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CHAPTER 7—LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MEDIEVAL
WORLD
ESSAY
1. How did Diocletian and Constantine alter the Roman Empire, and with what long-term consequences?
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2. What is the doctrine of Petrine supremacy and what are its implications for the history of the early
Christian church? How is the doctrine of Petrine supremacy related to the problem of the relationship
between church and state?
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3. What role did monks and nuns play in early medieval society? What does the author mean when he
says that "monks became the new heroes of Christian civilization"?
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4. What contributions did the Germanic peoples make to the new political, economic, and social
conditions of early European civilization?
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5. How would you define the term "Late Antiquity" with regard to intellectual, social, and political
changes experienced throughout what we now call Europe?
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6. In what ways were the teachings of Islam similar to Christianity? How were they different?
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7. Compare the intellectual life of the Roman Empire during its heyday to the intellectual life of Christian
Europe, both eastern and western, up through the seventh century C.E.
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8. What were Justinian's major goals and how did he try to achieve them? How successful was he in
actually achieving those goals?
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9. Discuss the possible religious and non-religious reasons for the rapid spread of Islam from Arabia to
Spain in the West and across the Persian Empire in the east.
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10. What were the major contributions of Islam to Western Civilization? Be specific.
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11. In what ways were the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations of the east different from the civilization
developing in western Europe? In what ways were they the same?
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12. Were the societies of the Abbasid and Umayyad caliphates part of Western Civilization, or were they
simply influential yet distinct?
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IDENTIFICATIONS
1. Edict of Milan
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2. Theodosius
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3. Huns
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5. Romulus Augustulus
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6. Theodoric
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7. Vandals
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8. Odoacer
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9. Franks
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10. Clovis
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12. wergeld
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14. heresy
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15. diocese
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17. Athanasius
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18. Arianism
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26. monasticism
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27. St. Patrick
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30. Cassiodorus
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33. Justinian
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34. Theodora
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36. Procopius
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39. icons/iconoclastic
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40. Muhammad
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41. Arabia
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42. Qur'an
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43. Allah
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45. Hegira
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46. Shari'a
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47. jihad
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48. caliph
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49. Umayyads
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
3. The political, economic, and social policies of the restored empire under Diocletian and Constantine
a. meant the destruction of the civil and military bureaucracies.
b. renewed the support of the Roman peasants and lower classes for the Empire.
c. led to the economic rejuvenation of the Empire.
d. were based on coercion and the loss of individual freedom.
e. led to the abandonment of the Eastern Mediterranean with a renewed focus upon Italy.
ANS: D REF: p. 182
10. In the late fourth century, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes, were pushed into the Balkans
region of the Eastern Roman Empire because of pressure from the
a. Byzantines.
b. Vikings.
c. Avars.
d. Arians.
e. Huns.
ANS: E REF: p. 183
11. In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by
a. Constantine.
b. Clovis.
c. Alaric.
d. Odoacer.
e. Aetius.
ANS: D REF: p. 186
12. Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king who took control of Italy, was determined to
a. destroy Roman civilization and culture forever.
b. destroy the Jews in Italy.
c. sack the Byzantine Empire and depose the pope.
d. maintain Roman customs and practices in Italy.
e. make German the official and only language.
ANS: D REF: p. 188
14. The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first monarchic, Frankish defender of the Catholic faith
was
a. Thorvig.
b. Conan.
c. Hagar.
d. Clovis.
e. Charles Martel.
ANS: D REF: p. 189
15. The Frankish palace official, Charles Martel, successfully defended the civilization of the new western
European kingdoms in 732 by
a. destroying the Visigoths.
b. pushing the Burgundians back across the Rhone river.
c. defeating Muslim armies in 732.
d. sacking Rome.
e. ending the Merovingian dynasty and making himself king.
ANS: C REF: p. 189
20. The pope who supposedly caused Attila and the Huns to turn away from Rome was
a. Leo I.
b. Gregory the Great.
c. John Paul II.
d. Augustine III.
e. Jerome the Great.
ANS: A REF: p. 194 MSC: *new
22. The title "Vicars of Christ" has traditionally been given to the
a. Bishops of Rome.
b. Archbishops of Alexandria.
c. Patriarchs of Jerusalem.
d. Archbishops of Antioch.
e. Patriarchs of Constantinople.
ANS: A REF: p. 193
26. The holy man who created the first community of monks in Egypt and laid the foundations for the
monastic movement was
a. Saint Martin.
b. Saint Augustine.
c. Saint Jerome.
d. Saint Anthony.
e. Saint Aquinas.
ANS: D REF: p. 195
27. The basic rule for western monastic living was developed by
a. Benedict.
b. Pachomius.
c. Jerome.
d. Ambrose.
e. Basil.
ANS: A REF: p. 196
29. The "Apostle to the Germans" and the most famous churchman in Europe in the eighth century was
a. Gregory the Great.
b. Augustine.
c. Jerome.
d. Benedict.
e. Boniface.
