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Byzantine Islam Empire in East ASia Game design by Mary Catherine McGillvray India Chritianity in Western Europe Final Jeopardy! Byzantine Islam Empire in East Asia India Chritianity in Western Europe $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Which of the following statements about Constantinople is not true? a. It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman Empire. b. It was constructed by Constantine. c. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on the Sasanid Empire in Persia. d. It was built because the eastern half was the wealthier and more productive part of the empire. e. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on Germanic tribes on the Danube. Constantinople withstood sieges in 674–678 and 717–718 by a. the Sasanids. b. the Gauls. c. the Russians. d. the Greeks. e. Arabic forces. In the year 962, Otto of Saxony a. accepted the sovereignty of the Byzantine emperors. b. created a written alphabet for the Slavic people. c. expanded the scope of Byzantine influence by translating Justinian’s code into German. d. claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Roman Empire. e. invaded and sacked Constantinople. From the sixth century on, the official language of Constantinople was a. Latin. b. Turkish. c. Aramaic. d. Greek. e. French. Which of the following describes education in Byzantium? a. Byzantium fell far short of the standards set in the western half of the empire. b. Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society. c. Byzantium struggled because of the lack of a written language. d. Only the members of the central court could read and write. e. Byzantium made tremendous strides after its conquest of the Arabic world. After the death of Muhammad, political leadership fell to a caliph by the name of… The capital of the Abbasid Empire was a. Damascus. b. Istanbul. c. Mecca. d. Cordoba. e. Baghdad. During the last two-hundred years of the Abbasid Empire, it fell under the control of the a. Byzantine Empire. b. Ottoman Turkish Empire. c. Sasanids. d. Saljuq Turks. e. Holy Roman Empire. Islamic banks honored letters of credit, which could be drawn on the parent bank, known as a. sakks. b. gadis. c. ka’ba. d. sufis. e. sunnis. In an effort to recruit learned students, Islamic leaders often financially supported institutions of higher learning called a. madrasas. b. sufis. c. dar al-Islam. d. umma. e. qadis. The Song dynasty was substantially weakened by Song Taizu’s decision to a. invade India. b. persuade his generals to retire. c. dismantle the Chinese bureaucracy. d. give his generals almost unlimited authority. e. turn control of the state over to his brilliant Korean bureaucrats. The most important new crop introduced into China during the Tang and Song periods was… In 1024, a. the Song emperors outlawed the printing of paper money by anyone. b. the Song emperors transferred the printing of paper money from governmental to private control. c. the Chinese economy collapsed because of inflation caused by the printing of paper money. d. the Tang emperors established the first modern banking industry. e. the first paper money, printed under government auspices, appeared. In an effort to win support in China by tying into Chinese traditions, Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term dharma as a. wuwei. b. sui. c. dao. d. nalanda. e. tang. The Chinese Buddhist monk, Xuanzang, was famous for a. traveling to Constantinople as an envoy of the Sui emperors. b. his conversion to Nestorian Christianity. c. traveling to India to collect Buddhist texts. d. starting a new sect of Buddhism called Chan. e. his merging of Buddhist and Confucian thought. The scholarly Buddhist emperor who reunited northern India in the seventh century was a. Shankara. b. Harihara. c. Mahmud of Ghazni. d. Harsha. e. Ashoka. In the 840s, Tang emperors a. made Buddhism the favored religion of the central court. b. officially favored the Manichaeans instead of the Buddhists. c. converted to Buddhism but didn’t force the spread of the religion. d. ordered the closure of monasteries and the expulsion of Buddhists. e. converted to Islam. Islam reached India by all of the following routes except a. conquest by Arabic invaders. b. missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha. c. Islamic merchants. d. migrations from Turkish-speaking peoples from central Asia. e. Both b and d are true. The Islamic ruler, who led seventeen different raiding expeditions into India in the eleventh century, was a. Harihara. b. Srivijaya. c. Ramanuja. d. Abu Bakr. e. Mahmud of Ghazni. The Delhi sultans were a. never able to expand their control beyond northern India. b. able to unite all of India for the first time since the Mauryans. c. able to make Islam the main religion of India. d. proponents of a more syncretic version of Islam. e. not able to conquer all of India until they united with the Chinese. The Rule, a set of regulations that shaped the rise of monasticism by avoiding extremism and promoting social service, came from The retainer would owe loyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in return for… In medieval society, political power was vested in Who provided the Roman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy? Which of the following pairings between Germanic tribes and the area they invaded is incorrect? a. Ostrogoths and Italy b. Visigoths and Italy c. Lombards and Italy d. Burgundians and southern Gaul e. Franks and northern Gaul. a. It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman Empire. e. Arabic forces.: Constaninople strategically and commercially important , between both the land route from Europe to Asia and the seaway from the Black or Sea to the Mediterranean d. claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Roman Empire. Greek. b. Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society. Abu Bakr :Abu Bakr's Caliphate lasted for 27 months, during which he crushed the rebellion of the Arab tribes throughout Arabia in the successful campaign against Apostasy. He launched campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) Baghdad. d. Saljuq Turks. a. sakks. a. madrasas. b. persuade his generals to retire. fast-ripening rice. e. the first paper money, printed under government auspices, appeared. c. dao. c. traveling to India to collect Buddhist texts d. Harsha. d. ordered the closure of monasteries and the expulsion of Buddhists. b. missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha. e. Mahmud of Ghazni. a. never able to expand their control beyond northern India. St. Benedict : was a founder of Christian monastic communities and a rule giver for monks living in community ;”Rule” has become the leading guide in Western Christianity for monastic living in community grants of land local authorities: Gregory I : Visigoths and Italy: Geography Identify the following on the map – Spain Italy Gaul Aachen Holy Roman Empire England France