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

What is demonstrated by a comparison of Islam and Western Civilization in the eighth and ninth centuries?

Of what significance was the Carolingian intellectual renaissance to western European civilization?

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

What element of classical education did Alcuin adopt?

What best describes the state of the Byzantine Empire by the early eleventh century?

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

The Abbasids built a new capital city called Baghdad.

For the most part, the revival of classical studies during the Carolingian period took place in

Roman law and religion acted together to

In the Early Middle Ages, the Catholic Church condemned infanticide as immoral and a sin, and because of the powerful position of the church in medieval society, the practice of the killing of infants disappeared.

What changes did the Abbasids bring to the Islamic world?

Who was Alcuin?

By the ninth century, about what percent of the population of western Europe had become serfs?

To what extent was the Carolingian world a continuation of the past, and to what extent did it represent change and innovation?

When it came to consuming alcoholic beverages, what was true of Carolingians?

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

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

The introduction of the stirrup had a profound impact on western European warfare.

In 987, the Western Frankish nobility met and elected whom of the following as their king, contributing to the formation of a new dynasty to rule France for centuries?

During the reign of Louis the Pious, the Catholic Church formally