Hist of Western Civ to Renais true or false questions

Hist of Western Civ to Renais true or false questions

Chapter 1

1. Constantine’s biggest building project was the construction

of a new capital city in Carthage.

2. Nero made Christianity the official religion of the Roman

Empire.

3. One of the major heresies of the fourth century was Stoicism

the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God.

4. The last Roman emperor Hadrian was deposed in 492.

5. Belisarius established the Frankish kingdom.

6. In Frankish law, the wergeld of a wife of childbearing age

was considerably higher than that of a man.

7. According to church tradition, Jesus had given the keys to the

kingdom of heaven to Peter, who was considered the chief

apostle and the first bishop of Rome.

8. Women played an important role in the monastic missionary

movement and the conversion of the Germanic kingdoms.

9.

Augustine’s most famous work is

The City of God.

10.

The reconstructed empire of Justinian lasted until the

fifteenth century.

11.

Justinian’s most important contribution was the

codification of Roman law.

12.

Until the twelfth century, London was Europe’s greatest

commercial center.

13.

The citizens of Constantinople were passionate fans of

chariot racing.

14.

The year of Muhammad’s journey to Constantinople,

known in history as Hegira, became year 1 in the official

calendar of Islam.

15.

An internal dissension over the caliphate created a split

in Islam between the Shi’ites and the Sunnites.

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16.

Clovis’s campaign against the Muslims in Spain was

extremely successful.

17.

The Carolingian governing system was extremely

efficient.

18.

Pope Leo in 800 placed a crown on Clovis’s head and

declared him the emperor of the Romans.

19.

Virtually 90 percent of the ancient Roman works that

we have today exist because they were copied by Carolingian

monks.

20.

A Frankish church council in 1299 stipulated that

marriage was “indissoluble.”

21.

Monastic rations in the eighth century were greatly

enlarged in the eighth century to include a daily allotment of

9.5 cups of wine or ale.

22.

The Carolingian Empire began to expand soon after

Charlemagne’s death.

23.

A Viking site in North America was founded in what

became Houston, Texas.

24.

The major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to

perform military service.

25.

Compared to the Byzantine Empire or Muslim

caliphates, Western Europe in the early Middle Ages was an

underdeveloped, predominantly agricultural society.

26.

In 762, the Abbasids built a new capital city, Timbuktu,

on the Tigris River.

27.

During the first few centuries of the Arab empire it was

the Islamic world that saved and spread the scientific and

philosophical works of ancient civilizations.

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28.

As the church stepped up efforts to curb socially

destructive fighting in the twelfth century, tournaments began

to be organized.

29.

Between 1000 and 1300, Europe experienced a

dramatic increase in population.

30.

Alcohol was banned in the monasteries in the tenth

century.

31.

Eleanor of Aquitaine assisted her sons in rebelling

against her husband, William the Conqueror.

32.

Windmills became important by the end of the twelfth

century in Europe.

33.

By the end of the eighth century, Venice, on the

northeastern coast, had emerged as a town with close trading

ties to the Byzantine Empire.

34.

Urban crime was a major problem in the towns of the

High Middle Ages.

35.

The first European university was founded in Italy.

36.

Medieval universities shared in the violent atmosphere

of the age.

37.

The Gothic cathedrals were first built in the seventh

century.

38.

By 1300, London was the largest city in England with

over 450,000 people.

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39.

The power of the English monarch was greatly

increased during the reign of Henry II.

40.

During the reign of Henry II’s son Charlemagne, the

English parliament emerged.

41.

By the end of the thirteenth century, France was the

largest, wealthiest, and best governed monarchial state in

Europe.

42.

During the Middle Ages, Cordoba had a population

exceeding 800,000 people.

43.

The Mongols conquered Baghdad and destroyed the

Abbasid caliphate by 1058.

44.

In the thirteenth century, the Catholic church reached

the height of its political, intellectual, and secular power.

45.

The interdict, which forbade which forbade priests to

dispense the sacraments of the church, was one Pope

Innocent’s most powerful spiritual weapons.

46.

The Seventh Lateran Council decreed that Jews must

wear distinguishing marks, such as ribbons, yellow badges,

and special veils, and cloaks to differentiate themselves from

Christians.

47.

Between 1250 and 1300, tolerance toward

homosexuality declined in Europe.

48.

The immediate impetus for the Crusades came when the

Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked Pope Urban II for help

against the Seljuk Turks.

49.

From the point of view of the Pope and European

monarchs, the Crusades offered a way to rid Europe of

contentious young nobles who disturbed the peace and

wasted lives and energy fighting with each other.

50.

During the Third Crusade, the city of Alexandria was

captured in 986 after a seven month siege.

51.

Islamic forces sacked the city of Constantinople in 1204

during the Tenth Crusade.

52.

Genoa, Pisa and especially Venice, became rich and

powerful during the Crusades.

53.

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54.

The Black Death of the mid-eleventh century was the

most devastating natural disaster in European history.

55.

Virulent anti-Semitism accompanied the Black Death.

56.

Joan of Arc was made a saint of the Roman Catholic

Church in 1178.

57.

Gunpowder and cannon technology spread to Europe

by the seventh century.

58.

The Divine Comedy

is Dante’s greatest masterpiece.

59.

The mechanical clock was invented at the end of the

thirteenth century and perfected in the fourteenth century.

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60.

Renaissance Italy was largely an agricultural society.

61.

The city of Dresden regained its preeminence in

banking in the fifteenth century, due primarily to the Medici

family.

62.

Everywhere in Europe in the late fourteenth and

fifteenth centuries, urban poverty decreased dramatically.

63.

Niccolo Machiavelli stressed the ethical side of a

prince’s activity – how a ruler ought to behave based on

Christian moral principals.

64.

The Bible of Johannes Gutenberg was the first true

book produced in the West with movable type.

65.

Monet’s David was the first known life-size

freestanding bronze nude in European art since antiquity