Download Chapter 12 Quiz Form A 1. Hagia Sophia was A) the wife of

Chapter 12 Quiz Form A
1. Hagia Sophia was
A) the wife of Justinian.
B) the legal foundation for Justinian’s code of laws.
C) a magnificent domed church in Constantinople.
D) the arena in Constantinople where chariot races were
held.
E) the narrow strait dividing Europe from Asia at
Constantinople.
2. Justinian's most important and long-lasting political
achievement was
A) his reconquest of the western half of the Roman
empire.
B) his democratic reforms.
C) his religious compromise between the Roman
Catholic and the Greek Orthodox churches.
D) his codification of Roman law.
E) his establishment of a lasting peace with the Islamic
world.
C) Bulgars.
D) Ottoman Turks.
E) Mongols.
4. Saints Methodius and Cyril
A) converted the Slavs to Roman Catholicism.
B) invented the Cyrillic alphabet.
C) died while trying to convert the Mongols.
D) were the first “pillar saints.”
E) led the Fourth Crusade.
5. According to Procopius, two sixth century Christian
monks undertook an elaborate smuggling operation to
provide Byzantium with the expertise to produce
A) steel.
B) iron.
C) ceramics.
D) gun powder.
E) silk.
3. In a disaster from which the Byzantine Empire never
really recovered, Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by
A) Christian Crusaders.
B) Saljuk Turks.
Chapter 12 Quiz Form B
1. Byzantium’s major advantage was
A) its position as the greatest trading center of the
Greek world.
B) its huge army.
C) its strategic position on a narrow strait between
Europe and Asia
D) its magnificent library which contained the cultural
treasures of the Hellenistic world.
E) its status as the most populous city in the
Mediterranean basin.
2. The mixture of secular and religious authority which
marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the
Byzantine emperors is known as
A) Byzantion.
B) caesaropapism.
C) corpus iuris civilis.
D) secularism.
E) divine right rule.
3. The theme system
A) weakened the peasantry by taking peasant land
away.
B) made land available to the peasants in return for
military service.
C) led to the break between the Roman Catholic and
Greek Orthodox churches.
D) limited the religious authority of the Byzantine
emperors.
E) was the foundation of the Byzantine educational
structure.
4. The most important political feature of the Byzantine
state was
A) its docile acceptance of Rome’s superiority.
B) its republican governmental structure that resembled
early Rome.
C) its tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor.
D) its division of power under the tetrarchs.
E) its reliance on Achaemenid ruling principles.
5. By the 16th century, Russians had begun to think of
Moscow as
A) the trading center of Eastern Europe.
B) the most powerful military power in the world.
C) the third Rome.
D) the eastern outpost of Roman Catholicism.
E) the new Athens.