Social
Political
Interatctions
Cultural
Economical
100
What social class in Byzantine was important in supplying goods and providing most tab revenues?
Peasants
100
What year was the Magna Carta signed?
1215
100
Constantinople life pattern was influenced by ______ cultural and commercial influence.
Arab
100
What was the official language of the Byzantine empire after the reign of emperor Justinian in the 6th century?
Greek
100
What was the name of the devastating plague that killed 1/3 of Western Europe's population?
Black Death(Bubonic plague)
200
What religion emphasized equality for women and men?
Christianity
200
From the 6th century onward, what system was the key to political and military relationships in Western Europe?
Feudalism
200
Western Europe organized ________ to gain Jerusalem back after losing the Holy Land to a Muslim general named Saladin.
Crusades
200
Who in 1958 was declared the patron saint of television by pope Pius XII?
St. Clare of Assisi
200
Which emperor(known as a moron) contributed to many innovations of the Byzantine empire?
Justinian
300
What regulated trade and controlled food prices in Byzantine?
Bureaucracy
300
What weapon was used to beat back a major siege against the capital of the Byzantine empire during the years of 717-718 C.E.?
Greek Fire
300
Who were the invaders that conquered the Byzantine capital Constantinople?
Seljuk Turks
300
What order created by the 13th century flowering reform movement were devoted to poverty and service in Europe's bustling cities?
Franciscans
300
What was the system in which a third of the land would be left unplanted each year to regain fertility?
Three Field System
400
_____ where the peasants that worked on self sufficient agriculture estates.
Serfs
400
By what year had the Turks conquered everything that remained of the Byzantine empire?
1461
400
What two monarchies battled in the Hundred Years War?
France and England
400
What secular traditions did Byzantine cultural life center on?
Hellenism
400
What was one of the reasons the Byzantine empire entered a long period of decline?
Turkish(Seljuks) -cut off prosperous source of tax revenues -pressed on eastern borders -seized asiatic provinces
500
True or False. Could Byzantine bureaucrats be recruited from all social classes?
True
500
What founder of the Carolingian line was responsible for defeating the Muslims in the battle of tours in 732?
Charles Martel(Charles the Hammer)
500
What was the name of the Russian civilization who was first ruled by Rurik that shared resemblance of the Byzantine empire?
Kievan Rus'
500
What were two poetry themes that Western Europe focused on?
-Love -Death -Religion
500
What is the system of economic and political relations between landlords and their peasants called?
Manorilism
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