TEST BYZANTINE EMPIREQuestions ___1. ___2. ___3. ___4. ___5. ___6.

Michael VII Ducas was able to recover much lost territory for the empire. Pope John XI announced the First Crusade. Mehmet II had his ships go over a hill in order to get them into the Golden Horn. The First Crusade was successful in recapturing Jerusalem. The First Crusade occurred in 1012. John II Comnenus was so hated by his people that they executed him as painfully as possible by cutting off all his limbs one at a time. ___7. Which of the following is false concerning Zeno? a. He brilliantly solved the Monophysite issue. b. He was the emperor in the East when Rome fell in 476 AD. c. Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths ruled Italy as Zeno's viceroy. d. He locked Basilicus up in a dry reservoir. ___8. Anastasius picked one of his nephews to be his successor. ___9. Which of the following is false concerning Justinian I? a. His reign was a period of cultural revival. b. He married an ex-prostitute. c. He defeated the Persians at the battle of Sassanid . d. There were terrible riots during his administration. e. He recaptured part of Italy for the empire. f. He built the great church, Hagia Sophia. ___10. Which of the following is false concerning Heraclius? a. During his reign the Persians owned the True Cross and had captured Jerusalem. b. During his reign the Moslems began their conquests of territories. c. During his reign Sergius, the patriarch of Constantinople, put forth the doctrine of Monothelitism. d. His greatest love was sailing in the Golden Horn. e. He decreed that Greek was the official language of the empire. f. He married his niece. ___11. Monothelitism was the idea that Christ had two natures but only one divine energy. ___12. In the seventh century the Byzantine empire was the heart of Christianity. ___13. Heraclius and Martina reigned together successfully. ___14. During the reign of Constans II there was a slow down in Moslem conquests. ___15. Constans II supported Pope Martin I's stand on the Monothelitist controversy. ___16. Constans II help restore the decaying Pantheon. ___17. The Byzantine emperor was seen as Christ's representative on earth. ___18. Which of the following is false? a. The penalty for any grocer who made dishonest measurements was to have his hand cut off. b. There were many medical services provided by several different organizations in Constantinople. c. The Byzantine government stored wheat as a protection against famine. d. Over 45 of the 88 Byzantine emperors died violent deaths. ___19. Constantinople was established as a capital by Constantine the Great in 330. ___20. The Bosphorus Straits separate the Mediterranean from the Caspian Sea. ___21. The Roman popes generally treated unorthodox religious groups more leniently than the Byzantine emperors. ___22. The main issue decided at the Sixth Ecumenical Council of the church held at Chalcedon was clerical marriage. ___23. With the help of Greek fire, Constantine IV withstood a five-year Moslem siege. ___24. Which of the following is false concerning Justinian II? a. He had his brother executed. b. He had all of the Slave families in Bythinia executed and thrown into the sea. c. He had his cousin drawn and quartered. d. He had the Patriarch blinded and exiled. e. He roasted seven of the leading citizens of Cherson. ___25. Tiberius III had excrement thrown at him before he was executed. ___26. Which of the following is false concerning Emperor Leo III? a. Pope Gregory II supported him against the eastern monks. b. He started the Iconoclast controversy. c. He was a general. d. His dates of reign are 717-741. ___27. Irene spoiled her son Constantine VI with too much affection.

