WH Flashcards
(50 cards)
What is the name of the mountain range which divides Europe from Asia?
d.) Ural
Which of the following is a true statement about the Russian historical and cultural consequences of the Eurasian plains and the mountain range cited above?
c.) they posed no great obstacle to Asian migrations into Russia
During the Middle Ages, Russia (like Western Europe) was battered by invasions. Russia had never been a part of the Roman Empire. However its early rulers did look towards the Byzantine world, adapting much of its advanced civilization.
a.) true
Which of the following was NOT one of the three broad regions which shaped Russian life, in the Middle Ages?
c.) Southwestern Costal Rim
What people migrated into southern Russia, during Roman times?
a.) Slavs
Which of the following pushed into Western Europe and Russia in the 700-800s?
e.) both b.) and c.)
Which city was established, by Vikings, to facilitate trade with the Byzantine Empire?
b.) Kiev
Which of the following developed a Greek letter based written language for the Slavic peoples, so they could read the Bible?
e.) both a.) and b.)
The Byzantine Emperor, Theodora, sent the Cyril & devised Greek to Slavic language, for the purpose of:
a.) convert Slavs to Christianity
Which of the following is NOT true of Ivan III?
c.) Developed a tradition of sharing power with the Russian Orthodox Church
Which of the following became a haven for Jews fleeing persecution, in the West and by 1650 developed the largest population of Jewish peoples?
d.) Poland
Which of the following saw the last steppes right to the last man against the advance of the Ottoman Empire, in 1397?
c.) Serbia
Which of the following is NOT true of Ivan IV?
c.) Developed a tradition of sharing power with the Russian Orthodox Church
Islam began:
d.) Battle of Yarmuk
What is the meaning of the Arabic word Islam?
c.) Submission
Who was the first successor to the Prophet, as the leader of Islam?
a.) Abu Bakr
Which of the following is correctly associated with the Islamic division between the Shiite and the Sunni?
a.) The Shiite asserted the view that only the good Muslim (or the tribe of Muhammad) could be the Caliph.
Which of the following is NOT true about the extent of the Muslim conquests?
d.) Southwest Asia to extensive grasslands including all the lands of the Turkish Empire
Which of the following factors did NOT account for the military success of the Muslim conquerors?
d.) Both b.) and c.
Where did surviving members of the Umayyad family escape and establish a lasting Islamic (Moorish) Caliphate?
d.) Spain
Which group will win control of the Abbasid Empire, and in 1055 was using its Caliph as a figure head?
a.) Seljuk
Which of the following is NOT a business innovation attributed to Muslim merchants?
d.) Development of coined money
What Persian-Muslim scholar, astronomer and philosopher/poet was the author of the Rubaiyat?
c.) Omar Khayyam
What Islamic empire captured Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul?
c.) Ottoman
