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In the Germanic tradition, law was administered by kings and great warriors. _____ |
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Germanic law assigned more value to child-bearing women than to post-menopausal women. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Theodore of Tarsus founded a new monastic order at Canterbury. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The Venerable Bede, like many scholars in classical and medieval times, did not distinguish between factual information and legends or rumors. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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A king required the approval of the Witan, a circle of wise men, in order to succeed to the throne. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Shire reeves, later called sheriffs, were accountable to earls, not the monarchy. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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When Alfred and Guthrum divided England, Guthrum agreed to convert to Christianity. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Alfred encouraged learning among his people by translating literature into Old English. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The missi dominici that Charlemagne sent out to make his subjects conform to the law consisted of pairs, made up of a bishop and a nobleman. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Charlemagne forced many of the peoples he conquered to convert to Christianity, including the Byzantines. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Charlemagne used his relationship with the Islamic caliph, Harun Al Raschid, to overthrow Irene. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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To promote Christianity, Charlemagne founded schools, encouraged an educated clergy, and assembled a canon of books. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The reformers who established the Cluniac order wanted to free the monastery from the control of papal rulers. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The different languages in which Charles the Bald and Louis the German pledged the Strasbourg Oaths indicated divisions within Charlemagne’s empire that would increase with time. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Carolingian empire was vulnerable to invaders because of the mismanagement of Louis the Bald’s sons and economic crisis. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The Scandinavians became skilled seamen in part because they needed to supplement their agricultural produce. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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The Vikings sailed all the way to North America, where they encountered natives they called Skraelings, who soon converted to Christianity and established peaceful trade relations with the Europeans. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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One of the effects of invasions of the tenth and eleventh centuries was the separation of the church from local, secular life, as priests and bishops sought protection from Rome. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Serfs owed their lords goods, labor, and military service. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Pregnant women were granted special privileges by manor lords. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Fiefs became hereditary by the ninth century, which aided lords in consolidating control over their fiefs and vassals. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In exchange for counsel and military service, lords gave their vassals land and monetary aid. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Charlemagne married several times and kept concubines, but later, the church encouraged monogamy. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Peasant families rarely owned their own strips of land. Instead, they collectively tended to their lords' fields. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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In the feudal system, a nobleman could be both a lord to someone below him and a vassal to someone above him. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By the end of the tenth century, economic, political and religious institutions across Europe had severely deteriorated in large part because of the Viking, Muslim and Magyar invasions. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By the eleventh century, Viking raids came to an end because a united front of European kingdoms crushed the Vikings' homelands. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Empire which Charlemagne founded was soon fragmented because no mechanism existed by which a clear successor to the Empire could be determined. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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