AP Middle Ages and Islam Test Review

During the Middle Ages the ____ had considerable political power.

Which institution served as the main unifying force of medieval Western Europe?

What aided the Byzantines to withstand the Muslim siege of Constantinople in 717?

In Western Europe, feudalism developed after the

What was the impact of the Seljuk conquest of Baghdad on the Abbasid Empire?

In comparison to Byzantium, the Latin West before 1000 C.E.

The Byzantine Corpus Juris Civilis was important in the late 11th century because it

Umayyad Spain developed a distinctive Islamic culture because of

The Byzantine approach to foreigners was

Baghdad in the 13th century...

How was the spread of Christianity in W. Europe similar to the spread of Buddhism in China?

The Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks in the year

Maniorialism was what type of system?

How did the Byzantines differ from their western counterparts?

All of the following are pillars of the Islamic faith EXCEPT

In the long term, the crusading movement by Western Europeans

__ caused the split btwn the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church

The collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate was brought about by

As migrations occurred, such as the spread of Arabs, the migrating peoples tended to

The later Byzantine Empire was culturally most associated with which civilization?

Which of the following civilizations gave the least amount of power to its rulers: 1000–1300?

After the 7th century, Byzantine women

The use of camels by Arab and Berber traders to travel across the Sahara shows that

This picture is an example of what form of artwork widely used by the Islamic empire?

In its cultural interaction with the Byzantine Empire, Kievan Russia

"No tax shall be imposed on our kingdom..." This is from the

What was the nature of pre-Islamic bedouin religion?

The name normally given to the form of Christianity that emerged in the Byzantine Empire was

One of the false assumptions about Muslim rule over foreign lands is

After Muhammad's death, the Muslim community began to be ruled by a caliph, who was

Which of the following is true about both Byzantine Empire and China from 900-1450?

The transfer of gunpowder to Western Europe was brought about chiefly as a result of the

The lord's land, house, or estate

The religious controversy over the use of religious images in worship in the 8th c. was

The use of guilds in European cities and towns was primarily for the purpose of

What was Muhammad's teaching w/ respect to revelations of other monotheistic religions?

Which of the following buildings is one of the best examples of early Christian architecture?

Loyalty

What was NOT a reason for the early expansion of Islam beyond Arabia?

The Sufi

The Byzantine Empire, as a result of the Islamic Invasions in the 7th and 8th centuries, 

Baghdad flourished for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Why is the Abbasid rule considered a "golden age"?

Mecca is an important city because it

Feudalism was what type of system?

As the Caliphates came to power, they were able to increase trade using networks that spanned

How did the followers of Eastern Orthodoxy differ from Roman Catholics?

How did contact w/ the Muslim world affect the African slave trade?

The office of the political and religious successor of Muhammad was called

The Capital of the Western Roman Empire was located in

Which is most accurate about the impact of Islam on sub-Saharan Africa?

What was the primary characteristic of feudal society in medieval Europe?

The beliefs and practices of Islam were based on interactions with all of the following EXCEPT

What was the principle advantage of the Islamic concept of the umma?

The name given to the formal split of the Christian Church in 1054 CE was called

What religion was prominently diffused along the trans-Saharan trade routes?

What is the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages?

How did Islam and Hinduism differ?

Between 800-1200, feudalism was the governmental form shared by which of the following regions?

What accurately characterizes Islamic culture during the 10th-13th centuries?

"No tax shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom" This is from:

___ was evidence of the expansion and growth of European civilization during High Middle Ages.

Being the lord's loyal servant

Women's roles ___ upon the creation of the Islamic empire of the Umayyad & Abbasid.

__ is Europeans building on technology rather than borrowing technologies from civilizations

All of the following are reasons for the decline of urban areas from 600-1450 EXCEPT

Missionaries Cyril & Methodius connected to the Balkans, E. Europe, & Russia by bringing common

Connecting to the larger community of Muslims (the umma) is based on an individual's

Land

Which of the following is most correctly seen as a direct descendant of the Roman Empire?

The Byzantine empires avoided political fragmentation like Medieval Europe because they

The __ was W. Europe's largest landowner, represented God's will, & was main source of learning

"I charge the caliph not to close his doors to Muslims & allow the strong to devour the weak."

Under the leadership of the caliphs, expansion included all of the following EXCEPT

The capital of the Byzantine Empire and its commercial center was located at

What term emerged during the early Umayyad Caliphate?

Political & theological faction w/in Islam recognizing only Ali & family of Muhammad as rulers

Being surrounded by your enemy

After Meccan leaders felt threatened by his popularity, Muhammad fled Meccca.  This was the

A major goal of the Catholic Church during the Crusades was to

Like Christians, Muslims profess all of the following beliefs EXCEPT