Empire, Crisis, and Recovery in the
West Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
This term refers to a member of an eighth-century Byzantine
movement against the use of icons (pictures of sacred figures),
which it condemned as idolatry. -
correct answer ✅iconoclasts
This term refers to an eighth-century Byzantine movement against
the use of icons (pictures of sacred figures), which was condemned
as idolatry. -
correct answer ✅iconoclasm
This term refers to the outbreak of plague (mostly bubonic) in the
midfourteenth century that killed from 25 to 50 percent of Europe's
population. -
correct answer ✅Black Death
This term refers to organized massacres of Jews. -
correct answer ✅pogroms
This term refers to a movement in fourteenth- and fifteenth-
century Europe that held that final authority in spiritual matters
resided with a general church council, not the pope. It emerged in
, History: World [13] The Byzantine
Empire, Crisis, and Recovery in the
West Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
response to the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism and was
used to justify the summoning of the Council of Constance (1414-
1418). -
correct answer ✅conciliarism
This term refers to the "rebirth" of Classical culture that occurred in
Italy between c. 1350 and c. 1550; also, the earlier revivals of
Classical culture that occurred under Charlemagne and in the
twelfth century. -
correct answer ✅Renaissance
This term refers to an intellectual movement in Renaissance Italy
based on the study of the Greek and Roman classics. -
correct answer ✅Renaissance humanism
This term refers to a French tax on land or property, developed by
King Louis XI in the fifteenth century as the financial basis of the
monarchy. It was largely paid by the peasantry; the nobility and the
clergy were exempt. -
correct answer ✅taille