Harper HUM101 Week 6 Quiz Latest 2021 April

HUM101 ANCIENT THROUGH THE MEDIEVAL WEST

Week 6 Quiz

Question 1The capital of the Byzantine empire was the city ______________________. It was renamed Istanbul when the Byzantine empire was finally conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

Question 2In 476, the rule of Rome was taken by __________, who claimed the title of “king of Italy”. This signaled the end of the western Roman empire.

Question 3The most important early ruler of the Byzantine empire was ___________. Ruling from 527 to 565 C.E., he is credited with defeating the armies of the Ostragoths and Vandals, and establishing the Byzantine empire as successor to Roman power and culture.

Question 4The most famous of the churches built by #3 is the ________________, a magnificent structure that, at the time of its completion, was the largest building in Europe. It is still standing.

Question 5Another important contribution by #3 was the ___________________, also called the Justinian Code. This work gathered together and organized into one document over 900 years’ worth of accumulated Roman legal writings, and eventually formed the basis for most later European legal systems, except for England’s.

Question 6A major crisis hit the Byzantine empire in the 8th century, called the __________________ Controversy. This crisis was caused a conflict over the creation and use of images of Jesus, Mary, and other sacred figures. Some supported the creation of these “icons”, while others who believed that it was idolatry destroyed much of the art already in existence.

Question 7The first emperor of the Byzantine Macedonian Dynasty was ______________. During the “Macedonian Renaissance” under his and his successors’ rule, universities were reopened and literature and art flourished.

Question 8An alphabetic system called ___________________ was introduced by Byzantine missionaries to Slavic peoples, so that they could write the Bible and other religious texts in the Slavonic languages. This alphabet became the basis for writing in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Question 9Living and working in the early 12th century, a Byzantine princess named __________________ is now considered one of the greatest writers of the Byzantine empire. Her biography of her father, Emperor Alexios, is one of our best sources of information about that period of Byzantine history.

Question 10A type of bound book called a ___________________ replaced the scrolls that had been in use earlier in the Byzantine empire.

Question 11A part of the Pope’s authority came from ___________________, a document supposedly written by the Roman emperor Constantine which gave the “pope” religious authority over all of Western Europe. The document was later discovered to be a forgery.

Question 12The translation into Latin of the Old and New Testaments in 382 by ____________________ eventually became the official Bible of the Catholic Church. It is now called the Vulgate.

Question 13In the 500’s, ________________________ of Nursia wrote his “Rule”, as guidelines for monastic communities. This established a system governing monastic life based on poverty, obedience, and work, especially devoted to copying and preserving important texts. The “Rule” became the model for most early monastic orders in Europe.

Question 14The first important pope, __________________________, was pope from 590-604. He established the bureaucratic structure of the Church, reformed and standardized the calendar, sent missionaries out, and established regular, consistent Church policies of governance.

Question 15One of the reforms carried out by #14 was the development of ________________________, a type of plainsong that entire groups of men or women could participate in together. This became the standard musical form used for prayer and for religious rituals.

Question 16One of the books created in a British scriptorium is the ______________________ Gospels, created in a Northumbrian monastery after which it is named, sometime in the late 7th or early 8th century. It is now considered one of the greatest works of medieval art.

Question 17The style used in the decorations of #16 is called the ______________________ Style. It is characterized by “detailed geometric designs, interlace, and stylized animal decoration”, particularly used in illuminated manuscripts. It was unique to the British Isles and is therefore sometimes called the “Insular Style”. 

Question 18An important archeological site in Suffolk, called _____________________is where the burial mound of an Anglo-Saxon leader has yielded jewelry, weapons, armor, and a whole ship. This find has given modern archeologists a chance to see early Anglo-Saxon artistic designs and lifestyles.

Question 19The poem, _______________________ is the earliest known epic poem written in English. It is set in the Pre-Christian world of Germanic tribes, and depicts a warrior’s battle with monsters and dragons for the sake of glory for himself and his king, but it also references disastrous human intertribal conflicts.

Question 20The most important of the Carolingian rulers, ____________________________, conquered much of what is now Western Europe, but he is mainly known for trying to establish a new Roman Empire, now fully Christian. His reign would see what has been called the “Carolingian Renaissance”, and become the basis for European concepts of ideal Christian kingship.

Question 21An epic poem celebrating a warrior of the king in #20 was the _________________, a poem in which a great warrior dies in battle, rather than ask for help from his king. This warrior became the model of European concepts of nobility throughout the Middle Ages and later, into the Renaissance.

Question 22The system that dominated Western Europe from the 9th to the 15th century is called _______________. It was a system which depended on the relationship between “lords” and their “vassals”, based on land ownership and land use. Holding of land was offered in exchange for work or service, particularly military service.

Question 23Among the last groups to convert to Christianity were the _________________________, from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Well into the 10th century, they were still conducting raids on monasteries. Also called Norsemen and famous for their skills in sailing, they eventually established settlements in Iceland and even temporarily on the northeastern edge of the Americas.

Question 24The invasion of England in the year 1066, now called the ______________________ Invasion, was the last example of large-scale movements of peoples in Europe, in the early Middle Ages.

Question 25A major survey of the English lands conquered by the Normans ruler, called the ___________________ and completed in 1086, was the first written survey of the population and its wealth done in England.