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The pandemic known as Justinian's plague spread rapidly through the eastern and western part of the Roman Empire because it

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traveled along well-established trade routes both within and outside the empire.

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Compared to medieval Europe in the central Middle Ages (800-1100), the Islamic world was

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?

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Prior to Muhammad beginning to teach his prophecy and his new faith the Arabs:

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had the concept of Allah as one of several gods.

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One factor in the success of cities in Arabia was the protracted wars between the Byzantine empire and Persia, which made the Arabian trade routes safer than the northern ones

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True

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The Byzantine empire was never stable because of the intrigue and violence that constantly occurred at the imperial court.

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False

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Sexual relations within upper-class Muslim society around the year 1000 differed from classical Greek and Roman patterns because

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Muslim men were permitted to have more than one wife, whereas Greek and Roman men were not.

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It is difficult to date the beginning of Byzantine history with precision because:

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the Byzantine Empire was the uninterrupted successor of the Roman Empire.

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Historians looking for a rupture in western European attitudes toward ancient Roman culture and traditions will likely find it between the lives of

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?

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Women from wealthy Byzantine families

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were educated at home by tutors, but did engage in more public intellectual discussions.

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The Shiite claim to legitimacy rests on the direct connection to Muhammad through his daughter

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Fatimah

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The division between Islam and Christianity was not an impenetrable barrier as communication and gifts between the Abbasid and Carolingian empires illustrates.

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True

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The economic base of the Abbasid caliphate lay in

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the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia.

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A long-term result of Boniface anointing Pepin on behalf of the papacy was that

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the power of kings was theoretically limited.

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In their worship of Allah, Muslims worship

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the same deity worshiped by Christians and Jews.

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Pope Gregory was not only a reformer of the Church and theologian, but was the first pope to break free of Byzantine control and establish an autonomous, Western-oriented Latin church.

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True

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After 750 C.E., the Umayyad dynasty abandoned Spain and focused its rule in Damascus.

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False

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Charlemagne was able to contain Umayyad power in Europe by:

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maintaining diplomatic and trade relations with its rival the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Between 610 and 1071, the major security threats to the Byzantine empire came from

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Persia, then the Islamic caliphate.

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The Iconoclastic Controversy of the eighth century C.E. was about

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the use or prohibition of images in church, where people might worship the objects.

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Monasteries in the early Middle Ages were

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places of political, religious, and economic import.

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In the late sixth century C.E., the economy of Arabia:

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became much more commercially sophisticated as a result of the wars between Byzantium and Persia changing trade routes.

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One result of the campaigns of Belisarius in North Africa and Italy was:

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the weakening of Constantinople against the Sassanids.

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Byzantine monasteries were deeply involved in the Iconoclastic Controversy because:

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they were major producers of icons, so they supported the use of images in the faith.

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Once they conquered a territory, Viking populations

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assimilated quickly within local populations.

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Underlying the Carolingian Renaissance was the basic conviction that:

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classical learning was the foundation on which Christian wisdom rested

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Charlemagne and Harun al-Rashid formed an alliance partially because of their shared enemy, the

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Umayyad

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In 800 Charlemagne:

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accepted the crown and title of Holy Roman Emperor

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Charlemagne reformed writing in his empire by

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creating a simplified script and introducing punctuation

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Why were so many convents (monastic houses for women) founded during the seventh century C.E.?

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Convents met a variety of social and spiritual needs for aristocratic families.

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The Vikings are generally regarded as being a destructive force in European history

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but such a view may not be correct in light of the principalities they established across northern Europe.

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Local lords and chieftains often granted monasteries special privileges:

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because monasteries often played a key role in economic development and prosperity in a region.

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In Byzantine schools, classical Greek literature was

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the basis of the curriculum, with much study of the epics of Homer

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Pope Gregory I:

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significantly advanced Benedictine monasticism as the major monastic movement in the West.

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The people who took advantage of the weakness of Italy due to Justinian's policies of reconquest were the:

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Lombards

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Charlemagne regularly chose the bishops in his empire.

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True

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As a Christian king responsible for ruling a Christian society, Charlemagne:

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took responsibility for reforming the religious life of his kingdom just as he reformed its government.

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Why did Justinian try to reconquer the western Roman Empire?

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He sought to revive and reconstruct wholly the old empire.

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The Hijrah (Hegira) refers to the Prophet Muhammad's move from

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mecca to medina

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The Shiite party arose among Muslims because

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of a dispute about the proper succession of caliphs in seventh-century Arabia.

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The Abbasid empire effectively came to an end in

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?

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The Qur'an contains

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the revelations sent by God to Muhammad.

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The Merovingian dynasty in France traced its origin back to Clovis's legendary grandfather, Merovech, who was believed to be

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a sea monster

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