History Final
Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons for Rome's declining birthrate under the Empire?
Augustus's news laws on marriage and family
The founder of Western CHristian monasticism that had great in fluence on the Middle Ages was
Benedict of Nursia
Which of the following statements is NOT true of the Roman Empire in the era of invasion?
Britain was able to hold out against the Germanic invaders
Antony and Cleopatra lost the Battle of Actium because
Cleopatra abandoned the battle with her fleet, and Antony followed her.
The most famous of the Merovingian rules of the Frankish kingdom was
Clovis
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was
Constantinople
Which of the following was NOT a mystery cult?
Epicurianism
Which of the following Jewish groups withdrew from society and attempted to live pure lives?
Essenes
Which of the following is NOT true of the carrer of Jesus?
He called for the overthrow of the Roman government
The tribe whose movement seems to have triggered the invasion of the Roman Empire was the
Huns
Before Muhammad,
Mecca was already an important trading city with connections to Egypt
Which of the following statements is correct regarding daily life in the Islamic world?
Muslim men were limited to four wives
Rome completed its domination of the Mediterranean when
Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra.
In the division of power over the empire,
Octavian took the west; Antony took the east
Theodoric was a ruler of the
Ostrogoths
After numerous wanderings, the Germanic Visigoths, who had started in eastern Europe, settled in
SPain
Muhammad believed that he was
The Prophet of God, rescuing the divine message from Christian and Jewish Distortions
In what important way did the Byzantine world and the West separate themselves from each other?
The West rejected the iconoclastic religious ideas of the Emperor Leo III, leading to long-lasting religious disputes
The Aeneid, which celebrated the heroic foundation of Rome and the values it cherished, was written by
Virgil
The German tribe invited to cross the Danube to settle, which then defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacked Rome in 410, were the
Visigoths.
Which of the following Jewish groups emphasized violent revolt against the Romans?
Zealots
The next dynasty, that of Vespasian, came to power in 69 C.E. as a result of
a bloody civil war fought by the armies to secure the power for their commanders.
The main ceremony of the early Christians was the Eucharist,
a commemoration of the last supper: a sharing of wine and bread
Which of the following is NOT among the FIve Pillars of Islam?
a long, guided study of Islamic theology before one could become a Muslim
The willingness of many Romans in the imperial period to follow the various mystery religions is evidence of
a longing for religious fulfillment that was not satisfied by the worship of traditional gods
Relics of holy people and saints were so important to early Christians that
a lucrative trade in relics arose, and each church wanted to have relics in their altars
During his principate, AUgustus did all of the following EXCEPT
abolish the Senate because of the great opposition that he found there.
St. Augustine's attitude toward sexuality was that it was
an aspect of original sin that humans were born with and must keep constant vigil against
During the Second Triumvirate,
and before their final shwodown, Octavian forced the third member, Lepidus, to retire
The end of the Roman Peace (Pax Romana) was marked by the
assassination of Marcus Aurelius's decadent son, Commodus, in 192.
Beginning with the rule of Septimius Severus in 193, the Roman Empire
became more militarized, with generals placed in positions of power
The Shi'ites
believe that the right to govern the Islamic world belongs to the descendants of 'Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet
In what way did Christian behavior reshape Roman society?
by rejecting gladiatorial games and the exposure of unwanted children
Cyril and Methodius
converted many of the Slavic tribes to Christianity
The Kievan Rus
converted to Eastern Christianity under its ruler Vladimir
The influential philosophy of Neoplatonism held that
each person contained a spark of divinity that could be cultivated by the contemplation and proper living
The monastic movement founded by the Benedict of Nursia
established a balanced daily regime of work and prayer
Which of the following was NOT a factor holding the Roman Empire together?
ferocious repression of all rebellions
In City of God, Augustine argued that even though the city of Rome had been sacked by the Visigoths, Christians should
focus on the worhtiness of their own souls because the faithful would dominate at the end of time.
Antony and Octavian attempted to create a bond of alliance between them by arranging
for Antony to marry Octavian's sister, Octavia
Pop Gregory the Great enhanced the position of the papacy by doing all of the following EXCEPT
formally ending the Arian heresy through his theological arguments
It can be said of the rule of the Roman Emperor Diocletian that
he ended the chaos of the past fifty years, but as the cost of weakening the will of many Romans to support public life or fight for the empire
Constantine shifted the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium, later called Constantinople, because
he wished to locate the capital nearer to vital military frontiers
Of the societies studied in the first five chapters, Germanic society had the most parallels with the
heroic society described in Homer's epics
Which of the following is not true about the Ostrogothic kingdom?
its rulers briefly united the entire Roman Empire
Justinian's efforts to re-conquer the western Mediterranean
led to the reconquest of North Africa and a temporary reconquest of Italy
According to the text, the two greatest scientific advances in the Islamic world were
mathematics and medicine
The increase of luxury spending by the rich during the high empire damaged the economy because
money drained from the west to the Far East, where most luxury goods were produced.
Paul of Tarsus taught that all followeres of Jesus
needed neither to be circumcised nor follow Jewish dietary laws
The society of early Germans was
often very warlike and occasionally nomadic
The government established by Augustus after 27 B.C.E. has come to be called the
principate
In order to imrpove the lives of the Romans, Augustus
promoted legislation to encourage marriage, children, and traditional morality.
The mystery religions
reflected the multiculturalism of the Roman Empire because of their diverse cultural origins
To defend the empire, Byzantine rulers did all of the following EXCEPT
rely on force rather than diplomacy to solve international relations
Which of the following political and administrative changed did Diocletian NOT make?
returning all civil power to the Senate, which would choose the consuls
The popes began to claim spiritual authority over the Christian church because
some biblical writings-mainly a passage from the Book of Matthew- could be cited in support of this diea
During his lifetime, Muhammad
spread his religious beliefs to the Bedouin tribes from his headquarters in Medina
The Council of Nicaea
stated that Christ had always existed
The trade route by which precious goods moved from China to the Mediterranean was
the Silk Road.
The dynasty of Augustus, the dynasty of Vespasian, and the era of "Five Good Emperors" all ended with
the accession of an incompetent or viciously immoral son
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was
the author of a medical text that laid the foundation for experimental science
The Islamic world created a unified culture in the areas of conquest for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
the elimination of all non-Islamic religions
The numerious misunderstandings that Romans had about early Christianity were probably caused by
the fact that Christians seemed to violate the social order by including the poor, slaves, and women as equals in their congregations
After the death of Julius Caesar,
there was a series of civil wars that ended in the one-man rule of Augustus.
Which of the following was NOT an aspect of the growing monastic movement?
to save money to be used when the mepire returned to prosperity
The Byzantine emperor Justinian
undetook a major codification of laws that has influenced law to the present
Unlike the imperial government in Rome, the imperial government in Constantinople
used eunuchs in both civil and church administration
The reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian was noted for
vigorous administartive measures and reorganization of the empire.
The Byzantine Empire
was an eastern continuation of the Roman Empire
Melania the Younger
was regarded as a model of Christian holiness because of her dedication to celibacy and the foundation of monasteries
A major political question that divided Muslims after the death of the Prophet was
whether the caliphate should be long to the descendants of the Prophet and 'Ali, his son in law and cousin.
The Roman historian Tacitus
wrote his book on Germans to urge Romans to adopt more virtuous customs