History 101 Chapter 8 – Flashcards
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The percentage of European land cultivated in the Early Middle Ages is estimated at
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less than 10 percent
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In the Early Middle Ages, the cultivation of new land was hard because
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all of the above
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In the early middle ages, Germanic tribes newly converted to Christianity still held pagan beliefs such as
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trees were sacred beings and could not be cut down
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The first Frankish king to be anointed in holy ceremony by an agent of the pope was
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Pepin
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Who wrote The Life of Charlemagne written between 817 and 830?
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Einhard
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Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the
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Basques
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The expansion of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne
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was most successful against the German tribes to the east.
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The missi dominici were officials that Charlemagne used to
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check on his counts
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The coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as emperor of the Romans
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symbolized the fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures.
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The Carolingian monks
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through their copying of manuscripts the works of Latin classical authors were preserved.
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Charlemagne's Carolingian Renaissance was characterized by
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new copies of classical literary works produced in Benedictine monastic scriptoria.
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The Carolingian scholar Alcuin is best noted for
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helping to lay the foundation for medieval education
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Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage
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emphasized the indissolubility of marriage
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Regarding sexuality the Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages
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could not enforce clerical celibacy
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Socially and culturally, the church's advocacy of indissoluble marriage resulted in
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the development of the nuclear family at the expense of the extended family
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In the Middle Ages, monastic hospitality to travelers was
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a sacred duty
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The staple food in the Carolingian diet was
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bread
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Which of the following was a similarity between medicine in the Early Middle Ages and medicine in earlier pagan times?
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In both periods, magical rites, charms, and amulets were used
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Carolingian society was marked by all of the following except
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a totale disinterest in bodily cleanliness
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The Treaty of Verdun in 843
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divided the Carolingian empire
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The division of Europe into three kingdoms after the death of Louis the Pious led to
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an incessant struggle between Louis the German, Charles the Bald, and their heirs over disputed territories.
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The most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occurred in
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Sicily
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The Magyars
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were originally from western Asia
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The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in
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Russia
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One of the most famous Vikings, who discovered Greenland was
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Leif Erikson
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In Western Europe, the chief political repercussion of frequent Viking raids was
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an increase in the power of local aristocrats to whom threatened populations turned for effective protection
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In feudal Europe, a vassal was a man who
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served another as a warrior
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In feudal europe, a serf was a man who
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was bound to the land as a farmer
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The lord-vassal relationship in the Germanic practice of medieval Europe
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was an honorable relationship between free men
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In feudal europe, a manor was
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an agricultural estate owned by a lord and worked by peasants
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Under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages
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the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service.
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The German monarchy was restored in 919 when the German dukes elected Henry the Fowler, Duke of
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Saxony
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In 987, the Western Frankish nobility met and elected _____ as their king, contributing to the formation of a new dynasty to rule France for centuries.
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Hugh Capet
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Among Otto I's more successful actions that clearly benefited the kingship of Germany was
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defeat of the Magyars at the battle of Lechfeld in 955 and Christianization of eastern Europe
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The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarchy by defeating the Danish army was
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Alfred the Great
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The economic structure of the Early Middle Ages
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was underdeveloped and predominantly agricultural
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Manorialism
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was an economic system based upon landed estates
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Which of the following statements were true of trade during the Middle Ages
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a and c
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By the early eleventh century, Byzantine Empire
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had achieved a new brilliance of power and influence under the Macedonians
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The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians
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were greatly influenced by assimilation into the catholic church and latin culture
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The swedish vikings (the varangians) became known or assimilated with which of the following groups:
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Russians
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The Slavic people of the Rus were best known for
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founding the state that became known as Russia
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The ruthless Russian leader responsible for tying Russian political and religious ideals to the Byzantine Empire was
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Vladimir
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A comparison of Islam and western civilization in the eighth and ninth centuries shows
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Muslim creation of a brilliant and sophisticated urban culture while western society remained a world of petty and violent agricultural villages
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The Arabic name for Spain was
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al-Andalus
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After Constantinople, ______ was Europe's largest city
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Cordoba
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The capital of the Abbasid caliphate during the high point of Islamic culture was the city of
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Baghdad
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The best-known of the Abbasid caliphs was
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Harun al-Rashid
