Chapter 9 : Byzantine and Orthodox in East Europe
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Terms | Definitions |
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 The post-classical period in Western history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fifteenth century is referred to as the | The middle Ages |
| Which of the following statements concerning the impact of Christianity on polytheistic religions in western Europe is most accurate? | The process of conversion produced a religious amalgam in which beliefs in magic and supernatural spirits coexisted with Christianity. |
| Which of the following was NOT a sign of vitality in the medieval western culture following the Roman Empire's fall? | the development of a purely secular society |
| Who were the invaders who disrupted the development of political institutions in the medieval West until the tenth century? | Vikings |
| What was the outcome of the Western crusade of 1204? | The crusaders attacked and conquered Constantinople, temporarily establishing a Western kingdom there. |
| Which of the following statements concerning the intellectual activity of the medieval West prior to the eighth century is most accurate? | With the few literate people concentrated in monasteries, little was achieved other than copying older manuscripts. |
| The system that described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers was called | manorialism |
| Agricultural laborers under the jurisdiction of aristocratic landowners were called | Serfs |
| Which of the following statements concerning the agricultural laborers of the medieval West is NOT true? | They were slaves. |
| Relationships between members of the military elite based on a reciprocal exchange of land for military service and loyalty were called | Feudalism |
| The members of the military elite who received land in return for military service in the bands of the greater lords were called | vassals |
| What Frankish king was responsible for the conversion of his people to Christianity in order to gain a vague domination over the Franks? | Clovis |
| What belief did the conversion of Germanic kings create among western religious leaders, particularly the pope? | Church had a legit authority seperate from and superior to the secular rulers |
| How did the Hundred Years War result? | Kings reduced reliance on feudal forces in favor of paid armies |
| What was NOT a threat to sources of western vitality at the end of the middle ages? | Economic tail spin |
| Which of the following is most correctly seen as a direct descendant of the Roman Empire? | Byzantine Empire, russia |
| The Byzantine Empire lasted from | 500 to 1450. |
| Starting with the reign of Justinian, what was the official language of the eastern empire? | Greek |
| name normally given to the form of Christianity that emerged in the Byzantine Empire was | Orthodox Christianity |
| Outcomes of Justinians wars for reconquest? | successes in North Africa and Italy, of the empire's defenses on its eastern frontiers, establishment of a key artistic center at Ravenna, increased tax pressures on the government. |
| result of the conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslims? | The position of small farmers in the Empire was weakened as a result of heavy taxation, resulting in greater aristocratic estates. |
| Byzantine cultural life centered on the secular traditions of | Norse Legends |
| How were the Byzantine bureaucracy and the Chinese bureaucracy similar? | Both bureaucracies were open to talented commoners, not just aristocrats. |
| What is true about the Byzantine beaucracy? | Bureaucrats were trained to be literate, but lacked the formal training in Greek classics and philosophy. |
| What was the result of the conflict over the use of religious images in the Orthodox Church? | After a long and complex battle, icon use was gradually restored, while the tradition of state control over church affairs was also reasserted. |
| he Slavic alphabet created by Orthodox missionaries to the Slavs is called | Cyrillic |
| Which of the following countries was converted to Orthodox Christianity? | Russia |
| Byzantine military....? | recruited troops within the empire by granting heritable land in return for military service |
| Primary export of Byzantine? | luxury products |
| Not a practice of the Roman Orthodox church? | clerical celibacy |
| Not one of Justinians contributions to Byzantine Empire? | reconquest of Gaul |
| Military organization of Byzantine and western Roman Empire? | Byzantine recruited men from the Roman Empires |
| Why did Vladimir I prefer Orthodox Christianity to Roman Cathlicism? | He thought Roman Catholicism implied papal interferance while Orthodoxy embraced control of church by state |
| Not a similitary between spread of civilization in east and west europe? | northern political units rapidly dominated political sophistication of civilization areas in Asia and North Africa |
| Kingdom of Kiev in south Russia was established by who? | Scandinavia |
| Who conquered Kievan Russia in 1236? | Mongols |
| Byzantine urbanization? | constantinople controlled economy and grew to enormous size but other cities were small |
| Wat was a cause for the split between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox churches after 1054 | Roman practice of requiring celibacy for preists |
| What happened with the Tatar invasion? | tatar supervision did not destroy Russian Chritianity or a native russian aristocracy |
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