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

Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the

In the early Middle Ages,

An independent Umayyad dynasty survived in Spain until 1453.

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

Charlemagne's Carolingian Renaissance was characterized by

In the Early Middle Ages, books were written on sheepskin, as papyrus was too expensive to be imported from Egypt, then under Muslim control.

The capital of the Abbasid caliphate during the high point of Islamic culture was the city of

The staple food in the Carolingian diet was

The premier scholar in Charlemagne's court was Alcuin of York.

In feudal Europe, a vassal was a man who

The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarchy by defeating the Danish army was

After the death of Louis the Pious

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?

The ruthless Russian leader responsible for tying Russian political and religious ideals to the Byzantine Empire was

Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage

The Magyars were the most prominent Slavic group.​

In Western Europe, the chief political repercussion of frequent Viking raids was

The economic structure of the Early Middle Ages

How did Viking raids and settlements impact the development of medieval Europe?

The most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occurred in