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| 3169348636 | According to Procopius, two sixth century Christian monks undertook an elaborate smuggling operations to provide Byzantium with knowledge to produce what? | silk | 0 | |
| 3169382451 | The only classical society that survived the centuries after 400 C.E. was the | Byzantine | 1 | |
| 3169388599 | Byzantium's major advantage was | its strategic position on the bosporus | 2 | |
| 3169401555 | Which of the following statements about Constantinople is not true? | It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire. | 3 | |
| 3169421583 | Which part of the Mediterranean basin was never part of the Byzantine Empire? | Arabia; The Western half | 4 | |
| 3169431790 | Up through the eighth century, who was the chief foreign threat to the eastern Roman Empire? | The Sasanids | 5 | |
| 3169439232 | What was the most important political feature of the Byzantine state? | its tightly centralized power under a powerful emperor | 6 | |
| 3169445890 | The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors. | Caesaropapism | 7 | |
| 3169449531 | What do historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to? | The system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority. | 8 | |
| 3169462505 | The adjective byzantine, drawn from the government of Byzantium, stands for | Unnecessary complexity and convolution | 9 | |
| 3169478760 | Theodora's career before marrying Justinian was a | Striptease artist | 10 | |
| 3169483043 | Hagia Sophia was | the magnificent church at Constantinople | 11 | |
| 3169497768 | justinian's most important and long-lasting political achievement was | the codification of Roman law | 12 | |
| 3169503389 | Justinians issuance of the Corpus juris civlis | won recognition as the definitive codification of Roman law | 13 | |
| 3169511153 | Italy, Sicily, northwestern Africa, and southern Spain were brought back under imperial control by the military victories of | Belisarius | 14 | |
| 3169515054 | Constantinople withstood sieges in 674-678 and 717-718 by | arabic forces | 15 | |
| 3169546712 | One of the causes of Byzantine resurgence was political innovation wherein a general was given military and civil control over an imperial province or | theme | 16 | |
| 3169554629 | Byzantinian Ruler who led a resurgence of power in eleventh century by crushing the Bulgars was | Basil ll | 17 | |
| 3169562299 | the term GREEK FIRE refers to | This was a weapon they used made of sulphur, lime, and petroleum. It could burn on water which was a hazard around wooden ships. | 18 | |
| 3175663259 | Basil II crushed the Bulgars in 1014 at the Battle of | Kleidion | 19 | |
| 3175665581 | The wife of Justinian, who proved to be an invaluable adviser, was | Theodora | 20 | |
| 3175674609 | A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to what Frankish king? | Charlemagne | 21 | |
| 3175679171 | In the year 962, Otto of Saxony | claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Former Roman Empire | 22 | |
| 3175681990 | The theme system | it placed an imperial province under the jurisdiction of an army general who took responsibility for both its military defense and civil administration | 23 | |
| 3175689108 | By the late sixth century, Byzantium became the Mediterranean world's leading producer of | silk | 24 | |
| 3175690780 | The bezant | it was Byzantines standard currency of Meditteranean | 25 | |
| 3175695488 | From the sixth century on, the official language of Constantinople was | latin | 26 | |
| 3175700786 | The main factions during the Justinian's time who contested in the Hippodrome and two occasionally fought in the streets were | the greens and blues | 27 | |
| 3175705038 | What describes education in Byzantium? | Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society | 28 | |
| 3175712449 | In 325 c.e., in an effort to answer the Arians, Constantine brought together leading church men at the council of | Nicea | 29 | |
| 3175714654 | The Alexandrian priest, Arius, leader of the Arians, believed what? | Taught that Jesus used to be a mortal and was creation of God rather than a divine being | 30 | |
| 3175720464 | Emperor Leo lll inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy of | Iconoclasm | 31 | |
| 3175721149 | Who was the first and most famous of the pillar Saint? | St. Simeon Stylite | 32 | |
