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In the Germanic tradition, law was created and administered by kings. |
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Germanic law assigned more value to child-bearing women than to post-menopausal women. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Theodore of Tarsus opposed the papacy's attempt to enhance its influence in Britain. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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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 |
| | B) | False |
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An Anglo-Saxon king required the approval of the Witan, a circle of wise men, in order to succeed to the throne. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Shire reeves, later called sheriffs, were accountable to earls, not the monarchy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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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 each consisted of a bishop and a nobleman. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Charlemagne used his relationship with the Islamic caliph, Harun Al Raschid, to overthrow the Byzantine Empress 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 |
| | B) | False |
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The reformers who established the Cluniac order wanted to free the monastery from the control of the papacy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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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 in part because of the mismanagement of Louis the Pious's sons. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Scandinavians became skilled seamen in part because they needed to supplement their agricultural produce. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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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 |
| | B) | False |
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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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Along with goods and labor, serfs owed their lords military service. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The power of lords over their vassals increased as fiefs became hereditary in the ninth century. |
| | 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 worked their own strips of land. Instead, they spent each day collectively tending to their lords' fields. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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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 |
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