Exam 2 Chapters 9-13

Question 1

Central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God. It is widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language.

Answer 1

Qur’n (Koran)

Question 2

Shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Lying below the dome is the sacred rock that some identify as the foundation stone of Solomon’s temple.

Answer 2

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

Question 3

Multi-volume work distinguishes between early city of human kind and the heavenly city that is the eternal dwelling place for the christian soul.

Answer 3

City of God

Question 4

Epic poem and first monumental literary composition in a European vernacular language. Tale of Daring Scandinavia Prince.

Answer 4

Beowulf

Question 5

Behive like mound of earth encased by brick or stone- derived from prehistoric burials.

Answer 5

Stupas

Question 6

Associated with persian sufis

Answer 6

Whirling Dervishes

Question 7

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Answer 7

Allegory

Question 8

Main church in Constantinople.

Answer 8

Hagia Sophia

Question 9

a musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sound box with numerous strings stretched across it, placed horizontally and played with the fingers and a plectrum.

Answer 9

Zither

Question 10

an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.

Answer 10

Song of Rowland

Question 11

A fictitious tale of adventure that deals with knights, kings, and ladies acting under the impulse of love, religious faith , or he desire for adventure. Most popular form of literary entertainment 1200-1500.

Answer 11

The Medieval Romance

Question 12

Archaeologist excavated a 7th century Anglo Saxon grave. Undisturbed ship burial.

Answer 12

Sutton Hoo

Question 13

Ornamental containers that housed relics- remains of saints and martyrs, piece of the cross.

Answer 13

Reliquary

Question 14

Enlightened one.

Answer 14

Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

Question 15

Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. Wrote the Divine comedy.

Answer 15

Dante Alighieri

Question 16

Wrote three visionary treatises.

Answer 16

Hildegard

Question 17

Levied new taxes
Unsuccessful effort to revive a money economy.
Tolerance for all religions including Christians.
Moved capital from Rome to Byzantium.

Answer 17

Constantine

Question 18

Ashoka was an Indian emperor who built Dhamek Stupa. Spread of Buddhism.

Answer 18

King Ashoka

Question 19

Founder of the Benedictine order. Wrote reform of monasteries.

Answer 19

St. Benedict

Question 20

Most famous and influential parisian master of the 13th century. Spent his lifetime studying reason and revelation, he wrote the summa Theologica.

Answer 20

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 21

Patron sait of translators.

Answer 21

Jerome

Question 22

Renounced his life of luxury and dedicated himself to preching and serving the poor. Icon of humility.

Answer 22

St. Francis of Assisi

Question 23

Most profound and most influential- greatest christian philosopher of christian antiquity.

Answer 23

Augustine of Hippo

Question 24

St. Benedict’s sister. Became the abbess of a monastery. Refuge for female intellectuals, an alternative for marriage.

Answer 24

Scholastica

Question 25

Young Jewish rabbi from the city of Nazareth.

Answer 25

Jesus

Question 26

Wife of Justinian. Former dancer and prostitute. Capable tough-minded, added strength.

Answer 26

Theodora

Question 27

Muslim/Persian mathematician.

Answer 27

Al-Khwariziml

Question 28

Crowned emperor of Roman Empire in 800 by Pope Leo III. He established a system or education, stabilized the economy, and welcomed Jewish immigrants to provide a merchant class for commerce.

Answer 28

Charlemagne

Question 29

was an apostle who taught the gospel of the Christ to the 1st-century world

Answer 29

Paul

Question 30

Founder of Islam

Answer 30

Muhammad

Question 31

devotional practice of individuals who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship

Answer 31

Christian Monasticism

Question 32

is a Abrahamic monotheistic religion that upholds that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God. Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet of God.

Answer 32

Islam

Question 33

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

Answer 33

Feudalism

Question 34

8th & 9th centuries. Conflict led to Schism (Split). Roman Catholic Church (West) Vs Eastern Orthodox Church (East). West against use of icons in worship and devotion. East used devotional images.

Answer 34

Iconoclastic Controversy

Question 35

the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son.

Answer 35

Primgeniture

Question 36

is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular receiving of the sacraments.

Answer 36

Excommuniction

Question 37

the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities, based on Aristotelian logic and the writings of the early Church Fathers and having a strong emphasis on tradition and dogma.

Answer 37

Scholasticism