Biology

History

Literature

Shakespeare

SparkNotes

History Study Guides

Early Middle Ages

Review Test

General Summary

Context

Important Terms, People, and Events

Timeline

Post-Roman Europe I: Italy and Southern Gaul From Theodoric to the Lombards (488-600)

Eastern Rome from Marcian to Justin: Doorstep of Byzantium (450-527)

From Eastern Roman Revanche to Byzantium under Siege I: Justinian I (527-565)

From Eastern Roman Revanche to Byzantium under Siege II: Justin II to Heraclius (565-641)

Islamic Expansion and Political Evolution, 632-1000

From Roman Gaul to the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks (450-511)

Clovis' Sons and Creeping Merovingian Anarchy (511-640)

Charlemagne and the Carolingian State(s) to 843

End of the First European Order: Foreign Invasions, Carolingian Obsolescence, and Doorstep of the High Middle Ages (840s-950s)

Political Arrangements in Europe towards the Second Millennium

Christianity, 325-650s: Conversion, the Papacy, and Monasticism I

Christianity, 650s-950s: Conversion, the Papacy, and Monasticism II

Review Test

Early Middle Ages (475-1000)

Review Test

1. Monasticism originated in

(A) Ireland

(B) Egypt and Syria

(D) Cenoba

2. The Benedictine Rule regulated

(A) Frankish royal succession

(B) Monastic life in the West

(D) Frankish blood money

3. What was Chalcedon's official position in 451?

(A) Peter established Rome as preeminent church

(B) Two Natures Coexisting in One Person

(D) The Emperor had to speak Greek

4. Arianism posited:

(A) Two Natures Coexisting in One Person

(B) The Divine overpowered the Human in Christ

(D) Rome fell because it took on Christianity

5. The Donation of Constantine was

(A) His patronage of the church in the 4th century

(B) A forgery

(D) The funding of St. Sophia

6. Zeno's origins were

(A) Balkan

(B) Isaurian

(D) Slav

7. Place Justinian's conquests in the poper order:

(A) Thrace, Rome, Spain, North Africa

(B) North Africa, Italy, Spain

(D) Italy, Spain, North Africa

8. Missi Dominici had what role?

(A) Papal legates sent to check on dioceses in Germany

(B) Royal agents sent from Charlemagne's palace to assure his writ was executed

(D) Assistants to Cluniac abbots

9. Aspar's relation to Leo I was

(A) Son

(B) Leo was his household steward

(D) Barbarian general

10. When was Busta Gallorum and what did it signify?

(A) 552, Gothic defeat of East Romans

(B) 552, East Roman defeat of Goths

(D) 840, Civil war between Louis the Pious' sons

11. Youngerfill was

(A) Germanic blood-money

(B) Alluvial deposits eroding ancient terraces

(D) Method of building up Constantinople's walls

12. What was the theoretical relationship between Rome and other major church cities?

(A) Peter stated that Rome was preeminent

(B) Equality

(D) Rome above all but Constantinople

13. Where, and in what sphere was Theodore of Tarsus active?

(A) Frisia, conversian of pagans

(B) England, monastic classical learning

(D) Justinian's tax collector

14. What does nika mean?

(A) Conquest, of lands taken by Persians

(B) Win, as in against Justinian by Blues and Greens

(D) One Person, Two Natures

15. What was an exarchate?

(A) Exiled Byzantine elites

(B) Commander of imperial outposts in Ravenna and Carthage

(D) Military lands in Anatolia

16. When did Byzantium first encounter Islam?

(A) 687

(B) 636

(D) 711

17. What was Tribonian's contribution?

(A) Efficient tax collection

(B) The Justinian law code

(D) He was Theodoric's Praetorian Prefect

18. To whom did Aegidus turn for military forces?

(A) Odovaacar

(B) Frankish Childeric

(D) Totilla

19. Who were not allies

(A) Louis the Pious and Wittiza

(B) Zeno and Basiliscus

(D) Aethelbert and Irish monastics

20. Who sent Theodoric to Italy?

(A) Leo

(B) Zeno

(D) Cassiodorus

21. Wergeld is

(A) Gold deposits in Lombardy

(B) Germanic blood money

(D) Wessex's jurists

22. What was Theodoric's Aspiration?

(A) Roman-Byzantine reconcilliation

(B) Roman-Gothic synthesis

(D) To convert the Goths to Catholicism

23. Who was the last effective Merovingian, and when did he rule?

(A) Chlodovecus, 529-549

(B) Dagobert (629-638)

