World History Chapter 13 True/False

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As a result of the Fourth Crusade, the West established a permanent political presence in the Byzantine Empire.

False

Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, came for the riches of Constantinople, saw the walls and settled down for a long siege.

False

Because of the lack of sanitation, the mortality rate of the Black Death was considerably higher in rural areas than in urban areas.

False

Cannons were able to knock down thick stone city walls with repearted, non-stop firing for a day and night.

False

England won the Hundred Year's War because of the English reliance on the longbow.

False

For Western Europeans, the Renaissance was about connecting with the wisdom of antiquity, and since the existence of a medieval Roman Empire suggested that there were Europeans who had never lost touch with antiquity, western Europeans wanted to draw clear lines between the ages by calling the eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantines. The remnant Greek Orthodox of the empire had always called themselves Byzantines.

False

In the Byzantine Empire, Latin language remained the major language as the use of Greek was narrowly restricted to monasteries.

False

In the fifteenth century, Milan, Florence, and Constantinople proved especially adept at building strong, centralized states.

False

Justinian's most significant accomplishment was in permanently reuniting the old Roman Empire.

False

Mongols caught the plague from rats from caravan cities on the Silk Road and spread it to China and Kaffa, Crimea from where it spread by ship to Europe and Africa.

False

Renaissance artists were not religious.

False

The Bubonic Plague has disappeared with the invention of antibiotics.

False

The Crusades proved to be helpful economic tools for the Byzantine Empire.

False

The Fourth Crusade ended with the fall of Constantinople.

False

The Renaissance (if it even existed) happened primarily in Greece because of wealth from trade.

False

The Renaissance introduced Gothic cathedrals to Europe.

False

The Vikings left graffiti in the Hagia Sophia in Greek.

False

Upper-class women had opportunities to play important roles in the empire.

False

Varangians were Venetians who worked in Constantinople as mercenaries.

False

Emperor Justinian married the daughter of a circus trainer.

True

In 1054 the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church excommunicated each other, leading to a split in Christendom which continues to the present.

True

It was not until the Renaissance that the term "Byzantine Empire" was first used.

True

The Alexiad, written by the Princess Anna, covered the reign of her father in a 500-page history modeled after ancient Greek epics and historical writings.

True

The Black Death killed about half of all Europeans in 4 years.

True

The Byzantine Empire attained its greatest economic prosperity during the period of the Macedonian emperors.

True

The Empress Theodora was born in the lower classes but proved a worthy companion for Justinian.

True

The Mongols played a central role in spreading the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century.

True

The Ottomans rebuilt the walls of Constantinople and Jerusalem.

True

The Renaissance was largely an urban phenomenon.

True

The Theodosian walls stood unbroken until the invention of cannons so large that they had to be cast in place and then moved to the firing line with 60 oxen.

True

The art of Leonardo da Vinci is characterized by an idealization of nature.

True

The death rate caused by Mongos was so high that the returning forests over farmland caused a carbon dioxide "dip" visible in historic climate records.

True

The fall of Constantinople aided the Renaissance because Byzantine scholars fleeing the Ottomans fled to Italy, taking their Greek books with them.

True

The l'uomo universale- a person capable of achievements in many areas of life- was the ideal of the Renaissance.

True

The spread of goods and people along the Silk Road helped facilitate the spread of the plague.

True

Until the twelfth century, Constantinople was Europe's greatest commercial center.

True


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