H113 Western Civilization to 1500
Study Guide II for Exam II (Covering Chapters 6,7, 8)
1. As Roman Administrator, what was Pontius Pilate's major concern?
2. What documents provide the most important information about the Life of Jesus?
3. What was the main source of Augustus' power?
4. Where was Roman imperial expansion concentrated during the reign of Augustus?
5. What were the social products of the economic turmoil of the third century?
6. What Roman Emperor legalized Christianity?
7. How would one describe the overall relationship between Christians and Rome to 312 A.D.?
8. In "Listening to the Past, Chapter 6," why did the Emperor Claudius want to seat Romanized Gauls in the Senate?
9. What was the most important ingredient in the making of Europe according to the text?
10. What idea is central to the Petrine Doctrine?
11. What word describes the worth of an individual in Germanic law?
12. How did Bishop Ambrose and Pope Gelasius conceive of a well-ordered Christian society?
13. What strengths allowed Constantinople to remain a military bulwark for centuries?
14. How did St. Augustine view history in The City of God?
15. What were penitentials?
16. What was the major purpose of the Salic Law and other Germanic law codes?
17. After the death of Caliph Ali, Islam divided into what two groups?
18. How do Moslems view the purpose of the state?
19. How was royal succession often determined in Merovingian times?
20. What does the term rex et sacerdos refer to in the Carolingian Monarchy?
21. What were the military border regions called in the Carolingian dynasty?
22. What did peasants owe their lords in the system of Manorialism?
23. In current research, what is held primarily responsible for the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire?
24. What important technological breakthrough played a major impact on feudal military order?
25. What did the lord furnish the peasants in return for their obligations?