| 3175726200 | St. Basil of Caesarea played a key role in the rise of | Monasticism | 33 | |
| 3175731152 | What did the pope in Rome and the patriarch in Constantinople do to each other in 1054? | They mutually excommunicated and refused to recognize each other's church as properly Christian | 34 | |
| 3175735955 | The fourth crusade, in early 1204 | Sacked Constantinople and caused extreme harm to the Byzantine empire | 35 | |
| 3175744086 | In a disaster from which the Byzantine empire never really recovered Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the | Fourth crusade | 36 | |
| 3175746859 | In 1071 Byzantium lost the battle of Manzikert and control over Anatolia to the | Saljuqs | 37 | |
| 3175750657 | The Byzantine empire suffered a devastating loss to the Saljuq Turks in 1071 at the battle of | Manzikert | 38 | |
| 3175751924 | Constantinople finally fell in 1453 to the | Ottoman turks | 39 | |
| 3175752946 | Saints Methodist and cyril | Devised the Cyrillic alphabet | 40 | |
| 3175755532 | What city influenced heavily by Constantinople was most important in the early rise of russia | Kiev | 41 | |
| 3175757096 | The rise of orthodox Christianity in Russia was helped by the conversion in 989 of | Prince Vladimir of Kiev | 42 | |
| 3175759250 | By the 16th century Russians had begun to think of Moscow as | The third rome | 43 | |
| 3222717508 | Haji | the islamic pilgrimage to Mecca | 44 | |
| 3222718143 | islam means | submission | 45 | |
| 3222719000 | "One who has submitted" | Muslim | 46 | |
| 3222719536 | "House of Islam" | refers to the land under islamic rule, the phrase dar al- islam | 47 | |
| 3222721216 | Khadija | in muhammad's wife, a wealthy widow | 48 | |
| 3222722817 | the quran | is the holy book of islam | 49 | |
| 3222723843 | the turning point in the rise of Islam was | hijra(migration) when muhammad moved to Medina | 50 | |
| 3222724679 | islamic holy law | sharia | 51 | |
| 3222726102 | no religious leader could follow muhammad because | so political authority rested in the position of the caliph | 52 | |
| 3222729587 | caliph elected after muhammad's death | Abu Bakr | 53 | |
| 3222729997 | the shia believed | the caliphate should follow the line of Ali | 54 | |
| 3222730751 | the main split inside islam | sunni and shia | 55 | |
| 3222732311 | the umayyad dynasty came to power after the assassination of | Ali | 56 | |
| 3222736666 | umayyad governing policies reflected | the victorious Arab armies of the umayyad dynasty | 57 | |
| 3222738372 | Jizya | the umayyad forces allowed conquered peoples to maintain their own religions, but insisted that they pay a special head tax on those people who did not convert to islam, the head tax | 58 | |
| 3222741815 | The Abbasid dynasty was founded by | Abu al-Abbas | 59 | |
| 3222742924 | The Abbasid dynasty differed from the Umayyad dynasty in that | it was not a conquering dynasty | 60 | |
| 3222744547 | Baghdad | the capital of the Abbasid empire | 61 | |
| 3222746133 | ulama | people with religious knowledge | 62 | |
| 3222749377 | the high point of the Abbasid dynasty came during the reign of | Harun al-Rashid | 63 | |
| 3222750460 | the Saljuqs sultan was | during the last 200 years of the Abbasid empire fell to them | 64 | |
| 3222751836 | The Abbasid dynasty finally came to an end when | it was overrun by the mongols | 65 | |
| 3222752919 | The most important new crop that spread throughout the Islamic world were | cotton | 66 | |
| 3222754236 | Paper manufacture was transmitted to the Islamic world from _________, during the _______________ period? | China, Abbasid | 67 | |
| 3222755606 | caravanserais | inns offering lodging for caravan merchants and care for their animals | 68 | |
| 3222756994 | sakks allowed merchants to | islamic banks honored letters of credit, which could be drawn on the parent bank | 69 | |
| 3222758901 | Al-Andalus | its capital city is Cordoba | 70 | |
| 3222760525 | the quran allows men to have up to how many wives? | four | 71 | |
| 3222763717 | how did the conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia influence the role of the women in the Islamic world? | Islamic society became more patriarchal | 72 | |
| 3222768168 | the text of the quran has to be in _______ to be reliable | arabic | 73 | |
| 3222768578 | institutions of higher learning | madrasas | 74 | |
| 3222770660 | the sufis believed | in an emotional and mystical union with allah | 75 | |
