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HIS 101

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One difference between Islam and Christianity is that:   show
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The armies of Abu-Bakr were able to expand Islam northward out of Arabia largely because of:   show
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Many of the local populations in Byzantium and Persia:   show
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An important figure who founded several Merovingian monasteries was:   show
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show significantly advanced Benedictine monasticism as the major monastic movement in the West.  
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A pandemic broke out in 541–42 which has come to be known as:   show
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The people who took advantage of the weakness of Italy due to Justinian’s policies of reconquest were the:   show
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show the weakening of Constantinople against the Sassanids.  
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The Byzantine economy in the early Middle Ages was:   show
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show intense interest in matters of doctrine and orthodoxy.  
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show He sought to revive and reconstruct wholly the old empire.  
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Why did the Romans of Italy and North Africa resent Justinian’s efforts to "liberate" them?   show
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The stability of Byzantine government was the product of:   show
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show because of the division of the empire among all the legitimate heirs of Louis and the Frankish aristocracy’s dissatisfaction  
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show the Byzantine Empire was the uninterrupted successor of the Roman Empire.  
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show political legitimacy was fundamentally linked to the defense of religious tradition.  
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show became much more commercially sophisticated as a result of the wars between Byzantium and Persia changing trade routes.  
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show had the concept of Allah as one of several gods.  
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Byzantine monasteries were deeply involved in the Iconoclastic Controversy because:   show
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show accepted the crown and title of Holy Roman emperor.  
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show Convents met a variety of social and spiritual needs for aristocratic families.  
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Local lords and chieftains often granted monasteries special privileges:   show
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show classical learning was the foundation on which Christian wisdom rested.  
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show took responsibility for reforming the religious life of his kingdom just as he reformed its government.  
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Charlemagne was able to contain Umayyad power in Europe by:   show
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The rotation of crops:   show
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The Crusades marked a fundamental turning point in the relationship between:   show
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show Concordat of Worms.  
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show excommunicated Henry IV as king of Germany and encouraged all faithful Christians to rebel against his rule.  
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The expansion of the Byzantine Empire during the tenth and early eleventh centuries was assisted by:   show
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One notable religious zealot who promoted the Crusade was:   show
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show a force of heavily armored knights to deploy against the lightly armored Turkish cavalry.  
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The most powerful of the heirs of Charlemagne was the Saxon king Otto who:   show
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show College of Cardinals.  
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show serfs could not be sold apart from their historic lands.  
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show to slay Christ’s enemies wherever they could be found, especially Jews and Muslims  
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The tenth century was known for ineffective kingship throughout Europe and:   show
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The ______ were a major factor in the creation of new kingdoms and cultural patterns after the decline of the Carolingian Empire   show
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show claimed descent not from Roman or Carolingian families but Viking warlords like Rollo the Viking.  
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As agricultural production increased and land became more valuable:   show
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The merging of small individual land holdings into larger, common fields that could be worked by a whole village resulted in the emergence of:   show
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Central to the establishment of "feudal" monarchies was the:   show
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A major source of mechanical power in medieval Europe after 1050 was the:   show
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show a promise to be freed from all penances imposed by the Church.  
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show church fathers, such as Ambrose, had been married.  
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show was not profound.  
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Partly as a result of the Crusades, Europe:   show
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show Umar Khayyam.  
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show seized Jerusalem, slaughtering much of its population in the process.  
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The greatest economic consequence of the Crusades was:   show
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King John signed the Magna Carta   show
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show sanction Milan’s formation of an anti-German alliance, the Lombard League.  
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show Philip II, “Augustus.”  
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The ___ Crusade saw three European kings personally join in the Crusade..   show
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The religious order that became associated with the administration of the Inquisition was the   show
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During the twelfth century, the central focus of Christianity was:   show
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The first proponent of scholasticism is thought to have been   show
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show trivium and quadrivium.  
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show corporation or guild.  
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Perhaps some of the focus on the status and role of noblewomen in places such as Scandinavia, southern Europe, or Aquitaine could be seen in   show
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The first ruler to rule a united crown of Aragon was   show
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Unlike Parliament in England, the Estates General never played a significant role in the evolution of the French government, because   show
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The most representative genre of literature popular during the High Middle Ages was the:   show
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Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German poet known primarily for his   show
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show were among the results of the Fourth Lateran Council.  
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show pursued his grandfather’s policy of supporting the German princes while enforcing imperial rights throughout the empire.  
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show in some instances Byzantium could actually ally with certain Muslims.  
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show successfully disciplined kings and heretics, and defined the central dogmas of the Church.  
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show a religiously engaged laity was supporting the Church through the donation of money and lands.  
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show it helped them differentiate themselves from merchants and clerics, who were competing with them for power and influence in society.  
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show apostolic poverty and an imitation of the life of Christ  
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show argued for the use of reason and the study of the physical universe to know God.  
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show establish four major but fragile Crusader States.  
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show Knights Hospitaller.  
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