Western Civ. Chapter 8 – Flashcards
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The Slavs
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were originally a single people in central Europe
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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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The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in
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Russia
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By the early eleventh century, the Byzantine Empire
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had achieved a new brilliance of power and influence under the Macedonians
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The Treaty of Verdun in 843
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divided the Carolingian empire
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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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The Abbasids
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broke down the distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims
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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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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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One of the most famous Vikings, who discovered Greenland, was
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Erik the Red
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Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the
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Basques.
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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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Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage
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was to limit sexual license and concubinage
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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 %.
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Carolingian society was marked by all of the following except
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a total disinterest in bodily cleanliness
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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 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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In 987, the Western Frankish nobility met and elected which of the following 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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Regarding sexuality, the Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages
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was unable to enforce clerical celibacy.
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The most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occurred in
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Sicily.
