Unit 1: Byzantine, Kievan Rus, Europe Quiz

Question 1

B: geograohy

Answer 1

-located on Mediterranean sea lanes, Silk Road, Indian Ocean
-in between Europe and Asia
-Capital: constantinople/ “the city”

Question 2

B: Politics

Answer 2

-absolute, centralized gov., theocracy, imperial military
>empereur: in charge of government and church, Justinian law code (civil law), provencial governments
.bureaucracy: educated elites and landlords, collected taxes and tributes

Question 3

B: Economic

Answer 3

-trade: merchants work for gov, agriculture based
-gold coin currency
-land owned by landowners

Question 4

B: Religious

Answer 4

Eastern Church
-pope had no power in Byzantine church where state had more control
>Great Schism (1054): patriarch v. Pope
- patriarch excommunicates Roman Catholics, pope excommunicates Patriarchy

Question 5

B: Social

Answer 5

1. emperuer
2. bureaucracy
3. merchnats + artisans
4. peasants: highly taxed, tied to the land
   -rich women had rights
   -empereurs ruled by divine right of kinds

Question 6

B: Intellectual/ Arts

Answer 6

> Roman-greco: gold mosaics and domesL art and architecture are religious
education: w/ religious lens` universities, house of wisdom influence

Question 7

B: internal factors of decline

Answer 7

-peasant revolts due to high tazes
-religious divisions: Great Schism (orthodox v Catholism)
-unequal distribution of wealth, big land owners
-civil wars

Question 8

B: external factors of decline:

Answer 8

Ottoman Turks, constant pressure from outside invasions

Question 9

K: Political

Answer 9

-decentralized gov, collection of city-states
>head: Grand Prince of Kiev
-local princes of city states pay tribute to Grand Prince of Kiev
>law codeL influenced by Byzantine, “Russian Justice”

Question 10

2 Russian Themes

Answer 10

autocratic, expansion

Question 11

K: Economic

Answer 11

> agricultural basedL Boyards to landowners to peasants
trade: w/ Byzantine: timber, fur, honey, slaves
- allowed Kiev to get art, religion, gold silk from Byzantine

Question 12

K: Religion

Answer 12

Russian Orthodox: unifying factor of city states
>Vladmir I: converted to Russian orthodox, before were pagean and polytheistic religions
>onion domes: russian dome architecture on orthodox churches

Question 13

K: society

Answer 13

1. Grand prince of Kiev
2. local princes
3. Boyars: landowners, aristocrats, under local princes, pay tribute to them
4. only a few merchants and artisans
5. peasants

Question 14

K: Intellectual/ Arts

Answer 14

• Byzantine influenced: art, architecture, music
  -Cyrllic alphabet

Question 15

WE: Political

Answer 15

-decentralized governemnt run by feudalism and the Catholic church

Question 16

WE: feudalism

Answer 16

-political, economic, and societal system based on birth
>social order
1. king: rule by “divine right of kings
2. lords
3. vassals
4. Knights
5. few merchants and artisans
6. peasants/serfs
> down-up: everyone is loyal to those above them, give them taxes (like food)
>up-down: land (fief) and protection

Question 17

WE: Catholic Church

Answer 17

-has more social, political, and economic power than the feudal system + over feudal kings
-loaned money, sold indulgences(pay to get into heaven)
-founded 1st universities
>social hierarchy:
1. pope
2. arch-bishop
3. bishop

Question 18

WE: decline of western europe+ what undermined feudalism/catholic church

Answer 18

> Black Death: peach in 1350s, killed 60 million people in Eur
100 Years War: 1330s-1450s: killed people, lead to more starvation and food instability
Great Schism: who should be the pope?
Little Ice age: leads to more food instability

Question 19

WE: role of women

Answer 19

-completely dependednt on men
-could only hold power as a nun with monastic life