history test #2 quizzes

Who was the powerful man who became the Frankish king in 768?

Which Roman emperor divided Rome into two parts (east and west) with each part containing two prefectures?

Which pope strengthened the power of the papacy and Roman Catholic Ch. by taking control of Rome & the surrounding area

What was a reason for the schism that separated the Christian church into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox?

From 725 to the 900s much of Spain was ruled by which religious group?

This group came from Scandinavia in the ninth century and attacked villages and towns throughout Western Europe.

In China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and produced most of the candidates for civil service.

Acts of worship that every Muslim must perform; this includes belief, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage.

born in the 1330s & launched a program of conquest when he gained power in 1369, conquered the east of the Caspian Sea

Which Emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire?

A period of about 200 years during which the so-called good emperors were in power and Rome had peace and prosperity.

Which of the following religions was NOT spread along the Silk Road?

Why was southeast Asia never unified under a single government?

In Roman justice crime like murder was an offense against society or the state. In Germanic law the offense was:

Who did Rome fight in the Punic Wars?

Women in feudal Europe were expected to:

In 1368 the Mongol dynasty fell and this new dynasty was set up.

Which of the following is thought to be a reason for the decline and fall of the Roman empire?

What was the greatest gift that a lord could give a vassal?

Which Roman emperor issued the Edict of Milan which granted religious freedom to Christians within the Roman empire?

Non-Muslims considered to be equal to Muslims in the Islamic world.

Who developed an alphabet so that he could create a Christian Bible and liturgy in the Slavic language?

Who is considered the first emperor of Rome?

In medieval Europe, a person was legally required to stay on land and do labor pay rent and be in the landowners control

Which of the following is NOT something that was considered part of the golden age of Chinese art and literature.

In Mid Age, the idea of civ. behavior dev. among nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold

Which of the following people was considered the best doctor of his day in tenth century Baghdad?

trade assoc. was an alliance of 100+ north European trade cities that banded together for trade prot. & eco. opportunity

Which Roman emperor began persecuting Christians?

13th cent England the rep gov that had 2 knights from each county 2 ppl from a town, & nobles & bishops through England

Who did Augustus fail to defeat leading to him being devastated to learn that Rome's power was not unlimited?

Japanese warriors who were similar to the knights of medieval Europe.

What led to the growth of cities in the Middle Ages?

Which language became both the official and common language of the Byzantine Empire?

What is considered to be Justinian's most important contribution?

What was the Byzantine Empire's most lucrative good?

Muslims are strongly encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Makkah at some point.  What is this pilgrimage called?

The strict code by which Japanese samurai were supposed to live.

When the administrative structure of the empire in the west collapsed it was replaced by which group of people?

Early Arabs were:

The states of Southeast Asia were divided into which two groups?

This is considered one of the finest examples of an Islamic palace.  It is located in Grenada, Spain.

Means "striving in the way of God", Muslim's duty to work for the triumph of Islam in the world and within themselves.

polit. & soc. order grew during Mid. Age royal gov.s weren’t able to defend the ppl; nobles gave protection & got land

What island was fought over during the First Punic War?

In Roman social structure, the dominant male of the household, including sons and their wives and children, unmarried

Which is the majority group in the Muslim world?

Why did the central government lose power and influence during the Nara period?

What was the religion of the Byzantine Empire?

Which religion took over formerly Hindu areas of India in the years of the 900 and 1000s?

This dynasty was considered to set the standard for the dynasties that followed.

  Charles the Great

Who was ultimately victorious after all three Punic Wars?

Arab expansion into Europe came to a halt in 732 when Arab forces were stopped by Charles Martel's army in this battle.

The successors of Muhammad as spiritual and temporal leaders of the Muslims were known as:

What factor contributed to Japanese belief that they had a separate destiny from the ppl on the main continent of Asia

The official state religion of Rome was:

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the fall of the Mongol Dynasty?

What was the main type of food that people ate in medieval Europe?

gov. that devlp. in England based on court decisions & on customs & usage not written codes; it replaced law that varied

During the later Tang dynasty period countless temples and monasteries from this religion were destroyed.

The "great Charter" of rights, which King John was forced to sign by the English nobles at Runnymede in 1215.

Which of the kingdoms of Korea gained control over the peninsula with the support of Tang China?

What language was spoken in the Roman Empire?

Which of the following did NOT account for the growth in population during High Middle Ages?

ruled from 960-1279.  a period of prosperity and cultural achievement.  They were eventually overthrown by the Mongols.

dynasty ruled 618-907, created a stable eco by giving land to peasants & breaking up big estates

This was a set of laws on public display in Rome that established and protected rights for both patricians and plebeians

This person unified the Mongols in the 1100s.

Islamic art doesn't represent people because a Hadith warns against imitating God by creating pictures of living beings.

These three people formed the First Triumvirate.

What is the holy book of Islam called?

Who is the prophet of Islam?

Which of the following cities was NOT a center of cultural, administrative, and economic activity in the Islamic world?

Why was education important to Charlemagne?

Which of the following did the Romans build with their engineering skills?

Which monk wrote a set of rules which established the basic form of monastic life in the western Christian church?

According to the map on page 180 where had Christianity spread by 325 AD/CE?

Which group of Jews favored overthrowing Roman rule?

The development of Rome was most influenced by this group who were located north of Rome.

Which group united the Malaysian archipelago into a single rule in the late 1200s?

Which of the following contributed to unrest in Rome?

Who succeeded Muhammad after his death?

Which ruler converted to Christianity during battle and later united the Franks as a people?