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