7.1 Early Middle Ages

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Rome began to decline

• due to massive debt

• due to political problems and corruption

• due to massive natural disasters

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Rome was divided into two parts the ____ and  ____.

• East and West

• North and South

• Old and New

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Constantinople’s location made it great for 

• Great for controlling trade.

• Hard for Christianity

• An easy target for attackers

• Hard to defend

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The Corpus Juris Civilis had a legal and political impact for the Byzantine empire, it  was called ___

• Hammurabi’s code

• Justinian code.

• The Law of Twelve Tables

• D.Hadrian’s Law.

Multiple Choice

What is the thousand-year span between the fall of the Roman empire and the Renaissance?

• Age of Discovery

• Enlightenment

• Middle Ages

• Christian Ages

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Named after Constantine, Constantinople became the new capital of the

• Etruscan empire.

• Byzantine empire.

• Ottoman empire.

• D.Bactrian Empire

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Determined to revive ancient Rome ___, expanded the Byzantine empire to its greatest size

• Constantine

• Maxentius

• Marcus Aurelius

• Justinian

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The Byzantine empire served as a _ for Western Europe by absorbing the brunt of invasions from the east.

• Colony

• Buffer

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

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Western Rome __

• continued to live on forever

• was conquered by the Germanic Tribes in 476 AD

• was conquered by the Islamic invaders in 632AD

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The early Middle Ages was a harsh and difficult time for the peoples of Europe, so, some historians called it the _

• Harsh Ages

• Black Ages

• Dark Ages

• Medieval Era

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Between 400 and 700, _ carved Western Europe into small kingdoms.

• Barbarians

• Romans

• Byzantines

• Germanic Tribes

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The pope and the Christian kingdoms in Europe watched with alarm as _ armies overran Christian lands.

• Barbarian

• Muslim

• Byzantine

• Germanic

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At the _ in 732, Christian warriors triumphed; Muslims advanced no farther into Western Europe.

• Battle of Tours

• Battle of Hastings

• Battle of Hastings

• Battle of Trafalgar