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Honors 8 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the Byzantine Emperor who reformed Roman Lax? | Justinian |
| What effects did the Mongols have on early Russia? | Exposed them to absolute power and cut off Russia off from the West. |
| Which people invaded the Roman Empire and brought it collapse? | The Germanic people/Tribes |
| Who was the founder of Islam? | Muhammad |
| What are the differences from Roman Catholicism to Orthodox Catholicism? | Use of icons and views on marriage. |
| What was the most powerful institution during Medieval Europe? | The Roman Catholic Church |
| What major invention came around during the Hundred Year's War? | The invention of the longbow. |
| Who fought in the Hundred Year's War | England and France |
| What was the Hundred Year's War purpose? | To see who would claim the throne of France |
| What where the reasons of the Byzantine Empire's decline? | Constant wars and bubonic plague. |
| What where the reasons for the Middle Ages decline? | Bubonic Plague Crusades Hundred Year's War The Great Schism Development of Nationalism in England and France |
| Where was Russia's first major civilization and what was it called? | Kiev and it it located in present day Ukraine |
| Who had the bigest impact of bringing the Byzantine culture to Russia? | Prince Vladimir of Kiev. |
| What did Vladimir and his son Yaroslav spred throught military victories? | Christianity |
| What where Yaroslav's major achievements? | Gave legal status to Church, made Orthodox Christianity offical religion, translated religious books into Slavic languages. |
| Who lead the Mongol Armies into Russia between 1236 and 1241? | Batu , the grandson of Ghengis Kahn. |
| Who where the two groups of people that influenced the development of early Russia? | The Slavs and the Rus (Vikings) |
| What type of state did Russia become when the Mongols invaded? | A tributary state. |
| Who tried to limit the power of nobles and started calling himself tsar? | Ivan III (a.k.a. Ivan the Great) |
| Who recovered lost Russian land the was taken by Lithuania? | Ivan the Great |
| Who was crowned tsar in 1547? | Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Great's grandson. |
| What tradition did Ivan the Terrible expose Russia to? | Extreme Absoulte Power |
| Who are the two major groups inside Islam? | The Sunni and the Shiites. |
| Who where the Muslim mystics. | The Sufis. |
| Who was the founder of all three major monotheistic religions. | Abraham |
| In which religion is Jesus Christ the messiah. | Christianity |
| What is the holy book of Islam | The Qur'an |
| What is the holy month in Islam? | Ramadan |
| What kind of empire was the Byzantine Empire? | A trade/economic empire |
| Who brought the Bubonic Plague to Europe and how? | The Mongols through trade. |
| What problems did the Church face in 1000's? | Simony, Marrying of Priests Lay Investiture |
| Who was the Pope who called for the first Crusade | Pope Urban II |
| Who where the two leaders that lead the fought in the 3rd Crusade? | King Richard the Lion-Hearted Saladin |
| What was the reason for the 3rd Crusade? | The recapture of the Holy Land by the Muslim Empire. |
| What was the Reconquista. | A Crusade that took place in Spain to rid Spain of Muslim infadels. |
| Under which king did the signing of the Magna Carta take place? | King John |
| What rights did the Magna Carta give to which group of people. | Basic political rights that applied to nobles. |
| Who was weakened by England's Parliment and who was strengthened by it? | Nobles' power were weakened King's power was increased. |
| In the French Estates General, whose power was weakened and who's was increased. | Noble's power increased King's power decreased. |
| Why did second born sons of kings go to fight in the Crusades? | Because they where not in line to gain the throne and they went off to find fortune. |
| What where the political reasons for the Crusade? | Kings where able to get rid of knights who where threatening peace and stability in the kingdom. |
| If you died during the Crusade what happened to your soul? | You would go straight to heaven. |
| Why was there a revival of learning in the 1100's? | Trading with the Byzantine and Muslim Empires and things started to become written in the language people spoke. |
| What was Medieval Philosophy based on? | Greek/Roman Knowledge and Teachings of the Church |
| Who was Thomas Aquinas? | A major philosopher during the Middle Ages |
| Where were the Turks originally from? | Asia |
| What city did the Seljuk Turks capture in 1055? | Baghdad |
| What group of people did the Seljuk Turks rely on for political matters? | The Persian |
| Whose culture did the Turks adopt. | The Persian's culture. |
| Who did they give important government positions to? | The Persians |
| Who conquered Baghdad in 1258? | The Mongols |
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