MH Final Exam

All the following about Charlemagne are true, except:

Charlemagne was not a good Christian

Knights followed a code of honor that told how a knight should behave. What was the code called?

Chivalry

What did Rome do in order to eliminate the threat of Christianity?

Christians were persecuted and sometimes put to death for their beliefs

What Frankish king was responsible for the conversion of his people to Christianity in order to gain a vague domination over the Franks?

Clovis

The capital of the Byzantine Empire and its commercial center was located at

Constantinople

In 284 AD ___________became Roman emperor. He decided that the huge Roman empire could only be ruled effectively by splitting it into two parts.

Diocletian

Who issued the Edict of Milan in 313 CE, which granted official tolerance for the religion?

Emperor Constantine

Once given official tolerance, the Christian religion became an unstoppable force in the empire. In 395 CE, who adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire, putting an end to the pagan traditions of Rome which had endured for 800 years?

Emperor Theodosius

What was the nickname given to Justinian I?

"Emperor that never sleeps"

How long was did the Hundred Years War last?

116 years

For which of the following reasons did people find themselves attracted to the teachings of Christianity?

All of the above

The Babylonian Captivity of the Middle Ages refers to the movement of the papacy from Rome to ___________________ in the 14th century.

Avignon

Medieval Monasteries were organized using the monastic rules developed by St. Benedict. These rules are know as the _________________ Rules.

Benedictine

________ architecture featured flying buttresses which held up thin walls, pointed arches, and ribbed vaults.

Gothic

After the Babylonian Captivity the early 15th century was characterized by two competing popes, one in France and one in Rome. This period is known as the _______________.

Great Schism

What was one of the most important medieval town leagues?

Hanseatic League

What was the full name of the man who eventually won the War of the Roses?

Henry Tudor

The deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments is know as ______________.

Iconoclasm

Which of the following statements concerning the Renaissance is not correct?

It is easy to define the moment at which the Middle Ages ended and the Renaissance began.

Domestically Justinian initiated the Roman legal tradition by compiling the laws of the empire into the Corpus _______________or The Body of Civil Law that remained a standard legal work in Europe well into the 19th century.

Juris Civilis

Among the famous Renaissance figures brought to the French court was...

Leonardo da Vinci

What did the Hundred Years' War prove?

Longbowmen and organized infantry could defeat knights and cavalry.

Devout Muslims, by religious teachings, are expected at least once in a lifetime to make a trip or pilgrimage to the holy city of:

Mecca

Which of the following was not an outcome of the Black Death?

Medical science vastly increased its knowledge of epidemics.

In the Middle Ages Europe's main highway of trade was the ____________.

Mediterranean Sea

The post classical period in Western history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the 15th century is referred to as the

Middle Ages

Who is credited with preserving many of the ancient Greek literary classics?

Monks in Monasteries

Jewish scripture says that God's laws were delivered to the ancient Hebrews by

Moses

Which of the following events took place on January 13, AD 532 and is considered most violent revolt in the history of Constantinople?

Nika Revolts

Which line of kings did Henry II begin?

Plantagenet

The head of the Roman Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, also known as the _________________.

Pope

______________ became one of the largest industries in Europe, and its effects were soon felt in many areas of European life. It encouraged the development of scholarly research and the desire to attain knowledge. It facilitated cooperation among scholars and helped produce standardized and definitive texts.

Printing

The three masters who initiated the Renaissance style in architecture, sculpture, and painting were

Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo.

The rituals associated with Jesus' teachings that became increasingly important during the Medieval period are collectively known as the ____________________.

Sacraments

Which of the following Muslim leaders fought against Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades?

Saladin

The political and theological faction within Islam that recognized only Ali and the descendants of the family of Muhammad as rightful rulers were called

Shi'is

This Scholastic Scholar wrote Summa Theologica.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Which of the following works by Dante Alighieri was critical of the Church of Rome -citing failures of the popes and the clergy?

The Divine Comedy

How do historians believe the plague reached Europe?

The plague spread to Europe when rats, carrying fleas with a germ arrived on the rats aboard trading ships from China.

One important concept that came from the Magna Carta is that.

The rights of individuals can not be casually taken away without due process.

Sir Thomas More, the English humanist, wrote

Utopia

Who were the Scandinavian invaders who disrupted the development of durable political institutions in the medieval West until the 10th century?

Vikings

The best description of Machiavelli's The Prince is that it is

a description of how government should be organized and implemented.

Which is a good summary of the Hundred Years' War?

a long war between England and France, consisting of mainly blockades and sieges, which eventually nobody won

Which of the following were goals of the Crusades?

all of above

Fasting during Ramadan helps Muslims

all of the above

Indulgences

allowed Christians to purchase merits from those accumulated by saints.

Which modern unit is most similar to a medieval guild

an association of manufacturers.

Islamic law required Jews and Christians

be treated with tolerance.

Relationships between members of the military elite based on a reciprocal exchange of land for military service and loyalty were called

feudalism

All of the following were economic and agricultural developments in Medieval Europe, EXCEPT:

increased sanitation laws

Which is not a cause of the Reformation?

increasing European demand for access to international markets

What did Alaric, Athaulf, and Wallia want from Roman leaders?

land, food, and regularized imperial status

The guilds engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

leading religious and military crusades.

What factor was not important to the economic boom of the medieval West?

military conquest

During the second half of the fourteenth century, the Hanseatic League

monopolized the northern grain trade and the export of Scandinavian fish throughout Europe.

Under the three-field system

one field was permitted to remain untilled each year.

The word muslim means

one who submits to God and finds peace in Him

The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance in its

pagan themes in art

The Roman state religion was ______, whereas Judaism was one of the first ______ religions.

polytheistic, monotheistic

Advances in agriculture during the Middle Ages allowed peasants to

produce food surpluses

The Medici, Sforzas and the Popes played a significant part in the Renaissance as

rulers of Italian cities and patrons of culture

The guilds of medieval towns divided workers into three ranks, which included all but which of the following designations?

serfs

Islamic means

submission to Allah

The principal innovation of Romanesque architecture was

the arched stone roof.

The split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims began with disagreements over?

the choice of caliph.

Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance?

the development of social insurance programs

An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on

the literature of Greece and Rome

It was during the Pax Romana, or ______, of the Roman Empire that a new religion would be established.

the peace

All of the following were outcomes of Justinian's wars of reconquest EXCEPT

the permanent addition of Rome to the Byzantine Empire.

Proximity to the ancient ruins and texts, political instability, and _____ acted as catalysts to the rise of Renaissance ideas in Italy.

the plague

The growth of trade in medieval Europe resulted in______________.

the rise of the middle class

All of the following are true of medieval towns EXCEPT that

they had no connection with the countryside.

In his book "Praise of Folly," Erasmus

used satire to attack the evils of society

What does writing in the vernacular mean?

writing in everyday language