World History Unit 2

What is the comprehensive law code that was created in the Byzantine Empire?

• Justinian Code of Law

• 12 Tablets

• Hammurabi Code

• English Bill or Rights

The Great Schism split Christianity into these two branches:

• Islam and Judaism

• Roman Catholic and Southern Orthodox

• Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox

• Sunni and Shi'a

After the fall of Rome, the ________provided stability and gave the people of Europe shared beliefs.

• military

• Church

• tax collectors

• universities

How was Christianity spread?

• by missionaries

• by the knights on their travels

• through government requirements

• by the charging of a non-Christian tax

Which religion was practiced in the Byzantine Empire and Russia?

• Eastern Orthodox Christian

• Islam

• Sikhism

• Roman Catholic Christianity

In Europe, what caused disruption of trade, a decline in learning, loss of a common language and the creation of the feudal system?

• the Great Schism

• fall of the Roman Empire

• fall of the Byzantine Empire

• the collapse of feudalism

Feudalism developed because

• people moved to rural areas and needed protection from invaders after the fall of Rome

• the monarchs created this system to give them more power

• cities in Europe became too boring and people wanted a change so they moved to the countryside

• the church told the monarchs to create this systme as a way to control peasant rebellions

Contact between Mulsims and Europeans caused

• the Silk Road to close

• ideas to be exchanged, like Arabic numerals

• Islam to spread into all of Europe

• Most Muslims to convert to Christianity

Islam was spread through trade networks like

• the European manor trade system

• South American trade roads

• the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean trade

True or False: Non Muslims paid a tax to continue to practice their religion in the Ottoman Empire

• True

• False