| 3222773295 | the persian theologian who argued that human reason was too frail to understand the nature of allah was | the Persian al-Ghazali | 76 | |
| 3222777020 | what factors helped bring unity to islamic world? | Ka'ba at Mecca, Abbasid caliphs encouraged hajj, and pilgrims who made the trip to Mecca spread islamic values and beliefs all over parts of the Islamic world | 77 | |
| 3222780730 | Literary works of the abbasid dynasty reflect the influence of | Persia | 78 | |
| 3222781002 | Rubaiyat | the author was Omar Khayyam | 79 | |
| 3222781946 | the Arabian Nights is also known as | the thousand and one nights | 80 | |
| 3222782280 | Indian influence on islamic thought was most prevalent in the field of | math | 81 | |
| 3222784726 | arabic numbers originated in | india | 82 | |
| 3222785087 | Ibn Rushd | the islamic thinker who studied aristotle and whose thought, in turn, influenced the rise of European scholasticism | 83 | |
| 3222787596 | the main influence on the thought of ibn rushd was | Aristotle | 84 | |
| 3222790150 | ibn rushd's reliance on natural reason went too far for many muslims, who | who placed more value on the revelations of the Quran than on the fruits of human logic | 85 | |
| 3230668127 | Xuanzang was famous for | Traveling beyond the China border to India and back | 86 | |
| 3230677161 | Yang jian | The Sui dynasty was founded by | 87 | |
| 3230682756 | The grand canal was completed under the second Sui emperor | Sui yangdi | 88 | |
| 3230689192 | The principal conduit of internal trade in postclassical China that continues to function today | The grand canal | 89 | |
| 3230695255 | The grand canal stretched from what city in the south to what city in the north | Yangzhou to Beijing | 90 | |
| 3230701748 | The Tang Dynasty's energetic second ruler | Tang taizong | 91 | |
| 3230704198 | The equal field system | The tang plan to avoid the concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy | 92 | |
| 3230713281 | The imperial civil service system of the Tang Dynasty reflected | The heavy reliance on a bureaucracy based on merit most office holders won their posts because of intellectual ability | 93 | |
| 3230822247 | The Tang Dynasty | Confucianism, administration equal field system expansion into Korea/Vietnam tributary relationships between China and neighboring lands | 94 | |
| 3230827462 | Go to the blue sea look along the shore at all the old white bones forsaken | The post Du Fu | 95 | |
| 3230836867 | A ritual prostration in which subordinates knelt before the empire and touched their foreheads to the ground | The kowtow | 96 | |
| 3230846467 | Tang emperors were forced to invite the Turkish uighurs to bring an army into China and suppress a rebellion by | An lushan | 97 | |
| 3230849844 | Huang chao | Most of eastern China fell to this man, who rebelled because of popular discontent and who raided the wealthy and distributed his plunder to the poor | 98 | |
| 3230862382 | The first song emperor | Song taziu | 99 | |
| 3230866801 | The Song Dynasty was substantially weakened by | Raise taxes, and the military was lead by scholar bureaucrats who generally had little military intelligence it talents | 100 | |
| 3230876619 | The Song Dynasty ultimately fell to the | Mongols | 101 | |
| 3230891319 | Fast ripening rice | In Vietnam allowed more food to be produced | 102 | |
| 3230896255 | Foot binding is an example of | A patriarchal society | 103 | |
| 3230901186 | Chinese naval technological innovations included | South pointing needle aka compass | 104 | |
| 3230904935 | Flying cash | Letters of credit came into common use during the early tang period | 105 | |
| 3230909031 | In 1024 | The first paper money printed under government auspices appeared in Sichuan province | 106 | |
| 3230916665 | A sizable Buddhist community emerged in | Dunhuang in western China | 107 | |
| 3230926685 | In which of the following areas did Buddhism not become the major religion | India | 108 | |
| 3230933923 | Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term dharma as Dao | In an effort to win support in China by tying into Chinese traditions Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term | 109 | |
| 3230943074 | Chan buddhism | Most popular school of Buddhism in China | 110 | |
| 3230948572 | Japanese Zen Buddhism is based on | Chan Buddhism little interest emphasized intuition and sudden flashes of insight in their search for spiritual enlightenment | 111 | |
