Quiz 1: The Early Middle Ages

The history of Islam began on the _______ peninsula. After the death of Muhammad, the Islamic Empire was ruled by a ________. __________ is the holy city of Islam.

Arabian, caliph, Mecca

The heresy which forced the calling of the Council of Nicaea was _________

Arian

Who established a monastery in Italy at Monte Cassino?

Benedict

Who is credited with establishing Catholicism in western Europe?

Clovis

In the Germanic system, the relationship between a leader and his warriors was known as the _____.

Comitatus

The ________ Empire became known as the Byzantine Empire.

Eastern

The three methods of determining innocence or guilt in Germanic law were:

Oath-swearing, trial by ordeal or combat, compensation

The City of God was written by St. Augustine.

True

Attila Witan Constantinople Nomad

"The Scourge of God" Counselors to the Germanic king Capital of the Eastern Empire A person or tribe that moves from place to place

All of the Germanic tribes were Roman Catholic.

False

Muhammad was a Christian leader.

False

The Corpus Juris Civilis is a religious document.

False

The Synod of Whitby solved military differences.

False

Vandals Clovis Ambrose caliph

Germanic Tribe established Frankish kingdom doctor of the church Islamic ruler

Who was the Ostrogoth ruler that deposed Odoacer?

Theodoric

_________ modeled his capital city in Ravenna after Constantinople.

Theodoric

Five Germanic Tribes:

Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Saxons, Angles

Who was the British king that asked for aid from the Angles and Saxons in the fifth century?

Vortigern

Choose three things most Germanic kingdoms had in common.

Witan, Roman influence, comitatus justice system