If you know a lot about history, and have some time on your hands... could you please help me study for my exam tomorrow? I know, KMC's purpose isn't to do my homework for me/help me study... I've always been bad at history and haven't done well in the class. This is my final exam and these are the questions on the study guide that will be on the exam, ANY help would be much appreciated. It's History to 1500:
1. The late second century AD crisis in the Roman Empire began with:
a. Soldiers bringing back plague from a Parthian war.
b. A breakdown of communications with Sicily.
c. The expansion of Christianity.
d. Revolts by the coloni.
2. Who posed an important military threat to the Roman Empire in the third century AD on the Rhine?
a. Goths and Alamanni.
b. Scythians and Goths.
c. Franks and Alamanni.
d. Persians and Franks.
3. Who began the creation of the late Roman Empire?
a. Brasidas.
b. Diocletian.
c. Aurelian.
d. Ptolemy.
4. Which of the following was one way Diocletian reduced the possibility of revolt?
a. He conducted repeated raids on the Franks.
b. He increased trade with Greece.
c. He removed all power from the Senate and reduced it to the status of a city council.
d. He reduced the status of the emperor from princeps to dominus.
5. The name of the battle where Constantine attributed his victory to the Christian God was:
a. Milvian Bridge.
b. Actium.
c. Graeci Romanum.
d. Milan.
6. The teaching of Arianism argued that:
a. God and Jesus were the same entity.
b. There was no such thing as the Holy Spirit
c. Jesus could not have been both human and divine.
d. Jesus was subordinate to and of a different nature from God.
7. One of the most important autobiographies to exist from late antiquity was by:
a. St. Ambrose.
b. St. Jerome.
c. St. Augustine.
d. St. Gregory.
8. One of the most prominent women in the early Christian movement was:
a. Melania the Elder.
b. Melania the Pious.
c. Melania the Christian.
d. Melania Pontifex.
9. Both Christian and pagan literary works were preserved in what form?
a. Manuscript.
b. Scrolls.
c. Books.
d. Codex.
10. During Late Antiquity, cities:
a. Were expanded by increasing numbers of Roman senators and local elites.
b. Were decorated with works of art, including sculptures, frescoes, and mosaics.
c. Experienced major population declines as the rich and poor sought security in the countryside.
d. Along the Rhine were dominated by the Goths.
1. The most worrisome problem faced by the late Roman emperors was:
a. Army uprisings.
b. Financial problems.
c. Barbarians
d. Competitors for the crown.
2. Which East Germanic peoples crossed the Danube River into Roman territory in 376 AD and established
their own kingdom?
a. Ostrogoths.
b. Visigoths.
c. Vandals.
d. Franks.
3. The Battle of Adrianople in 378:
a. Resulted in a great victory for the Alemanni over the Burgundians.
b. Destroyed an Angle-Saxon-Hun coalition fighting against the Alemanni.
c. Resulted in a great victory of the Romans over the Visigoths.
d. Resulted in the annihilation of a Roman army under Emperor Valens by the Visigoths.
4. What crucial event took place in 410 AD?
a. Attila, king of the Huns, was born.
b. Leo the Great was appointed to be bishop of Rome.
c. Rome was pillaged by Alaric and the Visigoths.
d. Romulus Augustulus became emperor.
5. Which family united the Franks into a powerful polity in the lower Rhine River region?
a. Carolingians.
b. Merovingians.
c. Clovisites.
d. Burgundians.
6. During the fifth century AD, the eastern half of the Roman Empire began to be called the:
a. Principality of Latium named after the region around Rome.
b. Byzantine Empire, named after the city of Byzantium.
c. Theodosian Empire named after Theodosius II.
d. Empire of the Monophysites, named after the Nestorians.
7. In the mid-6th century AD, much of the Byzantine Empire’s population died from:
a. attacks by the Persians.
b. earthquakes.
c. bubonic plague.
d. starvation.
8. Which peoples posed a serious threat to the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century AD?
a. Slavs.
b. Germans.
c. Persians.
d. Arabs.