___28. Irene agreed to marry Pepin III. ___29. Irene was executed by hanging. ___30. When Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne in 800 as emperor in the West, the Byzantines rejoiced because order had been restored. ___31. Emperor Nicephorus helped convert the Bulgars to Christianity and thereby established close ties with them. ___32. Michael I had chariot races in the hippodrome with lions and tigers. ___33. Justinian I left the empire in good shape financially. ___34. Justin II persecuted the Monophysites. ___35. Tiberius II Constantine died after eating poison in a dish of mulberries. ___36. Maurice was loved by his soldiers and was very successful in his military ventures. ___37. Which of the following is false concerning the emperor Phocas? a. He was very successful against the Persians. b. He was executed. c. He increased the level of torture in the empire. d. He burned his best general. ___38. Leo V's wife gave him advice that saved his throne. ___39. The magnificent toy of Theophilus had in it a golden organ. ___40. After iconoclasm Byzantine art became two dimensional. ___41. The number of Paulicans massacred under the persecutions of the regent Theodora was 33,000. ___42. The Regent Theodora was pushed aside by Basil. ___43. The patriarch Ignatius was one of the three castrated sons of Michael I. ___44. Emperor Alexander abdicated so he cold join a monastery. ___45. The Fourth Crusade was diverted to Constantinople because of an offer by the son of Isaac Angelus. ___46. On the Fourth Crusade the Republic of Venice offered to help the Byzantine Empire withstand the western siege. ___47. After the Fourth Crusade the West ruled Constantinople from 1204 to 1261. ___48. Michael VIII Paleologus agreed to submit to the pope because he was angry with the patriarch. ___49. Charles of Anjou continually threatened to attack Constantinople. ___50. Which of the following is false concerning Andronicus II Paleologus? a. His wife plotted against him. b. His reign saw the rise of the Seljuk Turks. c. He lost some territory to Charles of Anjou. d. His grandson forced him to abdicate. ___51. John Cantacuzenus was forced to abdicate by his son-in-law. ___52. Constantine VII was a good emperor. ___53. Romanus II was dominated by his wife Theophano. ___54. Nicephorus II Phocas was killed by his wife Theophano. ___55. Which of the following is false concerning John I Tzimisces? a. He was very successful as emperor. b. He had been Theophano's lover. c. He married his niece to the future king of Germany. d. He converted to Islam. ___56. Which of the following is false concerning Basil II? a. He was the greatest of the Byzantine emperor's. b. He probably poisoned John II Tzimisces. c. The Russian prince, Vladimir, was converted during his reign. d. He instituted land reforms. e. He and his wife detested each other. ___57. Constantine VIII sent his daughter Zoe to a monastery. ___58. Romanus III drowned in the royal baths. ___59. The date for the fall of Constantinople is 1453. ___60. Emperor Leo III donated the lands to the pope that became the Papal States. ___61. Alexius Comnenus I reorganized the army. ___62. Irene was the wife of Leo IV. ___63. Irene was not an iconoclast. ___64. The people of Constantinople insisted that Michael V abdicate and that Zoe and her sister Theodora be made co-rulers. ___65. It was during the reign of Zoe's husband, Constantine IX, that the final split between the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church occurred. ___66. Which of the following practices did Michael Cerularius not condemn? a. Transubstantiation

b. living in communion with the Jews c. fasting on Saturday d. unleavened bread in the Eucharist ___67. Constantine X Ducas was a military genius. ___68. Which of the following is false concerning Romanus Diogenes? a. He suffered a terrible defeat against the Turks at the Battle of Manzikert. b. He had his eyes gauged out. c. He loved to race in the hippodrome. d. His wife had been married before and had promised not to remarry. e. During his reign the last Byzantine holdings in Italy were lost. ___69. Manuel Comnenus overspent his military energies by continual wars in the east. ___70. Andronicus I Comnenus married a 12-year-old widow. ___71. Andronicus I Comnenus died in a hunting accident. ___72. Which of the following is false concerning Michael III? a. He sent his mother to a monastery. b. He once ran 18 miles in 3 hours to show his subjects how fit he was. c. He exiled the patriarch Ignatius. d. He was killed as he lay drunk in bed. e. During his reign the pope and patriarch mutually excommunicated each other. f. He allowed another man to marry his mistress. ___73. The Donation of Constantine was used by the patriarch of Constantinople to support his claim of equality with the pope. ___74. The emperor Basil I had been a stable boy. ___75. Basil made the patriarch Ignatius co-emperor. ___76. Which of the following is false concerning Leo VI? a. He brought the iconoclast controversy back to life. b. He made his fifteen-year-old brother the patriarch. c. He was married four times. d. He made a patriarch abdicate. ___77. The Third Crusade was the one that Richard the Lion Hearted was on. ___78. During the reign of Isaac Angelus Jerusalem was lost to the Moslems. ___79. Frederick Barbarossa was a French king. ___80. Which of the following did not happen in the reign of John V Paleologus? a. The Council of Trent was held. b. The Serbs made great territorial gains in the west. c. The Black Death killed eight-ninths of the population of Constantinople. d. An earthquake allowed the Turks to move into Europe. ___81. Manuel II Paleologus spent much time in Europe trying to get help from the West. ___82. During the reign of John VIII Paleologus the population of Constantinople was about 100,000. ___83. Pope Martin V refused to help John VIII Paleologus in any way. ___84. Caesaropapism is the idea that there should be a separation of church and state. ___85. Which of the following is false concerning Constantine V? a. He argued that if a painter depicts Christ as only human he commits heresy. b. He was bisexual. c. He argued that if a painter depicts Christ as human and divine then he commits heresy because he gives the divine a limiting form. d. The iconodules called him "dung name." e. He blinded his brother-in-law. f. He was executed by a group of church leaders. g. During his reign Pope Stephen II made an alliance with Pepin the Short, king of the Franks.