The End Of Antiquity (476 640) Full Test Bank Ch15

CHAPTER 15 THE END OF ANTIQUITY (476–640)

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 01

1. One major source of conflict between the Romans and the various barbarians was _______.

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a. the ingrained paganism of the barbarians

b. the barbarians’ use of origin myths

c. the status of bishops

d. property

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 02

2. Who was the most capable Visigothic king in Gaul, who issued a law code in his own name?

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a. Ardo

b. Euric

c. Wamba

d. Roderic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 03

3. What were the two law codes of the Burgundians?

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a. “The Roman Law of the Burgundians”

b. “The Nicene Dictates”

c. “The Law of Gundobad” (p. 553) d. “The Law of Alliances”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 04

4. Who wrote his immensely popular work the Consolation of Philosophy while he was awaiting execution?

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a. Cassiodorus

b. Dionysius Exiguus

c. Boethius

d. Theoderic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 05

5. Within only a few months and several battles against the Byzantines, the _______ kingdom had been destroyed and North Africa reintegrated into the Roman/Byzantine Empire.

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a. Visigothic

b. Angle

c. Ostrogothic

d. Vandal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 06

6. Who became the national saint of Ireland after his death?

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a. Patrick

b. Clovis

c. Clotilda

d. Syagrius

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 07

7. Who united the various Frankish subgroups, greatly expanded the Frankish kingdom, and founded the Merovingian dynasty?

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a. Patrick

b. Clovis

c. Clotilda

d. Alaric II

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 08

8. During the second half of the sixth century, an official called the _______ achieved increasing importance in the Frankish administration.

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a. Chief Scribe

b. Man-At-Arms

c. Mayor of the Palace

d. Exchequer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 09

9. The Byzantine emperor Zeno attempted to deal with continued religious unrest in the empire by issuing the _______ in 492.

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a. Ephesian Edicts

b. Encheiridion

c. Creed of Chalcedon

d. Henotikon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 10

10. The general Belisarius was ordered by Justinian to suppress days of political rioting in Constantinople that became known as what?

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a. The Nika Revolt

b. The Golden Horn Rebellion

c. The Circus Riots

d. The Hagia Sophia Riots

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 11

11. Heraclius adopted what ancient Greek title as Byzantine emperor?

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a. Anax

b. Archon

c. Basileus

d. Prostatēs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 12

12. In central Hejaz, the most important city was _______.

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a. Yathrib

b. Mecca

c. Palmyra

d. Damascus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 13

13. What does the word “Islam” mean?

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a. “Commandments”

b. “Deliverance”

c. “Path”

d. “Submission”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 14

14. What does the word “Qu’ran” mean?

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a. “Commandments”

b. “Deliverance”

c. “Recitation”

d. “Submission”

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 15

15. The early dispute over leadership was one of the factors that caused Islam to split into which two main denominations?

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a. Salafis

b. Shi’as

c. Sunnis

d. Suffis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 16

16. The shrunken Byzantine empire held out until Constantinople fell in 1453 to whom?

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a. The Ottoman Turks

b. The Venetians and Genovese

c. Genghis Khan

d. Tamerlane

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 17

17. The _______ began under the auspices of Charlemagne.

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a. Wars of Succession

b. Carolingian Renaissance

c. Duchy of Rome

d. Crusades

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 18

18. By the year 650, the ancient world had been succeeded by the three worlds of the Middle Ages. What are they?

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a. The Scandinavian Empire

b. The Islamic World

c. The Byzantine Empire

d. Roman Catholic Europe

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 19

19. The Carolingian Empire was centered in what area on this map?

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a. The Byzantine Empire

b. The Islamic World

c. Western Europe

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 20

20. The figure on the right is the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. He is shown here defeating the New Persian king _______, who had sacked Jerusalem in 614 and taken the True Cross and other Christian treasures back to Persia.

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a. Peroz

b. Belisarius

c. Kavad

d. Chosroes