History
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