Christianity
Byzantine emperors like Justinian were
A) Frankish
B) followers of Roman mythology
C) Muslim
D) Christian
D) Christian
Which work preserved Rome's laws
A) The Qur'an
B) Justinian's Code
C) Hammurabi's Code
D) The Gospels
B) Justinian's Code
Who would have had imperial authority/power?
A) the Byzantine (Roman) emperors
B) Muhammad
C) Alfred the Great
D) Ragnar Lothbrok (a Viking)
A) the Byzantine emperors
The spread of Islam throughout Asia and Africa along trade routes is an example of
A) colonization
B) cultural diffusion
C) conquest
D) raiding
B) cultural diffusion
Who was from Scandinavia?
A) Angles and Saxons
B) Franks
C) Vikings
D) Arabs
C) Vikings
Which two religions easily combined in Japan?
A) Islam and Buddhism
B) Judaism and Hinduism
C) Shintoism and Christianity
D) Buddhism and Shintoism
D) Buddhism and Shintoism
Constantinople was
A) at a crossroads of trade
B) between Africa and Asia
C) in the center of the Mediterranean
D) on an oasis
A) at a crossroads of trade
Which desert stretches across Northern Africa?
A) Death Valley
B) Sahara
C) Arabian
D) Gobi
B) Sahara
The Dome of the Rock was built on the site of?
A) Muhammad's return to Mecca
B) Muhammad's arrival in Medina
C) Muhammad's visit from Gabriel
D) Muhammad's Night Journey
D) Muhammad's Night Journey
The Byzantine (Roman) Empire greatly influenced its neighbor to the north, __
A) Russia
B) France
C) England
D) Arabia
A) Russia
Eastern Orthodox religious texts are mostly written in
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) German
D) Arabic
B) Greek
Constantinople possessed many
A) canals
B) natural harbors
C) hills
D) mines
B) natural harbors
The Byzantine Empire was
A) Muslim
B) Christian
C) Buddhist
D) Polytheistic
B) Christian
After the death of Muhammad, Islam quickly expanded and took lands from the ___ empires
A) Frankish and Lombard
B) Byzantine (Roman) and Persian
C) Persian and Chinese
D) Byzantine and Frankish
B) Byzantine (Roman) and Persian
Who settled in Britain
A) the Ostrogoths
B) the Arabs
C) the Angles and Saxons
D) the Visigoths
C) the Angles and Saxons
Roman Catholics wrote in
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) Arabic
D) German
A) Latin
Constantinople was on a
A) plain
B) mountain
C) island
D) peninsula
D) peninsula
The adjective for empire is
A) national
B) ethnic
C) imperial
D) monarchic
E) dynastic
C) imperial
Before the spread of Islam, the two main powers in the Middle East were the
A) Franks and Persians
B) Franks and Byzantines
C) Persians and Egyptians
D) Byzantines and Persians
D) Byzantines and Persians
During the Middle Ages, common people could rely on __ to help them
A) civil/social services
B) businesses
C) priests
D) their clans
C) priests
Which religion has a Pope?
A) Islam
B) Roman Catholicism
C) Eastern Orthodoxy
D) Buddhism
B) Roman Catholicism
Constantinople was __ from the Germanic invasions that plagued the Western Roman Empire
A) distant
B) affected by
C) near
D) the cause of
A) distant
Who was a bloodthirsty conqueror that took over almost half the world and is estimated to have killed 40 million people?
A) Charlemagne
B) Genghis Khan
C) William the Conqueror
D) Justinian
B) Genghis Khan
Islam spreads by
A) missionaries
B) colonization
C) conquest
D) trade
D) trade
In feudalism, another word for a peasant is a
A) Vassal
B) Noble
C) Lord
D) Serf
D) Serf