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 |