| 3230972497 | The closure of monasteries and expulsion of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christians and Manichaeans occurred in the 840s under the | Tang emperors | 112 | |
| 3230975482 | Zhu xi | The most influential neo-Confucian thinker | 113 | |
| 3230978999 | The neo Confucian scholar zhu xi | Maintained a deep commitment to Confucian values emphasizing proper behavior/social harmony became fascinated with he philosophical speculative features of Buddhist thought | 114 | |
| 3230994077 | The Silla dynasty never | Adopted the bureaucracy of merit | 115 | |
| 3231000008 | In the seventh century ce the Silla dynasty agreed to a political compromise with the Chinese Dynasty | Silla | 116 | |
| 3231004539 | The relationship between Chinese and viet people was characterized by | Resisted but then readily adopted Chinese agricultural Methods and irrigation systems and school administration techniques | 117 | |
| 3231007199 | As compared to Chinese woman Vietnamese woman | Played a much more prominent role in Vietnamese society and economy | 118 | |
| 3231009112 | The indigenous religion of Japan is | Shinto | 119 | |
| 3231011419 | Chinese influence on Japan was most profound during | Nara period | 120 | |
| 3231012825 | The Japanese city of Nara was a | Chang'an | 121 | |
| 3231015376 | The tale of genii was written by | Murasaki shikibu, a lady in waiting at the heian court | 122 | |
| 3231017063 | Murasaki shikibu was | Responsible for the creation of the tale of genji | 123 | |
| 3231021819 | In 1185 the minamoto clan defeated their rival the taira clan and installed a | Didn't seek to abolish imperial authority but claimed to rule the land in the name of the emperor | 124 | |
| 3231027318 | In place of the Japanese emperor, a military governor with the title of Ruled | Shogun | 125 | |
| 3236997636 | The shipmaster Buzurg ibn shahriyar | shipmaster from Siraf who wrote the "Book of the wonders of India." | 126 | |
| 3237015863 | postclassical india's political structure never | developed a single centralized imperial rule | 127 | |
| 3237022197 | in 451 ce an invasion by the white hun began the collapse of the | Gupta state | 128 | |
| 3237026782 | India was not completely reunited after the collapse of the gupta dynasty until | 16th century, when a turkish people known as the mughals extended their authority and their empire to most of the subcontinent | 129 | |
| 3237036292 | When comparing northern and southern India during the postclassical era, it can be stated that | southern conflicts were less frequent, less intense, and less damaging than those that plagued the north | 130 | |
| 3237041286 | The scholarly Buddhist emperor | reunited northern india in 7th century was King Harsha | 131 | |
| 3237044265 | King Harsha was known for | his piety, liberality, and scholarship | 132 | |
| 3237044399 | In 711, Arab forces | the northern area of Sind fell to the Umayyad dynasty | 133 | |
| 3237047762 | Cambay was | the most important trading port in india fro 500-1500 | 134 | |
| 3237123897 | islam reached india by | Muslim merchants, military, migration/invasions | 135 | |
| 3237125488 | mahmud of ghazni was | the islamic ruler, who led 17 different raiding expeditions into India in the 11th century | 136 | |
| 3237131742 | mahmud of ghazni's main inspiration for visiting india was | plundering in wealth stored in its many well endowed temples | 137 | |
| 3237135640 | as a result of the campaigns of mahmud of ghazni | the demolishing of hundreds of sites associated with Hindu or Buddhist faith, and did not encourage indians to turn to Islam | 138 | |
| 3237149630 | From the twelfth through the early sixteenth century, northern india was dominated by | Sultanate of Delhi | 139 | |
| 3237152563 | The Delhi sultans were | there were 35 who prominently sponsored islam and helped establish a secure place for their faith in the cultural landscape of india | 140 | |
| 3237196069 | From 850 through 1267, this wealthy trading state controlled southern india | the chola kingdom | 141 | |
| 3237198641 | southern india's kingdoms were mainly | regional | 142 | |
| 3237204484 | in 1336, harihara and bukka founded the southern kingdom of | vijayanagar | 143 | |
| 3237210192 | vijayanagar means | city of victory | 144 | |
| 3237212630 | the changing monsoon winds ensured that | indians required irrigation during the dry month | 145 | |
