Ch. 7 Rome’s Three Heirs 500-950 – Flashcards
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As a Christian king responsible for ruling a Christian society, Charlemagne
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took responsibility for sustaining the religious life of his kingdom just as he reformed its government
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Byzantine monasteries were deeply involved the the iconoclast Controversy because
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they were major producers of icons
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In 800, Charlemagne
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accepted the crown and title of Holy Roman emperor
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In the early Middle Ages, the most significant cause of economic instability in Western Europe was
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that urban infrastructure, markets, and plantations could not be maintained
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It is difficult to date the beginning of the Byzantine history with precision because
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the Byzantine Empire was the uninterrupted successor of the Roman Empire
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Many of the local populations in Byzantium and Persia
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peacefully accepted Muslim rule as more relaxed and tolerant than either Persia or Byzantium
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One result of the campaigns of Belisarius in N. Africa and Italy was
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the weakening of Canstantinole against the Sassanids
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The Byzantine economy in the early Middle Ages was
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highly regulated, including the wage and price controls
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The armies of Abu-Bakr were able to expand Islam northward out of Arabia in part because of
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the weakness of Byzantine and Persian armies because of their wars against each other
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The global pandemic that broke out in 541-42 has recently been identified by researchers as being
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related to the bacterium that caused the Black Death
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The stability of the Byzantine government was the product of
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an efficient bureaucracy
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Underlying the Carolingian Renaissance was the basic conviction that
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education was necessary for Christian salvation
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While Pope Gregory's papacy advanced the power and doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church greatly, a negative consequence of his papacy was
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his articulation of a formalpolicy of persecution against Jewish people
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Why did the Romans of Italy resent Justinian's efforts to "liberate" them?
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Italian infrastructure was damaged during the incursion and never repaired
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Why were so many convents founded during the seventh century CE?
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Convents met a variety of social and spiritual needs for aristocratic families.
