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Topic 8: The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500–900

Multiple Choice Quiz

Multiple Choice Quiz

This activity contains 24 questions.

	Charlemagne and his supporters believed his coronation as emperor in 800 A.D. signified the revival of   King David's covenant with Yahweh. the Roman Empire in the west. the Babylonian Captivity. Greek tradition. Athenian democracy.

	While the majority of Romans had become Orthodox Christians in late antiquity, the Ostrogoths were   Manicheans. Moors. Arians. Druids. pagans.

	Which of the following peoples succeeded the Ostrogoths as masters of Italy?   Visigoths Lombards Avars Anglo-Saxons Vandals

	Which of the following peoples succeeded the Visigoths as masters of Spain?   Magyars Muslims Jews Swabians Lombards

	The Anglo-Saxons who came to Britain   enslaved or drove the natives into Wales and carved out their own small kingdoms. were a military elite. quickly coalesced their tribes into a united kingdom. joined the Gallo-Frankish alliance for protection. soon became involved in inter-tribal warfare that permitted the Franks to replace them as rulers.

	Which of the following were responsible for the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity?   Cyril and Methodius Benedict of Nursia Augustine of Hippo the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope Irish monks and the papal missionary, Augustine

	Although Clovis ruled the Franks as king,   the real authority was the Byzantine emperor. real power rested in the Frankish tribal council. he worked closely with the existing Gallo-Roman aristocracy to consolidate his power. he did not convert to Christianity. he was nothing more than a Roman general.

	Which of the following was not a fundamental change that transformed rural society during the early Middle Ages?   Urban growth was assured by the advance of the barbarians. Slavery became something akin to sharecropping. Roman slavery virtually disappeared. Christianity spread throughout the rural world. The household emerged as the primary unit of social and economic organization.

	Which of the following was not characteristic of the early medieval peasantry?   Peasants were subject to the private justice of their lords. There were no agricultural innovations in the agricultural system. They became Christianized. Returns for peasant agriculture were lower than for ancient, slave-based agriculture. Life centered on the house, village, and field.

	In Germanic society, the elite owed its elevated status to   an inability on the part of the Romans to curb their growing power and prestige. a combination of inherited status and wealth perpetuated through military command. their ability to manipulate grain prices and export trade. their position in the church. royal appointment by the existing aristocracy.

	Which of the following impeded the fusion of the Germanic and Roman aristocracies in Spain and Italy?   dissension among the Germanic military commanders and the Roman provincials rival peasant gangs terrorizing the countryside religious differences separating Arians and Orthodox Christians the presence of Muslims long-standing disputes between the lords and vassals

	In the late sixth century, the northern Frankish aristocracy found its own religious identity and legitimacy in   its support for alternatives to the papacy. a strict division between church and state. the rapid dissemination of the Cistercian order. the Irish monasticism spread by Saint Columbanus. the careful maintenance of an Arian episcopacy.

	Pippin became king of the Franks as a result of   his descent from the Merovingian family. acclamation by Frankish aristocrats. the murder of his father, Charles. his destruction of the Lombard state in Italy. close cooperation with the papacy and a papal declaration in his favor.

	Which of the following was not one of Charlemagne's accomplishments?   He conquered almost all of the neighboring Germanic kingdoms. He created a centralized state with a well-formed bureaucracy. He reformed education. He sought to reform the Carolingian church. He was a major patron of the arts.

	To reform and educate his clergy, Charlemagne   cultivated the Arian traditions of Frankish Christianity. imported leading educational and religious authorities from Muscovy. relied on his Frankish intellectuals alone. excluded women from education. established a palace school and supported schools in great monasteries.

	Cyril and Methodius   laid the basis for a Slavic church and began a tradition of Slavic literacy. developed a standard form of Slavic dress, style, and morality. rallied the Slavic peoples to resist Muslim subjugation. were instrumental in extending Greek cultural traditions into the Arabic world. unified northern and southern Slavs.

	The last surviving member of what Arab dynasty established a caliphate in Spain?   Syrian Abbasid Aghlabid Umayyad Fatimid

	Among the successor kingdoms to the Roman Empire, none was more powerful militarily than the kingdom of   the Irish. the Goths. the Franks. the Anglo-Saxons. the Lombards.

	The Carolingian Renaissance signaled a revival in interest in   ancient warfare. cultural traditions of the Far East. ancient Greek and Latin literature. the intensive study of Sanskrit. the embrace of pagan religious traditions.

	With the disintegration of the Carolingian order, people began to seek protection from   the Holy Roman Church. local aristocrats. various religious orders. Otto III. the Islamic caliphate.

	What Saxon ruler was crowned emperor in 962?   Frederick Hohenstaufen Henry the Fowler Otto the Great Conrad of Franconia Pepin the Short

	By 600, ___________ kings ruled over most of the Spanish peninsula.   Frankish Anglo Carolingian Visigoth Saxon

	Between 568 and 774, this Germanic tribe controlled most of northern and central Italy.   Ostrogoths Saxons Lombards Visigoths Venetians

	The most basic unit of Germanic society was the   bergermeister. diocese. bishopric. wergild. clan.

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