| 3237217151 | by 1500, the population of india had reached | 105 million | 146 | |
| 3237218958 | hindu temples | served as economic and social centers and also provided basic schooling for boys in community | 147 | |
| 3237347092 | india was a natural site for the establishment of emporia because | it stood in the middle of the indian ocean basin | 148 | |
| 3237350716 | adulis was | axum | 149 | |
| 3237355968 | during the postclassical age the caste system became more complex and | adapted to the arrival of migrants and helped integrate them into indian society, also influenced the lives of most people by helping to order their work/relationships with other workers | 150 | |
| 3237361096 | shankara was a 9th century thinker, who believed that | the physical world was an illusion and that ultimate reality lay beyond the physical senses | 151 | |
| 3237371380 | the words "one should engage himself in singing of me, praising me" are drawn from what 9th century indian document | bhagavata purana | 152 | |
| 3237377699 | ramanuja the 12th century devotee of vishnu believed that | personal devotion and personal union with the deity was more important than an intellectual understanding of ultimate reality | 153 | |
| 3237384107 | by 1500, 25 million indians were muslims, which amounts to about what portion of the population | 1/4 | 154 | |
| 3237385755 | the bhakti movement | a cult of love and devotion that ultimately sought to erase the distinction between hinduism and islam | 155 | |
| 3237632995 | Guru Kabir believed | that there was a single, universal deity that all devout believers could find in their hearts | 156 | |
| 3237635566 | Which of the following was a bhakti teacher who believed that Shiva, Vishnu, and Allah were all manifestations of a single, universal deity? | Guru Kabir | 157 | |
| 3237643288 | The philosophy of the bhakti teacher, Guru Kabir, was similar to that of | mani | 158 | |
| 3237646195 | The bhakti belief that all gods were manifestations of a single, universal deity is most similar | manichaeism | 159 | |
| 3237649221 | What Indian concepts became popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by India? | ruling elites became acquainted with indian political/cultural traditions borrowed forms of political organization and accepted indian religious faiths, adopted kingship as principal form of political authority | 160 | |
| 3237652671 | Funan, the first Southeast Asian state to reflect Indian influence, was centered on its capital port city of | oc ec. | 161 | |
| 3237655035 | The lower reaches of which Southeast Asian river was dominated Funan? | mekong | 162 | |
| 3237659129 | The kingdom of Srivijaya was based | kings built a powerful navy and controlled commerce in se asian waters taxed ships passing through the region maintained an all sea trade route between china and india | 163 | |
| 3237661301 | The design of the Khmer temples at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat show | the influence of the indian traditions in southeast asia | 164 | |
| 3237666235 | The temples of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat were built by | Funan and angkor | 165 | |
| 3237671510 | Funan and Angkor were | land based states that derived most of their wealth from productive agricultural economy | 166 | |
| 3237674269 | Srivijaya and Angkor made deep commitments | to buddhism | 167 | |
| 3237677284 | Paramesvara was | founding the melaka state | 168 | |
| 3237681245 | Melaka differed significantly from earlier states in | became predominantly islamic | 169 | |
| 3237771949 | At the battle of Tours in 732 CE | charles martel defeated an islamic force | 170 | |
| 3237774662 | In 802, Charlemagne received | an albino elephant | 171 | |
| 3237776820 | The developments of the early medieval era that served as foundations for the development of the powerful European society that emerged after 1000 CE included all of the following EXCEPT? | was:restoring political order, a process of economic recovery, and building an institutional framework that enabled the christian church based in rome to provide religious leadership maintain cultural unity | 172 | |
| 3237778988 | The last of the Roman emperors was deposed in 476 CE by the invasion of | the germans and their general odoacer | 173 | |
| 3237781944 | Which of the following pairings between Germanic tribes and the area they invaded is correct? | visigoths-spain, ostrogoths-italy, burgundians/franks-gaul, angles/saxon-britain | 174 | |
