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List three reasons for the final decline of the Byzantine empire.

1. Internal power struggles 2. Loss of Constantinople 3. The Black Plague 4. Loss of trade

battle of Hastings

1066

The Treaty of Verdun was made in:

843

The major Islamic Caliphate after 750 was:

Abbasid

Charlemagne's capital city was:

Aix-la-Chapelle

The four "doctors" of the Church are Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, and:

Ambros

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

Arian

Ulfila

Arian missionary

Huns

Asiatic tribe

The Magyars were a(n):

Asiatic tribe

Scourge of God

Attila the Hun

One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as _______, who died in 735.

Bede

The Anglo-Saxon epic, _______, was probably written in the seventh or eighth century.

Beowulf

Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

The Danish king who ruled England from 1016 to 1035 was:

Canute

The Carolingian line of kings were followed by the:

Capetian line of kings

Charlemagne was crowned emperor on ________ in the year 800 by Pope Leo III.

Christmas Day

Who is credited with establishing Catholicism in western Europe?

Clovis

Select the works written by Augustine of Hippo.

Concerning the Trinity, Confessions, and The City of God

Who was the last Byzantine emperor?

Constantine XI

During the reign of Basil II, (Rome/Wessex/London/Constantinople) became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine culture reached its highest point.

Constantinople

Dante

Divine Comedy

The Frankish kings of the seventh century were called Untouchable/Divine/Do Nothing Kings.

Do Nothing

Another name for the (Western/Eastern) Empire was the Byzantine Empire.

Eastern

The Wars of the Roses was caused because of a dispute over the throne of which country?

England

The greatest scholar brought to Charlemagne's court came from:

England

Constantinople was captured for the first time in 1204, during the (Fourth Crusade/Second Crusade/Third Crusade/First Crusade).

Fourth Crusade

The Hundred Years' War was caused because of a dispute over the succession to the throne of which country?

France

Who founded the Franciscans?

Francis of Assisi

Who was the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire who codified Roman law in the Corpus Juris Civilis?

Justinian

Alaric

King of the Visigoths

726

Leo III destroyed religious statutes

The document that King John was forced to sign by his nobles was

Magna Carta

is the holy city of Islam.

Mecca

Middle Ages

Medieval Period

Tatars

Mongol and Turkish tribe

Golden Horde

Mongol territory in Russia

Benedict established his monastery at:

Monte Cassino

In 911 Charles the Simple allowed Vikings to settle in what was later called:

Normandy

Joan of Arc led the French army against the siege at:

Orléans

Three influential kingdoms

Ostrogoths, Franks, and Anglo- Saxons

Who gained political victories over both Philip of France and King John of England?

Pope Innocent III

The time of great learning during Charlemagne's reign was the time known as the Carolingian (Middle Ages/Renaissance).

Renaissance

Valens

Roman emperor killed by Visigoths

Alexander Nevski

Russian national hero

El Cid

Spanish epic

The Capetian king who led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades was:

St. Louis

After he deposed Odoacer, ______ the Ostrogoth established his capital city in Ravenna.

Theodoric

Who wrote Summa Theologica?

Thomas Aquinas

In the name of Islam, many Arabs set out on holy wars, conquering much of the Eastern Empire.

True

In 1055, Baghdad, capital of the Islamic Empire, was captured by the:

Turks

The Byzantine Empire was conquered by the (Turks/Assyrians/Egyptians/Persians) in 1453.

Turks

Gaiseric

Vandal leader

Varangians

Viking Russians

illuminated manuscripts

a manuscript decorated with gold, colors, pictures or designs

Shi'ites

a member of the Shiah sect of the Muslim religion

Sunnites

a member of the orthodox sect of the Muslim religion

count

a noble who ruled a country in Charlemagne's time

Nomad

a person or tribe that moves from place to place

scriptorium

a room in a monastary for writing or copying manuscript

Thanes

a social class of nobles, soldiers, and ministers

dynasty

a succession of rulers from the same family

Infidel

a term of contempt applied to a person who does not accept a particular religion

apprentice

a young man wanting to learn a trade

march

an area along the border of a country, especially one subject to attack

Synod

assembly called to discuss and to decide church affairs

1054

break between Roman and Eastern Churches

guild

business organization

A standard of conduct for the ideal knight is called the ______ code.

chivalry

Muhammed

claimed to be a messenger from God

800

coronation of Charlemagne

Witan

council of a German king

Odoacer

disposed the last Roman emperor

Bologna

early university

Janissary Corps

elite corps of Ottoman Turks

Clovis

established Frankish kingdom

Kublai Khan

established Mongol capital in Khambalik

Daniel

established Moscow

All of the Germanic tribes were Roman Catholic.

false

Charlemagne was the Saxon king of Wessex.

false

Muhammad was a Christian leader.

false

The Corpus Juris Civilis is a religious document.

false

The Synod of Whitby solved military differences.

false

A system of local government where a vassal would give allegiance to a lord in exchange for the use of some land is called ______.

feudalism

Ivan the Great

first "tsar"

Otto the Great

first emperor of Holy Roman Empire

page

first step to knighthood

During the reign of Basil II, the Byzantine Empire (gained/lost) the most territory held since the reign of Justinian.

gained

Euclid

geometry

Genghis Khan

great Mongol leader

"El Cid"

hero of Spanish Reconquist

duke

highest ranking noble

Koran

holy book of Islam

787

iconoclasm condemned by a church council

The Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels are two of the most famous (illuminated manuscripts/Christian religious manuscripts/history manuscripts/Islamic religious manuscripts).

illuminated manuscripts

Comitatus

in the Germanic system, the relationship between a leader and his warriors

margrave

in the Middle Ages, the military ruler of a march

Vortigern

invited Angles and Saxons to England

Theodoric

king of Ostrogoths

fief

land granted by a king or lord

Papal States

large district in central Italy ruled by Popes form 775-1870

wergild

literally, a man's price or worth

Theodosius

made peace with the Visigoths

A social and economic system where serfs were bound to a manor ruled by a lord is called ______.

manorialism

Islam

means submission to God

Charlemagne's people that were assigned to travel in pairs through the empire checking on courts and the state of the empire were called:

missi dominici

Patrick

missionary to Ireland

Khambalik

modern Beijing

Carolingian

name of the second Frankish dynasty of kings

Three methods of resolution in the Germanic system of law and justice.

oath swearing, trial by ordeal, and compensation

Compensation

payment for crime give to the victim's family by the offender

House of Lancaster

red rose

icon

religious picture or image

reeve

selected by peasants to represent them

The reign of Alfred the Great is not related to:

the death of Eric Bloodaxe

Caliph

title of Muslim religious and political leader

The City of God was written by St. Augustine.

true

fresco

watercolor paintings done on wet plaster

House of York

white rose

Boethius

wrote Consolation of Philosophy

Bede

wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People


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