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Chapter 7 WesternCiv
Study Questions
Question | Answer |
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Heraclius accomplished all of the following EXCEPT | Resisting Muslim encroachments. |
The Byzantine Empire's government can best be characterized as | Bureaucratic. |
The Eastern Church and the Roman Church differed in all of the following ways EXCEPT | Their desire to expand Christendom through missionary activity. |
The Eastern and Western Churches came into direct conflict over the conversion of the | Slavs. |
The theme system involved all of the following EXCEPT | Expanding the use of slaves and mercenary soldiers. |
The production of which commodity was made into a state monopoly by Justinian? | Silk |
Byzantine culture produced significant examples of all of the following EXCEPT | Scientific advances. |
The social transformations that weakened the Byzantine Empire included all of the following EXCEPT | The growing power of the Church over lay society. |
The Arabs were receptive to Muhammad's message because they | Were already in a state of political and religious ferment. |
Ideas similar to which of the following religions are NOT found to any significant extent in Islam? | Hinduism |
Muhammad's leadership of Medina affected the nature of his teachings by | Focusing him on problems of law and government. |
The central tenet of Islam is | Submission to the will of God. |
Islam was able to expand rapidly for all of the following reasons EXCEPT | Muhammad's inspired military leadership. |
The Arabs were able to make and hold their conquests | Through a unique combination of fanaticism and toleration in which they allowed Christians and Jews to maintain their only religion. |
Medieval Islamic culture made significant advances in all of the following areas EXCEPT | Archeology. |
The resurgence of the West via the Islamic world was signified by all of the following EXCEPT | The Seljuk capture of Baghdad. |
Charlemagne's success ultimately depended on | Victory in war. |
Charlemagne made his government effective by all of the following EXCEPT | Creating an elaborate bureaucracy. |
The Carolingian Renaissance accomplished all of the following EXCEPT | Creating an impressive array of monumental buildings. |
The Carolingian Empire began to decline when it ceased to expand because | It lost the ability to buy the aristocracy's loyalty with grants of new land. |