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Mid-term quiz
Question | Answer |
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What was the capital of the Byzantine or New Rome Empire? | Constantinople |
Which civilizations most influenced the development of Russia? | Byzantine & Mongols |
What type of rule did the Mongols use that influenced Russians? | Absolute rule |
After the Great Schism, the Byzantine Empire was also known as: | Eastern Orthodox |
Constantinople connected which continents through trade? | Asia and Europe |
Which of the following was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire? | Justinian's Code |
Who led the Russian state to become an empire? | Ivan the Great/ Ivan III |
What does Allah mean in Arabic? | The belief on one God |
What does Islam mean? | Submission of the will to Allah |
Who was the last strong Seljuk leader? | Malik Shah |
What is the main difference between the Sunni and Shiites? | The belief of who shall rule the Muslims, Muhammad's descendents or people who follow his example. |
What is a major similarity between Judaism, Christianity and Islam? | the belief in one god |
The use of what was the reason why the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church split? | icons |
Rahmmadan is a holy month to fast from sunrise to sunset for what religion? | Islam |
Another similarity between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is: | ethical values |
What legacy did the Byzantine Empire leave behind? | Greek and Roman knowledge |
What do Muslims believe about Muhammad? | He is the last and greatest prophet |
Why did the age of chivalry decline? | The longbow and other new technology showed that learning to become a knight was useless if you could kill your opponents from a distance. |
What culture most influenced the Seljuk culture? | Persian Empire |
What did the Magna Carta guarantee? | Basic legal rights |
What were the values knights followed in the code of chivalry? | loyalty, respect, honesty, and bravery |
What is feudalism? | A system of loyalties and protections based on mutual obligations. |
What were main problems in the Holy Roman Church? | lay investiture, priests were marrying which is against the canon law and simony |
What is the holy book of Islam? | the Qu'ran |
What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is qualifies to be the leader or caliph? | Shiites |
How can Muslim centers of learning best be described? | Places that made advancements in medicine, literature, art and mathematics |
Saturday is the holy day of the week for what religion? | Judaism |
What is the house of worship for Muslims? | a mosque |
What church was built to be the world's most beautiful church? | the Hagia Sophia |
What events caused the Middle Ages to end? | Bubonic Plague, Hundred Year's War, and the Great Schism. |
The main controversy of the Hundred Year's War was: | the throne of France |
Who led the Norman conquest of England? | William the Conqueror |
What is a guild? | An association of people who worked the same occupation. |
What did the English royal courts of justice create? | English common law |
Who were the rulers of the Muslim Empire? | the Abbasaids |
What were the effects of the Germanic invasions? | decline in cities, loss of common language, decline in trade and loss of Greek and Roman knowledge |
Why was the church the most powerful institution during the early Middle Ages? | the Church was the only group of people who were educated who could read and write. |
What title did Ivan III use? | Zar |
What caused the decline of the Byzantine Empire? | Mongols and Turks invaded Constantinople, disruption of trade, Bubonic Plague |
What is a manor? | The lord's estate in feudal Europe |
The Great Schism was an argument of which man would hold the position of what? | the Pope |
True or false, the shared beliefs in the teachings of the church bounded people together? | True |
True or False, round arches, dark and gloomy are characteristics of a Gothic church? | False |
What is a Crusade? | another name for a "holy war" to take control of the Holy Land |
True or False, Urban the II called for a crusade to recover the holy land, Jerusalem? | True |
Who was Charles Martel? | the mayor and most powerful person of the Frankish kingdom |
What was the job of a page? | to begin to practice fighting skills |
What was the job of a squire? | act as a servant to a knight |
Where was the cultural center of Islamic learning? | Baghdad, Damascus |
What was the most important effect of the Hundred Years' war? what did it develop? | Nationalism |