9. What became the foundation of every modern-day legal system in continental Europe?
a. Theodosius II’s Theodosian Code.
b. Justinian’s Body of Civil Law.
c. Valens’s Patria potestas.
d. Leo the Great’s Ecclesiastical Codes.
10. During the first half of the 6th century AD, which empress had enormous influence in Byzantium?
a. Belisarius.
b. Fatima.
c. Irene.
d. Theodora.
1. Which invention by Callimachus in the 7th century gave the Byzantines a significant military advantage?
a. Greek fire.
b. Roman fire.
c. Byzantine fire.
2. Iconoclasm meant:
a. A prohibition against worship.
b. An Islamic law forbidding artistic representations of the human form.
c. A ruling that forbade the veneration of icons in religious worship.
d. The reliance on icons as preached by the Monophysites.
3. Who were the Rus?
a. Scandinavian-Slavic peoples who settled the regions around Novgorod and Kiev.
b. Danish-Slavic peoples settled in the regions around Bosnia and Herzegovina.
c. Slavic-Ukrainian peoples settled along the frontiers of Poland.
d. Greek-Slavic peoples who settled in the regions around Corinth in Greece.
4. What was one major cause of warfare in Merovingian Gaul?
a. The Merovingians had to defend themselves against constant raiding by the Rus.
b. All property was divided equally among a king’s descendants, instigating fights for power.
c. The weakness of Clovis, the first ruler of the Merovingians.
d. Competition from the head of the Carolingian family, Odovacar.
5. What did the Visigoths do to secure their legitimacy in Spain?
a. They converted to Arian Christianity.
b. They subdued the Berbers in northwestern Spain.
c. They converted to Catholic Christianity.
d. They began to make sea voyages into the Atlantic.
6. One issue which divided Christians in the east and west was:
a. Arianism.
b. The Synod of Whitby in 664.
c. The nature of Christ.
d. The authority of the pope.
7. What was the Rule of St. Benedict?
a. A set of rules to help convert pagans.
b. A set of rules to organize a monk’s day.
c. A set of rules to use in sermons.
d. A set of rules to guide the Carolingians.
8. During Charlemagne’s reign, Alcuin of York revived the study of the seven liberal arts, which included:
a. Grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
b. History, grammar, art, music, archeology, religious studies, and architecture.
c. Architecture, music, history, painting, anthropology, grammar, and business.
d. Business, grammar, music, architecture, painting, public speaking, and algebra.
9. Why is the Treaty of Verdun in 843 considered important?
a. It created the foundations for the political divisions of modern Europe.
b. It ended the Carolingian rule of France and Germany.
c. It was used as a model treaty when the European Union was created in the 1990’s.
d. It inspired the Russians to establish their federation after 1989.
10. What three migratory populations turned the world of ninth- and tenth-century Europe upside down?
a. Rus, Ukrainians, and Byelorussians.
b. Rus, Scandinavians, and Moors.
c. Muslims, Vikings, and Magyars.
d. Germans, Lombards, and Visigoths.
1. Which abbey helped found more than 300 affiliated monasteries in Europe by the thirteenth century?
a. Templar monastery of Jerusalem.
b. Abbey of Nursia.
c. Cluny.
d. Monte Cassino.
2. Simony, a charge of corruption leveled against the church, consisted of:
a. Not maintaining sexual purity.
b. Picking family members to be church officials.
c. Buying and selling of key church positions.
d. Lending money at interest.
3. What was the Investiture Controversy?
a. A debate about the standards of clerical behavior at the Fourth Lateran Council.
b. A debate about the Cathars’ dualist conception of the world.
c. A conflict between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV about the investiture of bishops.
d. A conflict between the English and French about investiture that caused the Hundred Years’ War.
4. What was primogeniture?
a. The primacy of the pope’s authority was unquestioned.
b. The first-born sons of the nobility gained titles and property.
c. The primacy of defense defined the “just war.”
d. The prime method of art was manuscript illumination.