ANS: E REF: p. 198
30. In 597, Pope Gregory the Great sent the monk, ____, to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons.
a. Anthony.
b. Leo.
c. Constantius.
d. Augustine.
e. Ambrose.
ANS: D REF: p. 198 MSC: *new
31. Pope Gregory the Great was responsible for all of the following except
a. creating the Papal States.
b. recognizing the Byzantine emperor as the rightful ruler of Italy.
c. supporting the work of Christian missionaries in England.
d. writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
e. becoming Bishop of Rome.
ANS: D REF: p. 195 | p. 201
32. The primary instrument of Pope Gregory for converting the Germanic peoples of Europe was
a. the imperial army.
b. monasticism.
c. bribery.
d. his oratory.
e. the eastern Empire.
ANS: B REF: p. 195
33. Irish monasticism from the sixth through eighth centuries tended to be highly
a. ascetic.
b. isolationist.
c. scornful of pagan practices.
d. scornful of classical education.
e. anti-monastic.
ANS: A REF: p. 197
34. The greatest difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity was in
a. Irish church organization, giving Irish abbots more power than bishops.
b. differing interpretations of the Nicene Creed.
c. disputes over the powers of deacons.
d. conflicting views on the power of the Papal Curia.
e. the divinity of Jesus.
ANS: A REF: p. 197
35. One of the greatest nuns of the seventh-century, and founder of the Whitby monastery was
a. St. Catherine.
b. St. Joan.
c. St. Hilda.
d. St. Jesmine.
e. St. Theodora.
ANS: C REF: p. 199
36. The great Christian scholar of late antiquity, Cassiodorus, divided the seven liberal arts into the trivium
and quadrivium. According to Cassiodorus, the trivium includes
a. grammar, rhetoric, and music.
b. geometry, music, and astronomy.
c. grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic or logic.
d. arithmetic, logic, and astronomy.
e. history, literature, and mathematics.
ANS: C REF: p. 201
39. The Corpus Iuris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) compiled under Justinian
a. was not immediately adopted by the Byzantine Empire.
b. was the last Byzantine contribution to the west to be written in Latin.
c. marked a turning away from Roman law.
d. served to undermine economic prosperity in the empire.
e. was the first literary work to be written entirely in Greek.
ANS: B REF: p. 201
40. In the year 532, Justinian almost fled the capital because of
a. a plague.
b. an invasion.
c. a vision from heaven.
d. his plan to run off with the palace funds.
e. the Nika riots.
ANS: E REF: p. 203-204
42. The controversy of 730 that set the Latin and Greek Orthodox Christians apart was over
a. the official use of the Greek language in the Byzantine Empire.
b. the election of the pope.
c. iconoclasm, or the destruction of icons.
d. the divinity of the Trinity.
e. whether Muhammad was a true prophet of God.
ANS: C REF: p. 206
43. The Byzantine emperor who initiated the iconoclastic controversy in 725 was
a. Leo III
b. Alexis I Comnenus.
c. Irene.
d. Heraclius.
e. Justinian.
ANS: A REF: p. 206
45. The cardinal principle of the Islamic faith is that there is only God and his prophet is
a. Gabriel.
b. Jesus.
c. Moses.
d. Muhammad.
e. Abraham.
ANS: D REF: p. 208
47. Which of the following would not be a similarity between Christianity and Islam?
a. Each of the faiths had a holy book.
b. Both Muhammad and Jesus considered themselves to be divine.
c. Both religions were monotheistic.
d. Both religions had as part of their scriptures divine revelation.
e. Both religions envisioned heaven or paradise for believers.
ANS: B REF: p. 208-209
49. Muslim societies abide by a strict code of law, much of it derived from the holy book Qur'an, and
regulating all aspects of Muslim life. This law code is called
a. Shari'a.
b. jihad.
c. hajj.
d. Ramadan.
e. Caliphite.
ANS: A REF: p. 208
50. The Muslim dynasty that assumed power after the assassination of Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, and
moved the capital to Damascus was the
a. Abbasid.
b. Cordobaid.
c. Sunnite.
d. Umayyad.
e. Caliphite.
ANS: D REF: p. 209-210
TRUE/FALSE
1. Constantine declared toleration for Christians but did not make Christianity the official Roman
religion.
2. By 395, the western and eastern parts of the Roman Empire became virtually two independent states.
3. By the second half of the fourth century, German tribes, known as "federates," were incorporated into
the Roman army.
4. In 711, Byzantine armies from Constantinople destroyed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.
5. Saint Augustine wrote that in marriage, men and women should reject celibacy and that sex should be
enjoyed without regard for purpose.
ANS: F REF: p. 192
6. At the synod of Whitby in 664, the English church accepted the Irish practices rather than the Roman.
7. The author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People was the monk known as the Venerable
Bede.
8. Beginning with Justinian, the center of the Byzantine presence in Italy was Rome.
10. In Islam, Jihad has been defined as "holy war" but a more accurate description is "striving in the way
of the Lord."
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