Strayer Ch.10: Worlds of Christendom

Question 1

Compared to other civilizations, Europe was _________, and had to _________.

Accepted Answer

underdeveloped, catch up

Question 2

What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

Accepted Answer

Constantinople

Question 3

What group of people did the Europeans NOT borrow culture from during their "catching up"?

Accepted Answer

Japanese

Question 4

Which of these towns was a prosperous trading area in Italy?

Accepted Answer

Venice

Question 5

What two religions had a major "rift" between them in Christendom?

Accepted Answer

Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism

Question 6

Each group emerged as the dominant peoples of Western Europe except for...

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 7

Which of the following cities were targets of the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

Constantinople and Jerusalem

Question 8

What area never regained the political unity it had under Roman rule?

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 9

Which of these pertains ONLY to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and not Roman Catholicism?

Accepted Answer

Leavened Bread

Question 10

What was the religion that Prince Vladimir of Kiev decided on for his empire?

Accepted Answer

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Question 11

Which of these religions had more gender equality than the others?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 12

"Greek fire" was a military innovation of what civilization?

Accepted Answer

Byzantine Empire

Question 13

Attacks from all of these groups resulted in the Byzantine Empire shrinking except for...

Accepted Answer

The Chinese Imperial Army

Question 14

"Within these new [European] kingdoms, a... decentralized society... known as _____ emerged..."

Accepted Answer

feudalism

Question 15

What was the notion that was the driving force of the crusades?

Accepted Answer

"God wills it!"

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