TEXT BOOK: WORLD CIVILIZATION – 6TH EDITION

TEXT BOOK: WORLD CIVILIZATION – 6TH EDITION

CHAPTER 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20

1. Above all, the Abbasid caliphate promised to provide

		an enlarged empire.
		religious equality.
		improved educational opportunities.
		more religious leadership.

2.  Abbasid bureaucracy was directed by a sort of prime minister, or

		emir
		kadir
		caliph
		vizer

3.  The Muslim army under the Abbasids was

		mainly Arab mercenaries.
		international and well-respected.
		mainly Persian slaves.
		no match for Byzantine soldiers.

4.  All of the following are considered original inventions of the Muslims except

		papermaking.
		fictional literature.
		the university.
		the decimal system.

5.  As a master teacher, Muslim scholars held in particularly high regard

		Plato
		Aristotle
		Aeschylus.
		Socrates

6.  The Qur’an prohibited the lifelike representation of

		the human figure
		the horse
		any animal
		Allah

7.  Muslim visual art can best be described as

		explicitly representational.
		primitive in technique.
		geometrically or floral based.
		similar to Christian art.

8.  In the Middle East, the Mongols invaded an empire already broken apart by the

		Iranians
		Seljuk Turks.
		Arabs
		Romans

9.  Sufism is the Islamic version of the intellectual phenomenon known in the West as

		communism
		mysticism
		indiviudalism
		feminism

10.   The world’s various trading cities during the Abbasid caliphate, such as Córdoba, Madrid, and Baghdad, would best be described as

		crime-ridden.
		cosmopolitan
		culturally lacking.
		religiously divided

11.  The cultural, economic and political center of Muslim Spain was the city of Barcelona.

True

False

12.  The most famous example of Muslim-inspired architecture is the Taj Mahal.

True

False

13.  The capture of Baghdad by the Phonecians finally ended the Abbasid Caliphate.

True

False

14.  The Islamic world reached as far as Spain to the east by 1500.

True

False

15.  The Sharia is the sacred law based on the Qur’an.

True

False

16.  European slavery declined after 1000 C.E. due to

		expenses associated with keeping slaves.
		the Crusades into the Middle East.
		disapproval by the Church.
		changes in climate that made keeping slaves unnecessary.

17.  The only true wealth for the nobility during the Middle Ages was

		a plentiful supply of gold.
		the hereditary rank they held.
		that which they earned through trade.
		land ownership.

18.  Which of the following contributed to the improvement of medieval agriculture?

		the steel-tipped plow
		chemical fertilizers
		the padded horse collar
		turnip animal fodder

19.  The Benedictine monks of the Middle Ages were known for

		leaving their monasteries to witness to the poor in foreign lands.
		being members of the largest religious order in all of Europe.
		competing with the Jesuits for territory.
		their skill at winemaking, through which they made large amounts of money.

20.  Before the 12 century, monks and nuns were usually taken from the

		younger offspring of the aristocracy.
		large families produced by the peasantry.
		scandal-ridden members of the nobility.
		already diminutive middle class.

21.  The great scandal of the Fourth Crusade was that it

		lost Jerusalem to the Muslims.
		resulted in the occupation of the Christian city of Constantinople by Crusaders.
		led to a war with the Greeks.
		deteriorated into a quest for wealth and power.

22.  The university founded at Bologna was celebrated mainly as a school of

		law
		philosophy
		medicine
		theology

23.  The study of Classical pagan authors in Western Europe came mainly through the work done by

		Frederick Barbarossa.
		the Seljuk Turks.
		Jews in France.
		Muslims in Spain.

24.  The large cathedrals were paid for

		by monarchs.
		through taxation.
		by the Vatican.
		through donations of time and labor.

25.  The main reason the literature of Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer is significant is because of which of the following

		Latin was no longer the preferred language of the educated.
		They represent the educated who were underappreciated in their own time.
		Education in Latin was clearly reinforced in their writings.
		None of the options are correct.

26.  Most of the work on Medieval European manors was performed by serf.

True

False

27.  A master was a person to which some form of feudal service was owed.

True

False

28.  The patron saint of France is Joan of Triumph.

True

False

29.  In his Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas attempted to prove God’s existence through Classical arguments.

True

False

30.  The greatest Christian teacher of the 12 centuries was Dante.

True

False

 

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