chapter 16's cooler older brother Flashcards
In 802, what gift did Charlemagne receive from the Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid?
an elephant named Abu al-Abbas
Byzantium’s major advantage was its
strategic position on the Bosporus.
T or F: Constantinople was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire.
FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!! not impoverished
The most important political feature of the Byzantine state was
its tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor.
The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine’s reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors is known as
caesaropapism.
Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to
the system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority.
The wife of Justinian, who proved to be an invaluable adviser, was
Theodora.
Theodora’s career before marrying Justinian was as a
striptease artist.
Hagia Sophia was…
the magnificent church at Constantinople.
Justinian’s most important and long-lasting political achievement was
his codification of Roman law.
Justinian’s issuance of the Corpus iuris civilis won recognition as what?
the definitive codification of Roman law.
Constantinople withstood sieges in 674-678 and 717-718 by
Muslim forces.
One of the causes of Byzantine resurgence was the political innovation wherein a general was given military and civil control over an imperial province, or
theme.
After the collapse of western Roman authority,
Germanic tribes established regional kingdoms.
Roman imperial power ended in 476 C.E. with the invasion of
the Germanic general Odovacer.
Which Germanic tribe played the most important role in establishing the foundations of European development?
Franks
Charlemagne maintained diplomatic relations with
Harun al-Rashid and the Abbasid empire.
Even though Charlemagne spent much of his time traveling around his empire, he did establish a capital at
Aachen.
T or F: Charlemagne was mistrustful of intellectual pursuits.
FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charlemagne made use of the missi dominici, or
envoys of the lord ruler.
The main goal of the missi dominici was to
bring the counts under tighter control.
When presented with the imperial crown, Charlemagne
hesitated to call himself emperor out of respect for the Byzantine emperors.
On Christmas Day 800, Charlemagne received the imperial crown from
Pope Leo III.
A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to the Frankish king,
Charlemagne.
After the death of Louis the Pious, the Carolingian empire
was split into three parts by his sons.
Constantinople was raided at least three times in the ninth and tenth centuries by the
Vikings.
The theme system made what available for peasants?
It made land available to the peasants in return for military service.
One of the biggest reasons for increased agricultural production in Europe was the
introduction of a heavier plow.
Historians once used the term feudalism to refer to…
the political and social order of medieval Europe.
In medieval society, political power was vested in…
local authorities.
The most important relationship in feudalism was between
lord and retainer.
By the year 1000, the population of the two provinces of Christendom rose to about
thirty-six million.
Who provided the Roman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy?
Gregory I
Emperor Leo III inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy of…
iconoclasm.
St. Basil of Caesarea played a key role in what?
the rise of monasticism.
The Benedictine Rule was spread to women living in convents by
St. Scholastica.
In 1054 the pope in Rome and the patriarch in Constantinople…
mutually excommunicated each other.
Saints Methodius and Cyril devised…
the Cyrillic alphabet.
What city, influenced heavily by Constantinople, was most important in the early rise of Russia?
Kiev
The rise of Orthodox Christianity in Russia was helped by the conversion in 989 of
Prince Vladimir.
T or F: Historians refer to the era from about 500 to 1500 CE as the medieval period of European history—the “middle ages.”
TRUE
T or F: Justinian was the Byzantine emperor who attempted to reconstruct Rome’s greatness.
TRUE
T or F: Corpus iuris civilis was the definitive codification of Roman law.
TRUE
T or F: Charlemagne permanently reestablished imperial rule in the Frankish realm during his reign from 768 to 814.
FALSE
T or F: The term “Vikings” originally referred to a group that raided the British Isles from their home in Vik in southern Norway.
TRUE
T or F: Medieval western Europe was a society where cities thrived and trade linked all of the regions.
FALSE
T or F: By the time the Roman empire collapsed, Christianity was the principal source of religious, moral, and cultural authority throughout the Mediterranean basin.
TRUE
T or F: Basil II began iconoclasm.
FALSE
T or F: St. Basil of Caesarea played an important role in the rise of monasticism.
TRUE
T or F: St. Cyril helped to create a written Slavic alphabet.
TRUE
T or F: Prince Vladimir helped convert Russia to Orthodox Christianity.
TRUE
Where was Christianity inherited from?
The Roman Empire after Constantine’s Edict of Milan
What mainly contributed to the fall of the Carolingian empire/dynasty?
External pressures; Magyars from the east, Muslims from the south, Vikings from the north
True or False: While Franks invaded the northern Gaul, Visigoths invaded Italy.
False. Visigoths invaded Spain in the 470s.
True or False: Clovis’ conversion to Arian Christianity led to a centuries-long relationship with the popes in Rome.
False. He converted to Catholicism
Charlemagne fought for thirty-two years to conquer the…
Saxons
In feudalism, the retainer would owe loyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in return for…
grants of land or a benefice
