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Byzantine
Islam
Empire in
East ASia
Game design by Mary Catherine McGillvray
India
Chritianity in
Western Europe
Final
Jeopardy!
Byzantine
Islam
Empire in
East Asia
India
Chritianity in
Western Europe
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Which of the following statements about
Constantinople is not true?
a. It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of
the Roman Empire.
b. It was constructed by Constantine.
c. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on the Sasanid Empire in
Persia.
d. It was built because the eastern half was the wealthier and more
productive part of the empire.
e. It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on Germanic tribes on the
Danube.
Constantinople withstood
sieges in 674–678 and 717–718
by
a. the Sasanids.
b. the Gauls.
c. the Russians.
d. the Greeks.
e. Arabic forces.
In the year 962, Otto of Saxony
a. accepted the sovereignty of the Byzantine emperors.
b. created a written alphabet for the Slavic people.
c. expanded the scope of Byzantine influence by translating
Justinian’s code into German.
d. claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the
Roman Empire.
e. invaded and sacked Constantinople.
From the sixth century on, the
official language of
Constantinople was
a. Latin.
b. Turkish.
c. Aramaic.
d. Greek.
e. French.
Which of the following describes education
in Byzantium?
a. Byzantium fell far short of the standards set in the
western half of the empire.
b. Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine
society.
c. Byzantium struggled because of the lack of a
written language.
d. Only the members of the central court could read
and write.
e. Byzantium made tremendous strides after its
conquest of the Arabic world.
After the death of Muhammad,
political leadership fell to a
caliph by the name of…
The capital of the Abbasid
Empire was
a. Damascus.
b. Istanbul.
c. Mecca.
d. Cordoba.
e. Baghdad.
During the last two-hundred
years of the Abbasid Empire, it
fell under the control of the
a. Byzantine Empire.
b. Ottoman Turkish Empire.
c. Sasanids.
d. Saljuq Turks.
e. Holy Roman Empire.
Islamic banks honored letters of
credit, which could be drawn on
the parent bank, known as
a. sakks.
b. gadis.
c. ka’ba.
d. sufis.
e. sunnis.
In an effort to recruit learned
students, Islamic leaders often
financially supported institutions of
higher learning called
a. madrasas.
b. sufis.
c. dar al-Islam.
d. umma.
e. qadis.
The Song dynasty was substantially
weakened by Song Taizu’s decision to
a. invade India.
b. persuade his generals to retire.
c. dismantle the Chinese bureaucracy.
d. give his generals almost unlimited
authority.
e. turn control of the state over to his brilliant
Korean bureaucrats.
The most important new crop
introduced into China during
the Tang and Song periods
was…
In 1024,
a. the Song emperors outlawed the printing of paper
money by anyone.
b. the Song emperors transferred the printing of
paper money from governmental to private control.
c. the Chinese economy collapsed because of
inflation caused by the printing of paper money.
d. the Tang emperors established the first modern
banking industry.
e. the first paper money, printed under government
auspices, appeared.
In an effort to win support in China by
tying into Chinese traditions, Buddhist
missionaries translated the Indian term
dharma as
a. wuwei.
b. sui.
c. dao.
d. nalanda.
e. tang.
The Chinese Buddhist monk, Xuanzang,
was famous for
a. traveling to Constantinople as an envoy of the Sui
emperors.
b. his conversion to Nestorian Christianity.
c. traveling to India to collect Buddhist texts.
d. starting a new sect of Buddhism called Chan.
e. his merging of Buddhist and Confucian thought.
The scholarly Buddhist emperor
who reunited northern India in the
seventh century was
a. Shankara.
b. Harihara.
c. Mahmud of Ghazni.
d. Harsha.
e. Ashoka.
In the 840s, Tang emperors
a. made Buddhism the favored religion of the
central court.
b. officially favored the Manichaeans instead of the
Buddhists.
c. converted to Buddhism but didn’t force the spread
of the religion.
d. ordered the closure of monasteries and the
expulsion of Buddhists.
e. converted to Islam.
Islam reached India by all of the
following routes except
a. conquest by Arabic invaders.
b. missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha.
c. Islamic merchants.
d. migrations from Turkish-speaking peoples from
central Asia.
e. Both b and d are true.
The Islamic ruler, who led seventeen
different raiding expeditions into India
in the eleventh century, was
a. Harihara.
b. Srivijaya.
c. Ramanuja.
d. Abu Bakr.
e. Mahmud of Ghazni.
The Delhi sultans were
a. never able to expand their control beyond
northern India.
b. able to unite all of India for the first time since the
Mauryans.
c. able to make Islam the main religion of India.
d. proponents of a more syncretic version of Islam.
e. not able to conquer all of India until they united
with the Chinese.
The Rule, a set of regulations
that shaped the rise of
monasticism by avoiding
extremism and promoting
social service, came from
The retainer would owe
loyalty, obedience, and
military service to his lord in
return for…
In medieval society, political
power was vested in
Who provided the Roman
church with a sense of
direction by reasserting papal
primacy?
Which of the following pairings between
Germanic tribes and the area they invaded is
incorrect?
a. Ostrogoths and Italy
b. Visigoths and Italy
c. Lombards and Italy
d. Burgundians and southern Gaul
e. Franks and northern Gaul.
a. It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished
eastern half of the Roman Empire.
e. Arabic forces.: Constaninople strategically and commercially
important , between both the land route
from Europe to Asia and the seaway
from the Black or Sea to the
Mediterranean
d. claimed to rule as emperor of the old
western half of the Roman Empire.
Greek.
b. Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine
society.
Abu Bakr :Abu Bakr's Caliphate lasted for
27 months, during which he crushed the
rebellion of the Arab tribes throughout
Arabia in the successful campaign
against Apostasy. He launched
campaigns against the Sassanid Empire
and the Eastern Roman Empire
(Byzantine Empire)
Baghdad.
d. Saljuq Turks.
a. sakks.
a. madrasas.
b. persuade his generals to retire.
fast-ripening rice.
e. the first paper money, printed under
government auspices, appeared.
c. dao.
c. traveling to India to collect
Buddhist texts
d. Harsha.
d. ordered the closure of monasteries and the
expulsion of Buddhists.
b. missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha.
e. Mahmud of Ghazni.
a. never able to expand their control beyond
northern India.
St. Benedict : was a founder of
Christian monastic
communities and a rule giver
for monks living in community
;”Rule” has become the
leading guide in Western
Christianity for monastic
living in community
grants of land
local authorities:
Gregory I :
Visigoths and Italy:
Geography
Identify the following on the map –
Spain
Italy
Gaul
Aachen
Holy Roman Empire
England
France