5. The Peace of God:
a. Declared that knights could not take weapons into church.
b. Declared that fighting had to be approved by an oath before God.
c. Allowed fighting only on certain days of the week.
d. Prohibited violence against women, the poor, and the clergy.
6. Anna Comnena, the daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus, wrote:
a. A letter to Pope Urban II calling on the West to support Byzantium against the Turks.
b. Believed westerners were brazen-faced, violent, money-grubbing, and immoderate men.
c. Learned Arabic so that she could communicate with the Muslim Knights Hospitaller.
d. Married the Muslim leader, Saladin.
7. The Albigensian Crusade in the first half of the thirteenth century:
a. Was fought against the Muslims in Spain.
b. Was fought against the Persians in the modern region of Syria.
c. Was fought in southern France against the Cathars.
d. Was fought in the Baltic region against the Prussians.
8. Towns and trade grew fastest in which region of northern Europe from 1000-1300?
a. England.
b. Germany.
c. Flanders.
d. Spain.
9. What three basic commodities did Christian merchants supply to Muslim traders?
a. Salt, timber, and silver.
b. Furs, timber, and slaves.
c. Alum, timber, and gold.
d. Fish, grain, and timber.
10. Which two styles of cathedral architecture developed in Europe from 1000-1300?
a. Romanesque and Gothic.
b. Postmodern and Premodern.
c. Romanesque and Baltic.
d. Gothic and Renaissance.
1. What was the most prominent cause for famine in the early 14th century?
a. The Little Ice Age had a dramatic effect on climate and the length of the growing season.
b. Invasions by the Magyars, Huns, and Vikings.
c. Piracy in the Mediterranean cut off food-supply ships from the Middle East.
d. Locusts and various plant diseases decimated the crop harvests in Western Europe.
2. Which of the following is not true about the plague in the fourteenth century?
a. It was carried by fleas.
b. Anti-Semitism increased as people looked for scapegoats to blame for the plague.
c. Once it went away, it never returned.
d. Some people survived the plague.
3. Two major regions for trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were the:
a. Baltic and Black Seas.
b. Black and Mediterranean Seas.
c. Baltic and Balkan coasts.
d. Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.
4. The Hundred Years’ War from 1337-1453 was fought between the kings of:
a. Germany and Poland.
b. England and France.
c. Italy and Turkey.
d. Turkey and France.
5. Deliberately inflicted violence and terror on the civilian populations in the Hundred Years’ War was called:
a. Chivalry.
b. Feudalism.
c. Trebuchets.
d. Chevauchées.
6. The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was important because:
a. It destroyed the English nobility.
b. It was based on the peasants’ resentment of taxes.
c. It copied the demands of the French Jacquerie rebellion.
d. It was the first large-scale rebellion of commoners demanding greater participation in political life.
7. The Great Schism in the Church from 1378-1417 began when:
a. Pope Urban VI moved to Avignon to avoid expulsion from the Church because of his corruption.
b. Pope Clement V moved the papacy to Avignon at the request of King Philip IV.
c. The French pope and the Roman pope excommunicated each other in a showdown for power.
d. French Catholics were upset that the Pope was always Italian.
8. The theory of conciliarism argued that:
a. The Pope was the sole authority in the Church.
b. Ultimate Church authority derived from councils consisting of high officials and the pope.
c. The number of sacraments in the Church should be set at two.
d. Pope Martin V should take the advice of his counselors and move back to Avignon.
9. Byzantine power and older Muslim dynasties had succumbed by the 15th century to the:
a. Slavs.
b. Anglo-Saxons.
c. Ottoman Turks.
d. Germans.
10. The Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defended his lands in the mid-13th century from the:
a. Mongols.
b. Huns and Germans.
c. Turks and Arabs.
d. Swedes, Lithuanians, and Germans.
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But SymmetricalCock may have been laughing because there's a dispute whether it was Christ Constantine had a vision of or the Sun god Apollo. Some feel he said "Christ", as a means to unit and consolidate power, which makes sense.
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