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HIST IIII Exam #3 Study Guide ExamQuestion And Answers 2024
Gudrid and Thorfinn Karlsefni - correct answers✅A
couple originally from Iceland who settled in about 1000
in Greenland and then Canada and later returned to
Iceland.
Byzantine Empire - correct answers✅(476-1453)
Eastern half of the Roman Empire after the loss of the
Western half in 476. Sometimes simply called Byzantium.
Patriarch - correct answers✅In the 400s and 500s, the
highest-ranking bishop of the four major Christian church
centers at Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and
Antioch.
Pope - correct answers✅In the 400s and 500s, the
pope was the highest-ranking bishop in Rome, and by
1000, the pope was recognized as leader of the Catholic
Church in Rome.
Justinian Corpus of Civil Law - correct
answers✅Consisting of the Code, the Digest, and the
Institutes, this compendium preserved the core of Roman
law for succeeding ages.
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Plague - correct answers✅Refers to two distinct
illnesses, bubonic plague and the almost always fatal
pneumonic plague, forming two phases of an outbreak.
Iconoclasts - correct answers✅Members of a
movement calling for the destruction of images of Jesus,
Mary, and the saints because they were believed to
violate the Second Commandment of the Hebrew Bible.
Frankish kingdom - correct answers✅The homeland of
the Franks, including much of modern-day France,
Germany, and the land in between.
Wergeld - correct answers✅Literally "man-payment,"
an important legal concept that set the monetary value of
a human life. The function of wergeld payments was to
prevent an endless cycle of killing and counter-killing
among feuding families.
War-band - correct answers✅The most important social
unit among Germanic-speaking peoples. In times of war,
warriors formed bands behind a leader, who gave them
horses, armor, a place to live, and a share of plunder.
Merovingian dynasty - correct answers✅A Frankish
dynasty (481-751) in modern-day France and Germany
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whose founder, Clovis (r. 481-511), converted to
Christianity and ruled as a war-band leader.
Carolingian dynasty - correct answers✅(751-ca. 1000)
An important aristocratic family that overthrew the
Merovingian rulers in 751. Their most powerful ruler was
Charlemagne. After his death, the empire split into three
sections, each under a different Carolingian ruler.
Viking - correct answers✅Term used for those
Scandinavians who left home to loot coastal towns and
who were most active between 793 and 1066.
Longboat - correct answers✅Boat used by the Vikings
to make raids; made of wood and equipped with both
oars and sails, they were the fastest mode of transport
before 1000.
Danelaw - correct answers✅Region including much of
northern and eastern England, over which the
Scandinavians maintained tenuous control between 866
and 954.
The Vinland Sagas - correct answers✅Term for Erik the
Red's Saga and The Greenlanders' Saga, composed in Old
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