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Europe 600-1450 Multiple Choice
Choose the answer that is best for the question
___1. Which of the following is an accurate depiction of the experiences of women in Christendom in
the period 600 to 1450?
A. Byzantine women continue to have the same freedoms that they had experienced in the Roman
empire
B. Arranged marriages disappeared as courtly love became valued in Western European culture
C. The Catholic Church refused to allow women to enter the monastic life after reaching
childbearing age
D. Noblewomen in particular were closely monitored in terms of behavior and personal
relationships, and the majority of women were expected to marry
___2. The investiture controversy primarily concerned conflicts?
A. Between the Eastern and Western churches regarding territorial rights
B. Between the Pope and the patriarch of Constantinople over the sacking of Constantinople in the
4th Crusade
C. Between the Pope and the Kings of Western Europe over who had the authority to appoint
bishops
D. Between the Byzantine Emperor and the Kings of Western Europe over territorial boundaries
___3. The Orthodox Church and the Latin Church
A. Formally split over doctrinal disputes in the 11th century but still united to fight together in the
Crusades
B. Formally split at the same time that the Roman empire split into the Byzantine Empire and
feudal Europe
C. Met in a series of Council meetings to decide what parts of Europe would be orthodox and what
parts would be Catholic in order to avoid competition
D. worked closely with the Muslim Empire to fight against the Mongol invasions of the 13th
century
___4. The vassal relationship
A.
B.
C.
D.
Was a complex system of sworn military alliances in exchange for fiefs
Required a night to swear allegiance to a lord or keying in return for money and titles
Never became a central part of the feudal system and did not last beyond the 11th century
Required lords to send their eldest sons to the courts of the Kings for military service
___5. Manor life
A. Was similar to the labor systems of the Roman Empire in that free laborers received land in
exchange for their service
B. created a localized, basic, and self-sufficient agricultural economy that kept serfs protected
C. was based on a system of free labor in exchange for protection and allow peasants to move
freely between the town and the Manor
D. was a way of life that first began in the Byzantine Empire and then spread to Western Europe
___6. The Byzantine Empire
A.
B.
C.
D.
was cut off from trading opportunities with the silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade network
became a feudal and agricultural society like its European neighbors to the west
built on the Roman imperial model but followed Greek cultural and religious traditions
maintained a strong political and military presence in the region until the time of the Ottomans
___7. The causes of the Crusades included all of the following EXCEPT
A. the conquest of Byzantine lands by Muslim empires
B. Muslim anger over the Norman conquest of Sicily and the defeat of the Muslims at the Battle of
Tours
C. the belief that Muslim rulers were defiling the holy land
D. the economic motives of burgeoning trading cities like Venice to gain more ports
___8. Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire differed politically because
A. Western Europe maintained more of the political traditions of the Roman Empire
B. the Byzantine Empire maintained more of the political traditions of the Germanic peoples
C. the Byzantine Empire gave political and religious authority to a patriarch while Western Europe
gave it to the Pope
D. the Byzantine Empire maintained a centralized government while Western Europe broke apart
into localized political entities
___9. Economics in Western Europe changed in the later medieval period by
A. allowing for more social mobility because of the end of serfdom and the rise of urban job
opportunities
B. allowing women to own property for the first time and participate in long-distance trade
C. creating one center of sea trade around the Baltic Sea under the control of the Hanseatic League
D. gaining control of the Indian Ocean trade network by sending out Viking explorers
___10. Kievan and Russia
A. adopted the Manor system from the Byzantine Empire and the feudal system from Western
Europe
B. based its economic wealth on trade and traded extensively with the Byzantine Empire
C. Concord Muslim territories around the Baltic Sea to extend its regional control
D. accepted Roman Catholicism as the faith of the region and welcomes Catholic missionaries
___11. One of Byzantine Emperor Justinian's biggest accomplishments was
A.
B.
C.
D.
the building of Hagia Sophia
codification of 1000 years of Roman legal tradition in the Corpus Juris Civilis
the creation of the Eastern Orthodox Church
the creation of a large bureaucratic system with which to run the Byzantine Empire
___12. Cyril and Methodius are significant in world history because they
A.
B.
C.
D.
helped bring silk technology to the Byzantine Empire
traveled the complete stretch of the silk Road
travel to Roman influence musical styles such as Gregorian chants
traveled to Moravia, where they helped introduce a new writing system to the Slavic peoples
known as Cyrillic
___13. Vikings were similar to Arabs in that both
A.
B.
C.
D.
were Muslim
came from very arid territories
looked Western Europe is an area for expansion
rated and traded, Vikings using ships and Arabs using horses and camels
___14. Vladimir I, ruler of Kievan Russia, imposed the following religion on his subjects
A.
B.
C.
D.
Islam
Judaism
Orthodox Christianity
Roman Christianity
___15. The impact of the Crusades included all of the following EXCEPT
A.
B.
C.
D.
the sanctioning of annulments and remarriage
the discovery of Greek philosophical works
the making of pasta
the manufacture of soap