Question 1

Identify the following term(s).
-Kievan Russia

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Question 2

Which of the following is not true about the Crusades?

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A)  They were a series of religiously inspired campaigns. 
B)  After 1071, the Seljuk Turk threat to pilgrims had subsided. 
C)  Economic forces such as the desire to increase trade and land hunger were contributing factors. 
D)  The pope promised atonement from sins for the Crusaders. 
E)  The Crusaders captured Jerusalem.

Question 3

Refer to Map (in the textbook) 11.2 and explain how the Roman Empire fragmented into many Germanic kingdoms. What role might languages have played in the authority of the Germanic kings?

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Question 4

One early Russian chronicle reports that Vladimir I rejected Judaism due to doubts about a powerful god who would let the ancient Jewish kingdom be destroyed, and he chose Orthodox Christianity over Islam because:

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A)  he felt that Islam was more appropriate to nomadic peoples. 
B)  he felt that a relationship with Islam would do nothing to promote trade. 
C)  he got special dispensation from the pope to marry two wives. 
D)  he knew that Islam forbade alcohol consumption. 
E)  he was a great art lover, and in his view Islam had no beautiful religious buildings.

Question 5

Describe the political and economic transformation of medieval Europe after the decline of Rome. How did the organization of Medieval European societies differ from that of Rome at its height? What role did invading forces have in this transformation?

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Question 6

Identify the following term(s).
-monasticism

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Question 7

The Varangians who ruled early Russia were

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A)  Turkish nomads 
B)  displaced Byzantine aristocracy. 
C)  Swedish Vikings 
D)  Germanic tribesmen. 
E)  the Kievan nobility.

Question 8

After the tenth century the Roman Catholic Church faced all of the following challenges except

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A)  disagreements over church regulations. 
B)  getting the office of pope more acknowledged internationally. 
C)  shortages of trained clergy. 
D)  continued infractions of the rules against clergy marrying. 
E)  residual pagan practices such as the worship of rivers, trees, and mountains.

Question 9

What was the critical means of transmitting Orthodox Christianity to the Slavic regions?

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Question 10

A grant of land in return for a pledge to provide military service was called a ________?

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Question 11

Which of the following technologies continued to grow after the collapse of the Roman economy?

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Question 12

Identify the following term(s).
-Thomas a Becket

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-Thomas a Becket...

Question 13

Books within the Catholic church to guide priests about appropriate penance for sin were called:

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A)  hymnals. 
B)  catechism. 
C)  triptychs 
D)  hagiographies. 
E)  penitentials.

Question 14

Describe the process by which Vladimir I chose Orthodox Christianity for Kievan Russia.

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Question 15

Justice and governance at the local level was usually provided by whom?

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A)  the king. 
B)  the reeves of a shire. 
C)  the lord of the manor. 
D)  the archbishop of the diocese. 
E)  local custom.

Question 16

The sixth-century "plague of Justinian" was

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A)  an economic crisis caused by the emperor's economic policies. 
B)  the death and destruction caused by Justinian's marauding armies. 
C)  the moral decay and social class struggle in the empire. 
D)  an outbreak of bubonic plague during Justinian's rule. 
E)  a further divide between the Western and Eastern Churches.

Question 17

Refer to Map (in the textbook) 11.1 and show how the focus of medieval Europe was characterized by a "move away from the Mediterranean" and toward the north and west. How did this shift bring Europe into conflict with Islamic civilizations?

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Question 18

Technology to improve military skills in the Middle Ages included all of the following except

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A)  metal weapons. 
B)  stirrups. 
C)  chain mail. 
D)  heavy horses. 
E)  an early form of dynamite.

Question 19

A fief was

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A)  a small, nonhereditary manor. 
B)  any estate governed by a hereditary lord. 
C)  any small and independent kingdom. 
D)  a Germanic peasant. 
E)  a grant of land exchanged for a sworn oath to provide military service.

Question 20

What was the most important form of monasticism in early medieval Europe, and why?

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Exam 11: Christian Societies Emerge in Europe

Identify the following term(s). -Kievan Russia