AP World History Ch 16

Which of the following statements about Constantinople is NOT true?

• It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire.
• It was constructed by Constantine.
• It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on the Sasanid empire in Persia.
• It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on Germanic tribes on the Danube.

One important political feature of the Byzantine state was its

• docile acceptance of Rome's superiority.
• republican governmental structure that resembled early Rome.
• tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor.
• division of power under the tetrarchs.

The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors is known as

• Byzantine.
• caesaropapism.
• Corpus iuris civilis.
• secularism.

Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to the

• European struggle between church and state.
• split between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
• attempt by later Roman emperors to abolish the papacy.
• system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority.

 Byzantion's major advantage was its

• position as the greatest trading center of the Greek world.
• huge army.
• strategic position on the Bosporus.
• status as the most populous city in the Mediterranean basin.

The wife of Justinian, who proved to be an invaluable adviser, was

• Belisarius.
• Livia.
• Hagia Sophia.
• Theodora.

In 802, what gift did Charlemagne receive from the Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid?

• a thousand pounds of gold
• a golden chandelier
• a terra-cotta army
•  an elephant named Abu al-Abbas

Theodora's career before marrying Justinian was as a

• striptease artist.
• shop owner.
•  Church cleric—one of the few women to hold this position.
• mother superior in a nunnery.

 One of the causes of Byzantine resurgence was the political innovation wherein a general was given military and civil control over an imperial province, or

• theme.
• Sasanid.
• C. corpus.

Hagia Sophia was

• the wife of Justinian, who proved to be a wise adviser.
• the magnificent church at Constantinople.
• the legal foundation for Justinian's code.
• the central trading city on the silk roads.