
-jihad

Accepted Answer

The answer of For each historical identification question, define the...

Question 20

Jerome is known for all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) his mastery of Latin prose. 
B) his skills as a linguist. 
C) his translations of the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. 
D) his final return to pagan heresy and rejection of key Christian doctrines. 
E) becoming one of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 
A) his mastery of Latin prose. 
B) his skills as a linguist. 
C) his translations of the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. 
D) his final return to pagan heresy and rejection of key Christian doctrines. 
E) becoming one of the Latin Fathers of the Church.

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

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. -Benedictine rule

What was the wergeld system meant to accomplish?

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

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. -Muhammad

The pope who supposedly caused Attila and the Huns to turn away from Rome was

What administrative change did Diocletian institute for the Roman Empire?

Pope Gregory I accepted the notion that the church should have no temporal power.

Constantine declared toleration for Christians but did NOT make Christianity the official Roman religion.

What was Justinian's most important contribution to Western civilization?

Benedictine monks owed unquestioning obedience to the will of the abbot.

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

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.

The withdrawal of Roman armies from Britain enabled

At its height, the area under Islamic rule stretched from one end of the Mediterranean Sea to the other.

The Frankish palace official, Charles Martel, successfully defeated which of the following near Poitiers in 732?

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

Both the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths favored coexistence between Roman and German populations.

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

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. -jihad

Jerome is known for all of the following EXCEPT

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

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

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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