Western Civ Final Exam: Chapters 5-8 and 13-15
The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarch by defeating the Danish army was
Alfred the Great
In Rome the male family head could
All of the above (sell his children, put his children to death, divorce his wife, arranges the marriages of all offspring)
Cicero
All of these are correct. (believed in a "concord of the orders", was a "new man" of the equestrian order, was a great orator and capable lawyer, advocated a balanced government of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy)
In 597, Pope Gregory the Great sent which of the following to England and laid the foundation for the monastic movement was
Augustine
When Augustus died, who chose his successor?
Augustus himself
The "Apostle to the Germans" and the most famous churchman in Europe in the eighth century was
Boniface
Hadrian built a defensive wall in which Roman territory?
Britain
The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first monarchic, Frankish defender of the Catholic faith was
Clovis
The last great persecution of Christians was ordered by
Diocletian
Which of the following statements best describes the governing of Roman provinces under Augustus?
Efficient, with legates cooperating with the local elites.
One of the most famous Vikings, who discovered Greenland, was
Erik the Red
The great difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity was in
Irish church organization, giving Irish abbots more power than bishops.
Muhammad was born in
Mecca
The most important figure in early Christianity after Jesus was
Paul of Tarsus
The first Frankish king to be anointed in holy ceremony by an agent of the pope was
Pepin
The immediate cause of the First Punic War was
Rome sending an army to Sicily
The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in
Russia
The holy man who created the first community of monks in Egypt and laid the foundation for the monastic movement was
Saint Anthony
The most Muslin rids in the ninth century occurred in
Sicily
Which of the following statements was not true of Roman society in the Early Empire
Slaves were treated more harshly as their numbers increased
Romans did not readily accept any Greek philosophy except that of
Stoicism, because of its emphasis on virtue and duty
Augustine wrote which one of the following books?
The City of God
Which of the following statements about the byzantine emperor is not accurate?
The emperor mimicked Christ-like humility and allowed his subjects to approach him as equals.
Which of the following statements best applies to Roman education
The wealthy classes wanted training in Greek and mastery of rhetoric, or persuasive public speaking, for their children.
In the Middle Ages, monastic hospitality to travelers was
a sacred duty
Augustine's Confessions was written as
an account of his own miraculous personal conversion
Justinian's most important lasting contribution to Western civilization was his
codification of Roman law
The prolific "silver age" writer Seneca
composed philosophical letters on the theme of Stoicism.
The Roman Senate
could only advise the magistrates in legal matters
The Council of Nicaea in 325
defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.
In Germanic society wergald
developed as an alternative to acts of revenge for injury or death
The Treaty of Verdun in 843
divided in Carolingian empire
The Roman praetorian guards were
elite troops given the task of protecting the emperor
The early values of Christianity, as exemplified in Jesus' "sermon on the mount,"
emphasized devotion to the values of humility, charity, and true brotherly love.
Sulla's legacy and importance was that he
employed his personal army in political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war
The missi dominici were officials that Charlemagne used to
enure his counts were following his wishes
According to Cassiodorus, the trivium includes which of the following subjects?
grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic or logic.
Which of the following is not true of the Colosseum
it was destroyed by Caligula
Augustus's social legislation
made adultery a criminal offense and outlawed wasteful expenditures for feasts.
The paterfamilias in Roman society was
male head of the family.
Rome set a precedent for treating its vanquished foes after forming the Roman Confederation by
offering its most favored allies full Roman citizenship, this giving them a stake in successful Roman expansion.
The "golden age" historian Livy is well known for his
perceiving history in terms of sharp moral lessons.
Frankish marriage customs
placed strong sanctions on adulterous women
The Carolingian monks
preserved the works of Classical Latin authors through their copying of manuscripts
The Senate granted Octavian the titles of Augustus and imperator(emperor), but he preferred to be addressed as
princeps
In feudal Europe, a vassal was man who
served another as a warrior
Trade and commerce in the Early Empire
stimulated manufacturing, concentrated some industries in certain areas, was secondary in importance to agriculture
At the Battle if Cannae the Romans
suffered a devastating defeat by Hannibal
The coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as emperor of the Romans
symbolized fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures.
The Frankish palace official,Charles Martel, successfully defeated which of the following near Poitiers in 732?
the Muslims
In the year 532, Justinian almost fled the capital because of
the Nika riots
After Rome crushed the Latin states in the fourth century B.C., it was waged a 50-year struggle against
the Samnites
The result of the Third Punic War was
the complete destruction and subjugation of Carthage
The Aeneid is a poem about
the founding of Rome
All of the following occurred during the reigns of the five "good emperors" except for
the halting of imperial bureaucratic growth
Under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages
the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service
In Roman household cults, Janus was
the spirit of the doorway
Under the rule of Augustus, the Roman Empire
turned towards as absolute monarchy, with the princeps overshadowing the Senate.
The Edict of Milan
was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity
The Struggle of the Orders
was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise
Manorialism
was an economic system based upon landed estates
In feudal Europe, a serf was a man who
was bund to the land as a farmer.
The expansion of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne
was most successful against the German tribes to the east
The Petrine Doctrine
was the belief that the bishops of Rome held a preeminent position in the church
Regarding sexuality, the Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages
was unable to enforce clerical celibacy.
The economic structure of the Early Middle Ages
was underdeveloped and predominantly agricultural
By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar showed that he
was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate
Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows
were government-backed spectacles used to content the masses.
The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians
were greatly influenced by assimilation into the Catholic church and Latin culture
The Slavs
were originally a single people in central Europe.
The Twelve Tables
were the first formal codification of Roman law and customs
Pope Gregory the Great was responsible for all of the following except
writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
