World History Chapter 13 True/False
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