(D) Sigibert, 629-650

24. When was the Edict of Clothar, and what did it say?

(A) 625 - He would only choose Pepin as Mayor of the House

(B) 613- he would only choose counts from people living in those counties

(D) 645 - the Salic laws were abolished

25. What was Pepin of Landen's position?

(A) Bishop of Arnulf

(B) Mayor of the House

(D) Usurper of Bishop of Arnulf's position

26. When did Pirenne see the beginning of the Dark Ages?

(A) 455

(B) 650-700

(D) 511

27. What typifies the Viking approach?

(A) Trade and raid

(B) Mostly raid, and a little trade

(D) Trade before raiding

28. When and where did the Bulgars first present a threat?

(A) Italy, 560s

(B) Byzantium, Thrace 510

(D) Black Sea, 520s

29. Who invited Pepin III south and when?

(A) Lombard King Alfons in 755

(B) Pope Stehpen II, 753-755

(D) Ravenna exarch, 737

30. Which is not an aspect of the Themes?

(A) Militarized peasants as mobilizible soldiers

(B) Strict separation of civil and military administration

(D) Division of Anatolia and Asia minor into military districts

31. By when had Charlemagne mostly subdued the Saxons?

(A) 806

(B) 790s

(D) He never did

32. What was Anastasia's religious policy?

(A) Orthodox

(B) Monophysite

(D) Nestoriate

33. What was not a component of the Cluniac approach?

(A) Close abbot control

(B) Simony

(D) Communal liturgic prayer

34. Simony refers to

(A) Simon the Dragon Slayer

(B) Trafficking in Church offices

(D) Deposition of ruling Mayors

35. What is not one of Islam's five pillars?

(A) Fasting

(B) Jihad

(D) Pilgrimage

36. What was Marcian's Hun policy?

(A) Tribute

(B) Refusal to negotiate

(D) Warfare

37. When was the battle of Qadisiyya and who was involved?

(A) 637, Islam and Byzantium

(B) 637, Islam and Sassanians

(D) 626, Byzantium and Avars

38. Islamic policy to Christians and Jews was

(A) Conversion or death

(B) Religious freedom but financial liability and social demotion

(D) Neglect

39. The Muslim's first besieged Constantinople in

(A) 565

(B) 687

(D) 732

40. The first Caliph was

(A) Ali

(B) Abu Bakr

(D) Umar

41. When and what was Lechfeld?

(A) 955, defeat of Vikings

(B) 955, defeat of Magyars

(D) 533, defeat of Vandals

42. Fealty describes

(A) Vows of monasticism

(B) Personal oath of feudal loyalty

(D) English court system

43. When did Heraclius rule?

(A) 603-650

(B) 610-641

(D) 580-600

44. What was compurgation?

(A) Witnesses' oaths at church synods

(B) Oaths of innocence in Germanic courts

(D) Papal version of fealty

45. What did the Papal states not include?

(A) Rome

(B) Sicily

(D) Areas vacated by Byzantium

46. What was Pepin's Donation?

(A) Land to churches in Gaul

(B) A forged document giving the Church control of conquered Italian lands

(D) Patronage of monastic learning

47. When did the Lombrads arrive in Italy?

(A) 641

(B) 568

(D) 565

48. Who led Eastern Roman forces to North Africa and Italy?

(A) Illus

(B) Belisarius

(D) Narses

49. When did Charlemagne become Holy Roman Emperor

(A) 806

(B) 800

(D) 813

50. What was a sheriff

(A) Merovingian lawman

(B) English provincial inspector

(D) Germanic blood money scale

Help | Feedback | Make a request | Report an error | Send to a friend

◄ PREVIOUS
Christianity, 650s-950s: Conversion, the Papacy, and Monasticism II

NEXT ►
Further Reading

Message Boards
Ask a question or start a discussion on the community boards.

General History

General Discussion on American History

General Discussion on European History

Roman History

Middle Ages

The Renaissance

Historical Approaches

Current Events

Warfare

Printable PDF
Download a printable version of this SparkNote.

Spuzzles
Interactive crossword puzzles that will boost your test score.

History Spuzzles

SparkCharts
A textbook's worth of information on an easy-to-read chart.