MEWEEE TEST

Question 1

Byzantine achievements in art and architecture include

Answer 1

The Hagias Sophia cathedral

Question 2

Why was the moldboard plow an essential element in the production of an agricultural surplus in Western Europe in the eighth century CE

Answer 2

All of the above (it made it possible to aerate the soil and break-up networks of weeds | it made it possible to farm lands that had previously been unsuited for agriculture due to rocks and heavy soil | when used with heavy draft animals, it had enough energy to pull through moist northern soils)

Question 3

All of the following are characteristics of Islam EXCEPT

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A tradition of passing down the central teachings of their faith orally

Question 4

The Mamluks were

Answer 4

Turkish mercenaries and slaves in the Abbasid Caliphate who rose to control powerful Muslim states

Question 5

Why was this period in Europe between 500 C.E. and 1300 C.E. called the “Middle Ages”?

Answer 5

It came between the Greco-Roman civilization and the Renaissance

Question 6

As Western Europe began to experience a revival on the period from 1000 to 1200 CE

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The Byzantine Empire and Russia did not share the same revival

Question 7

The Orthodox Church and the Latin Church

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formally split over doctrinal disputes in the 11th century but still united to fight together in the crusades

Question 8

Manor life

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Created a localized, basic, and self-sufficient agricultural economy that kept serfs protected

Question 9

Kievan Russia

Answer 9

Based its economic wealth on trade and traded extensively with the Byzantine Empire

Question 10

The sunni/Shi’ite split resulted from a disagreement

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Who should succeed Muhammad

Question 11

The word Islam means submission and refers to Muslim’s obligation

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To submit to the will of God in all of life

Question 12

The investiture controversy of the Middle Ages was

Answer 12

A disagreement between the Pope and secular rulers over the appointment of bishops

Question 13

What effect did the technology of water ills have on Western Europe life?

Answer 13

It freed human and animal labor for other work

Question 14

What effect did the Cyrillic alphabet have on Orthodox Christianity?

Answer 14

Simulated conversion to orthodox Christianity and promoted literacy among Slavs

Question 15

The vassal relationship

Answer 15

Required a knight to swear allegiance to a lord or king in return for money or fief

Question 16

Which of the following individuals is credited with establishing a standard for monastic life?

Answer 16

St. Benedict of Nursia

Question 17

A hereditary slave society never developed in the Islamic world because

Answer 17

Slaves usually converting to Islam, Austin causing their masters to free them, and then offspring of slave woman and Muslim men were free

Question 18

In what order did these three monotheistic religions coming to being?

Answer 18

Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Question 19

Kievan Russia became firmly oriented toward the Byzantine world and turned away from the Muslim world at once

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Vladimir 1 converted to orthodox Christianity

Question 20

Well the Byzantine Empire flourished directly after the fall of Rome,

Answer 20

The Western Europeans lived amidst the ruins of a empire

Question 21

The successful invasion of England was accomplished by

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William the Conqueror

Question 22

Which one of the following was not a common result of the bubonic plague?

Answer 22

A temporary decrease in workers’ wages

Question 23

Economics in Western Europe changed in later medieval period by

Answer 23

Allowing for more social mobility because of the end of serfdom and the rise of more urban job opportunities

Question 24

The universal language of Muslim empire was

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Arabic, because it was the language of the Quran

Question 25

Adherence to the five pillars of Islam is the foundation of Muslim faith. Which one was the first and most important one upon which of the others are based?

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Acknowledgement of Allah as the only deity and Muhammad as his prophet

Question 26

Which of the following is an accurate description of surfs and feudal Europe?

Answer 26

Semi free individuals who owed obligations to the lord whose land they cultivated

Question 27

The most important relationship in feudalism was between

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Lord and vassal

Question 28

Which of the following was true of the medieval realm?

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In many respects, the Lord of the Manor had more direct control than a king did

Question 29

Between 1100 and 1350 CE, Europe’s population more than doubled. Historians believe that this increase may have due to

Answer 29

A revival in the economy of Europe

Question 30

In response to the increase in population, some farmers in Europe

Answer 30

Try new methods of increasing yields like the three field system

Question 31

Cities were important in Islam for all of the following reasons except

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They were the only places where women could travel freely

Question 32

By the early 700s, Islamic empire stretched from

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Spain to India

Question 33

What’s the best defines the Mongols political relationship to Russia?

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Russian princes were persuaded to cooperate with Mongols khans and there by maintained some local authority

Question 34

The majority of urban growth in Europe from 1200 to 1500 was due to

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The growth in trade and manufacturing

Question 35

In most towns and cities, merchants, and skilled craftsmen regulated business practices, membership, and training, and promoted interests of their members in city government through

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Guilds

Question 36

The spread of the humanist movement benefited from

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The development of the printing press

Question 37

In medina, Muhammad can his followers formed a community of believers in Islam and in Muhammad as the “messenger of God”. The community was called the

Answer 37

Umma

Question 38

Between 636 and 639CE, the Muslims wretched both Syria and Egypt from

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The Byzantine empire

Question 39

The Byzantine (Justinian code) was important to later civilizations because it

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Become the basis for civil law in the West

Question 40

What effect did monasteries have on the expansion of agricultural production in early modern Europe?

Answer 40

They contributed to the expansion of agricultural production because they organized much of the labor needed to clear forests, drain swamps, and prepare lands of cultivation

Question 41

The Byzantine rulers set prices, controlled grain shipments to the cities, and monopolized trade in luxury goods. This government interventions

Answer 41

May have slowed technological development and economic innovation