Question 1

What were the causes of the decline of the Abbasid dynasty?

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Question 2

Islam spread so quickly in the seventh and eighth centuries because:

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A)   Muslims insisted that all conquered peoples convert to Islam.
B)   there were no Christians in the first lands that Muslims conquered.
C)   the Pact of Unmark allowed for the total destruction of subject cities.
D)   the Byzantines and Persians had become exhausted by their long wars against each other.
E)   the subject peoples in conquered lands welcomed the Muslims as liberators.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 3

Underlying the Carolingian Renaissance was the basic conviction that:

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A)   classical learning was the foundation on which Christian wisdom rested.
B)   the Bible could be best appreciated if it were translated into robust French and German idioms.
C)   original Latin poetry and epic literature were the highest form of art.
D)   proper Christian doctrine should be widely disseminated and heretical beliefs should be strictly punished.
E)   to be better Christians,everyone should pray and devote their lives to the Church.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

What accounts for the rapid growth of Islam?

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Question 5

What was the impact of Justinian's law code on the Middle Ages?

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Question 6

Although the Iconoclastic Controversy was eventually resolved,its lasting effects included the:

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A)   sale or handing over of Byzantine portraits to the Muslims.
B)   destruction of nearly all pre-eighth-century religious art in the Byzantine empire.
C)   adoption of conservative clothing styles by nobles and common people.
D)   gradual acceptance of religious diversity in the East.
E)   banning of all monastic orders within the Byzantine empire.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 7

Sexual relations within upper-class Muslim society around the year 1000 differed from classical Greek and Roman patterns because:

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A)   Muslims abhorred homosexuality,whereas Greeks and Romans did not.
B)   Muslim men had sexual access to slaves and concubines,whereas Greeks and Romans did not.
C)   women were highly valued in Muslim society,whereas they were not in Greece or Rome.
D)   Muslim men were permitted to have more than one wife,whereas Greek and Roman men were not.
E)   all of theseF) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

The seventh century C.E.was a turning point in the history of Western civilization because:

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A)   the entire Mediterranean world converted to Christianity.
B)   the Greco-Roman world of antiquity divided into Byzantine,Islamic,and Latin Christian realms.
C)   trade connections between North Africa and the Near East were ruptured by the Islamic conquests.
D)   the entire Mediterranean world converted to Islam.
E)   all of theseF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 9

The instability faced in the West by the mid-seventh century may be attributed to:

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A)   Justinian's failed efforts to reconquer the western empire.
B)   excessive taxes on agricultural lands.
C)   Muslim raiders who disrupted trade routes.
D)   the fact that much agricultural land was passing out of production and slave labor was less productive.
E)   all of theseF) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 10

Charles Martel is regarded as one of the founders of the Frankish Kingdom due to his defeat of a Muslim force near Paris.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The Byzantine economy in the early Middle Ages was:

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A)   highly regulated,including wage and price controls.
B)   subject to wild fluctuations due to currency debasement.
C)   industrially underdeveloped.
D)   renowned for its use of paper money.
E)   depressed due to being cut off from trade with northern Europe.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 12

The Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia was influential in the history of architecture because it:

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A)   was constructed in a way that made light appear to come from directly above.
B)   placed a massive dome on a building with a square shape.
C)   was highly innovative in its external appearance and marble embellishment.
D)   was the first Christian church converted into a mosque.
E)   was the first building constructed completely from concrete.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 13

The economic base of the Abbasid caliphate lay in:

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A)   the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia.
B)   the Nile Delta.
C)   Syria and Lebanon.
D)   Anatolia,in modern-day Turkey.
E)   its capital,Constantinople.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 14

In general,the Christian monasticism of the fourth,fifth,and sixth centuries was a response to:

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A)   unprecedented cooperation among the first popes and Roman emperors.
B)   the high level of religious devotion found in the cities of the late Roman Empire.
C)   the increasing worldliness of the church,the patronage of powerful families like the Merovingians,and a hunger to transform lives in accordance with the will of God.
D)   religious teachings that encouraged extraordinary feats of self-denial and self-abasement.
E)   the devastation caused by the collapse of the Roman Empire and the desire to escape from the prevailing turmoil.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

The stability of Byzantine government was the product of:

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A)   a highly centralized palace government.
B)   a predictable system of succession to the imperial throne.
C)   an efficient bureaucracy.
D)   regulated wages and prices.
E)   all of theseF) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 16

Women from wealthy Byzantine families:

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A)   did not receive classical educations,since they were destined for domestic life.
B)   could read but were not allowed to write history,novels,or poetry.
C)   were generally educated at home by tutors,and some became literary figures of note.
D)   were encouraged by parents to become actresses and singers like the Empress Theodora.
E)   were educated in the public schools alongside the men.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

The Vikings are generally regarded as being a destructive force in European history:

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A)   but such a view may not be correct in light of the principalities they established across northern Europe from Ireland to Russia.
B)   as evidenced by the raids they staged on virtually every population center in Europe from London to Paris to Rome itself.
C)   because of the destruction caused to a great many monasteries throughout Europe and the accompanying loss of the libraries in those monasteries.
D)   but this has been exaggerated since they stayed mostly in Scandinavia with only a few raids into England and northern France,destructive though those were.
E)   which is true,but they have an undeservedly bad reputation when compared with the Magyars who conducted raids into western and southern Europe.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 18

Why were so many convents (monastic houses for women) founded during the seventh century C.E.?

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A)   Convents met a variety of social and spiritual needs for aristocratic families.
B)   Lower-class women flocked to convents as an improvement on the drudgery of their lives.
C)   Nuns were the only women allowed to become priests.
D)   Convents were a way for the families that founded them to make money.
E)   all of theseF) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 19

How can Muhammad be described as both a prophet and a statesman?

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Question 20

The Hijrah (Hegira) refers to the Prophet Muhammad's move from:

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A)   Medina to Mecca.
B)   Mecca to Quadratic.
C)   Medina to Quadratic.
D)   Quadratic to Mecca.
E)   Mecca to Medina.F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The Vikings are generally regarded as being a destructive force in European history:

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The Byzantine economy in the early Middle Ages was:

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The instability faced in the West by the mid-seventh century may be attributed to:

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What was the impact of Justinian's law code on the Middle Ages?

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In general,the Christian monasticism of the fourth,fifth,and sixth centuries was a response to:

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Underlying the Carolingian Renaissance was the basic conviction that:

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Women from wealthy Byzantine families:

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How can Muhammad be described as both a prophet and a statesman?

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