Test Bank Docx Chapter 14 Barbarian Kingdoms West End

Chapter 14

1. instructor questions: 5 multiple choice, 10 T/F
2. The author ______, who wrote the Consolation of Philosophy and important texts on music, arithmetic, astronomy, and geometry, was immensely popular in the Middle Ages.
   1. Symmachus
   2. Boethius (pp. 501–502)
   3. Luxorius
   4. Isidore
3. The Battle of ______ in 507, between the Visigoths under Alaric II and the Franks, resulted in Alaric’s death and the loss of most of the Visigothic possessions in Spain.
   1. Vouillé (p. 498)
   2. Paris
   3. Provence
   4. Toulouse
4. Which of the following was not a solution to the problem of where to settle barbarians in the lands of the former western empire?
   1. Grants to land that once belonged to the Roman government
   2. Shares in Roman tax receipts that could be used to buy land
   3. Land purchased by the church and then distributed free of charge (pp. 495–497)
   4. Roman landowners’ sharing some of their estates with barbarian settlers
5. The surviving letter collection of which author is considered the last Latin letter collection that reflects the spirit of classical antiquity?
   1. Columbanus
   2. Bonitus
   3. Boethius
   4. Desiderius (p. 508)
6. The important Frankish office of ______ was held by such figures as Charles Martel and Pepin the Short.
   1. Mayor of the Palace (p. 506)
   2. Viscount
   3. Master of Horse
   4. Chancellor of the Realm
7. The Burgundians had one set of laws that applied to the Burgundians, and one set of laws that applied the Romans. (F, p. 504)
8. Arthur, a western Briton warlord later nicknamed “The Duke of Battles,” eventually became the subject of the legends and romances of “King Arthur.” (T, p. 502)
9. The Third Council of Toledo saw the Visigoths convert to Nicene Christianity, which created a completely Nicene Christian world in western Europe. (T, p. 498)
10. Recent studies suggest that the dissimilarities between Arians and Nicenes in western Europe were greater, and at the root of more political violence, than was once thought. (F, p. 497)
11. None of the barbarian kingdoms had an economy or bureaucracy as complex as the Roman imperial ones. (T, p. 495)
12. The Vandals all but disappeared from history after their defeats at the hands of the Byzantine army. (T, p. 500)
13. Even though Ireland was never directly occupied by the Romans, it went on to become one of the most important centers for the preservation of classical culture. (T, p. 503)
14. The “Renaissance” that began in the fourteenth century was only the latest in a line of European “Renaissances” that included the earlier Visigothic and Carolingian Renaissances. (T, p. 509)
15. The Vandal kingdom in North Africa had its capital in Alexandria. (F, p. 499)
16. After Clovis’ death, the kingdom passed to his wife and brother, a policy that created a great deal of trouble for the Merovingian dynasty. (F, p. 505)