| 3237784639 | Spain was conquered by | visigoths | 175 | |
| 3237788091 | What group seemed likely to play a prominent role in European affairs after the collapse of western Roman authority? | germanic invaders | 176 | |
| 3237790377 | Ostrogoths dominated | italy | 177 | |
| 3237794310 | The Germanic tribe that played the most important role in establishing the foundations of European development | franks | 178 | |
| 3237797985 | Clovis' conversion to Christianity led | to a century long relationship with popes in rome | 179 | |
| 3237802537 | Which of the following statements is not true about Clovis | is true: led franks on a campaign that wiped out the last vestiges of roman authority in gaul, imposed his authority on the franks himself, organized campaigns against other germanic people whose states bordered their realm | 180 | |
| 3237805385 | The influence of Clotilda, the wife of Clovis, is made apparent by his decision to | convert to christianity | 181 | |
| 3237808320 | After the death of Clovis | the frankish kings lost much of their authority, and aristocratic warriors seized effective control of affairs in their region | 182 | |
| 3237815565 | The Carolingian dynasty is named for | charles martel | 183 | |
| 3237818558 | Charlemagne's temporarily restored centralized imperial rule, much like | king harsha in india | 184 | |
| 3237821936 | Who made the following statement? "For I have invoked my own gods, but, as I see, they have withdrawn from aiding me..." | clovis | 185 | |
| 3237824315 | Charlemagne maintained diplomatic relations with | the byzantine empire and the abbasid caliphate | 186 | |
| 3237826614 | Acahen was the location of | capital of his empire | 187 | |
| 3237830781 | Charlemagne's administration | temporarily reestablished centralized imperial rule | 188 | |
| 3237836322 | Charlemagne was able to impose his rule on the Saxons of northern Germany after a campaign that lasted | 32 years | 189 | |
| 3237837887 | Missi dominici, | envoys of the lord ruler | 190 | |
| 3237844671 | Imperial officials responsible for reviewing the accounts of local authorities | missi dominici | 191 | |
| 3237848647 | When presented with the imperial crown, it is possible Charlemagne | became emperor | 192 | |
| 3237853178 | Pope Leo III | on christmas day 800 gave charlemagne the imperial crown | 193 | |
| 3237855024 | Louis the Pious | kept the carolingian empire together, but lost control of the counts and other local authorities | 194 | |
| 3237857861 | The Carolingian Empire dissolved after the death | of Louis the Pouis | 195 | |
| 3237860543 | Which three groups invaded Europe in the ninth century? | muslims, magyars, vikings | 196 | |
| 3237863711 | During the ninth and tenth centuries, Constantinople was raided at least three times by the | vikings | 197 | |
| 3237866688 | The westernmost point of Viking expansion | greenland and north america | 198 | |
| 3237868659 | About the year 1000 CE, | established a colony in newfoundland vikings | 199 | |
| 3237872630 | In the ninth century, King Alfred | unified england | 200 | |
| 3237875845 | The foundation of the Holy Roman Empire was marked | when otto received a crown from the pope | 201 | |
| 3237878271 | At the battle of Lechfeld in 955 | saxony defeated the magyars | 202 | |
| 3237880536 | Feudalism once referred to | the political and social order of medieval europe | 203 | |
| 3237881806 | Responsibility for maintaining order in medieval society fell to | lords | 204 | |
| 3237886416 | The most important relationship in feudalism was between | lords and retainers | 205 | |
| 3237889518 | Serfs were | grants lands to retainers | 206 | |
| 3237892480 | Retainers owed loyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in exchange for | grants | 207 | |
| 3237896273 | The medieval political system | was a decentralized society | 208 | |
| 3237899616 | Agricultural production in Europe increased, in large part, due | to increase in food supply | 209 | |
| 3237902993 | The population of Europe rose to thirty six million by the year | 1000 | 210 | |
| 3237904967 | Pope Gregory I | provided the roman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy | 211 | |
| 3237906585 | The Rule came from | st. benedict | 212 | |
| 3237909180 | The nun St. Scholastica | the benedictine rule was spread to women living in convents | 213 |
