Medieval Society Quiz

In medieval society, political power was vested in

• a strong centralized government.

• local notables or lords.

• the pope.

• the hands of the Holy Roman emperor.

• the hands of the Byzantine emperor.

Historians once used the term feudalism to refer to

• a strong, centralized political order.

• the Byzantine religious world.

• the Islamic bureaucratic system that dominated for over five hundred years.

• the class of highly trained Confucian officials.

• the political and social order of medieval Europe.

The Byzantine emperors deeply resented—as an affront to their dignity—the pope's imperial coronation in the year 800 of the Frankish king,

• Otto of Saxony.

• Charlemagne.

• Basil II.

• Cyril.

• Hugh Capet.

Constantinople was raided at least three times in the ninth and tenth centuries by the

• French.

• Franks.

• Russians.

• Vikings.

• Magyars.

Justinian's most important and long-lasting political achievement was his

• reconquest of the western half of the Roman empire.

• democratic reforms.

• religious compromise between the Roman Catholic and the Greek Orthodox churches.

• codification of Roman law.

• establishment of a lasting peace with the Islamic world.

Constantinople withstood sieges in 674-678 and 717-718 by

• the Sasanids.

• the Gauls.

• the Russians.

• the Greeks.

• Muslim forces.

Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to the

• European struggle between church and state.

• split between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.

• attempt by later Roman emperors to abolish the papacy.

• system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority.

• bureaucratic revolution brought about by Julius Caesar.

One important political feature of the Byzantine state was its

• docile acceptance of Rome's superiority.

• republican governmental structure that resembled early Rome.

• tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor.

• division of power under the tetrarchs.

• reliance on Achaemenid ruling principles.

Western Roman imperial power ended in 476 C.E. with the invasion of the

• Germanic general Odovacer.

• Byzantine emperor Justinian.

• Frankish chieftain Clovis.

• Emperor Otto I.

• Islamic ruler Harun al-Rashid.

The Benedictine Rule was spread to women living in convents by

• Gregory I.

• Clement VII.

• Leo III.

• St. Scholastica.

• Clotilda.