between the Eastern and Roman churches during
the Middle Ages?
2. The Byzantine emperor Justinian's most lasting collection and codification of Rome's
achievement was the ancient laws
3. Muslims regard Mohammad as the final prophet
4. ________ means both an internal striving by the Jihad
individual for moral self-improvement and a
collective military struggle to defend Islam against
its enemies
5. Christians and Jews who lived in Islamic lands were protected and tolerated but had
fewer rights than Muslims
6. In the eighth and ninth centuries, under the creatively integrated Arabic, Byzantine,
Abbasid caliphs, Muslim civilization Persian, and Indian cultural traditions
7. Cassiodorus (c. 490-575) was a scholar who established a monastic
library containing Greek and Latin texts
and advocated education for the clergy
8. Irish and English monasteries played an important role in attracting
converts and a critical role in preserving
classical learning
9. The Franks became the dominant people in the conversion of Clovis to Roman
Western Europe, in part because Christianity gave them an advantage
over Arian Christian Germans
10. The Carolingian Renaissance reversed the process of cultural decay,
which had characterized much of the
Early Middle Ages
11. Feudalism provided some order and security in establishing a reciprocal relationship
medieval society by between lords and vassals based on
promises of obligation and protection
12. Vassals pledged loyalty to lord and, in return for fief
service, were granted a
13. Byzantine emperors were absolute rulers who held that they had
been appointed by God
14. During the eighth century, the Muslim's threat to was countered by the Byzantine usage
Constantinople of a new weapon, "Greek Fire"
15. The Five Pillars of Islamic faith include all of the Muslims must seek to convert
following EXCEPT nonbelievers to Islam
16. Pope Gregory I tightened the bonds between the
monks and the papacy
17. The creation of an empire by Charlemagne embodied the ideal of a universal
Christian state and was recognized by
the pope's crowning of Charlemagne as
emperor