Stratified Societies- Medieval World | Set 1
1. Fernand Braudel was a …………..historian.
2. Ancient history ended with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in …………… A.D.
3. The Roman emperor ……………..decided to tolerate Christianity (313 A.D.)
4. …………founded the city of Constantinople as the empire’s second capital (330 A.D.)
5. The last emperor of the western Roman Empire, ……………., was deposed by the
Heruli king Odoacer (476 A.D.).
6. Ottoman Turks extinguished the Eastern Roman Empire by capturing
…………………(1453 A.D.),
7. Columbus first set foot in ………………..in 1492 A.D.
8. ………………….caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” on
the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517 A.D.).
9. Martin Luther caused a split in western Christianity by posting his “95 Theses” on
the door of the castle church in……………, Germany (1517 A.D.).
10. The Moslem calendar begins with the hegira, Mohammed’s journey from Mecca to
Medina in ……………….. A.D.
11. The Roman calendar began with Rome’s founding in …………… B.C.
12. The Greek Seleucid Empire used a chronology that began with Seleucus Nicator’s
occupation of ……………..in 311 B.C.
13. Hegel’s thoughts on world history are expressed in The Philosophy of History, based
on lectures first given in……………..
14. ……………………The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was
published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
15. Who wrote the Decline of the West?
16. ‘A Study of History’ is the work of ………………….
17. In fact, the concept of periodisation in world history had its beginnings in the
writings of the humanist writer, …………..in the 14th century.
18. ……………..may be considered as the first writer who has made a tri-partite
division to the world history for the first time.
19. ………used the tri-partite periodisation in his ‘History of Florentine People’ (1442)
20. The tri-partite periodisation became popular after the German historian ………………..used it in his ‘Universal History Divided into Ancient, Medieval and New Period’ (1683).
21. The most commonly given start date in European history for medieval period is …………………. AD, in the year Romulus Augustus the last Roman emperor in the West abdicated.
22. The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in …………… AD is commonly used
as the end date of the medieval world.
23. Henri Pirenne was a ……………….historian.
24. Johan Huizinga was a …………………historian.
25. It was during the Early Middle Ages that the world witnessed the rise, growth and decay of the ………………dynasty stared by Emperor Charlemagne, which could fill the power vacancy that had existed since the fall of the Roman Empire.
26. ……………….. court was the centre of a cultural revival that is sometimes referred to as the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’, till its break up towards the end of the 10th century.
27. The religious wars known as the …………….also took place during the medieval period.
28. ………………was probably the first to use the tripartite division to Indian history in
the early 19th century.
29. Instead of ancient, medieval and modern categories ….deliberately used Hindu,
Muslim and British periods.
30. Prior to Mill, the Romantic minded Orientalists like ……………..and later Maximum
Muller had valorized the ‘Hindu period’ through a study of Sanskrit tests.
31. The Battle of Plassey in…………….., which saw the beginning of the British rule in India.
32. The ambitious task, …………………had outlined – to present in ‘chronological order of successive changes in the means and relations of production’ – still remains unfinished.
33. After the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, the
Eastern Roman empire or the Byzantine Empire with ……………..as its capital was formed which remained for about a thousand years.
34. The Eastern Roman empire came to an end when the …………..conquered Constantinople in 1453 AD.
35. In the meanwhile, ……………..had founded the Carolingian dynasty in the
beginning of the 9th century which ruled the parts of modern France and Germany and a part of Italy.
36. ………………..can be described as a type of government in which political power is
exercised locally by private individuals rather than through the bureaucracy of a centralized state.
37. After the death of the prophet in……………., the Arab kingdom developed into a
vast empire, comprising of Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran Central Asia, North Africa and Spain.
38. By the middle of the 7th century, centralized power was established in the Arab
empire by the……………….
39. Umayyad was overthrown by the Abbasids in 750 AD, who made
……………….their capital.
40. The Abbasid rule lasted till the 11th century when they were ousted from power by
the ……………...
41. The Turks controlled the Arab empire thereafter till the 15th century when the ……………….became the rulers of the Arab territories.
42. In India, after the break-up of the ……………Empire in the 5th century, much
number of regional powers came into existence.
43. The most powerful three regional kingdom of ………….India and Deccan during
the period between 8th and 10th centuries were the Rashtrakutas, the Pratiharas and the Palas, who fought each other for supremacy.
44. Several Rajput States also emerged during this period in North India, especially
after the decline of the……………...
45. The decline of the Chola power in the ………….. century gave way for the upcoming
of several regional kingdoms.
46. The Delhi Sultanate was established by the Turks in the 13th century, which lasted
till the …………..century.
47. The ……………..rulers were successful in bringing the entire north India under their
control especially in the 14th century.
48. From the middle of the 14th century to the …………century Deccan and some parts
of South India was dominated by the Vijayanagara and Bahmini kingdoms.
49. Major part of the Indian sub-continent was brought under one ruler by the
…………………in the 16th and 17th centuries.
50. The Mughal Empire reached its highest point during the reign of its last powerful
ruler,………………….
51. The Mughal Empire had already started its course of political disintegration during
the later part of…………………’s reign.
52. The early medieval period in the history of China was marked by the efficient rule of
the …………………dynasty, which had lasted from 7th century to early 10th century.
53. The ………………dynasty came in top dominance after the fall of the Tang and they
ruled China for about three centuries.
54. After the fall of the Sung dynasty China was over-run by the ……………..for the next hundred years, who at this time had dominated many parts of Asia and Europe.
55. In the 17th century China was dominated by the………………, whose rule continued
up to the beginning of the 20th century.
56. The system based on agrarian order developed first in Western Europe during the
early medieval period and then spread to the other parts of Europe is called………………..
57. Even before the fall of the ancient Roman Empire in the …………… century, the Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire had come into existence.
58. The Byzantine Empire remained in power, though nominally till …………….AD when it was completely overpowered by the Turks.
59. Emperor ……………..had split the Roman Empire into two separate administrative regions, the Eastern and Western halves, towards the end of the third century itself.
60. Emperor …………….re-founded the old city of Byzantium as the new capital of the Eastern half with a new name, Constantinople.
61. Justinian’s costly wars with the …………….completely routed out his desire for a united Roman empire.
62. After…………………’s death external threats to his empire intensified, the Persians from the east and Slavs, Hungarians, Huns etc. from the north.
63. The 11th and 12th centuries were a period of relative calm as far as the ………………Empire was concerned.
64. The external attacks and internal rivalries once again intensified in the 14th century,
which eventually led to the capture of Constantinople by the………………….
65. The Ostrogoths were the barbarians in…………..
66. The Visigoths were the barbarians in…………….
67. During the period a nucleus of power unfolded in northern Gaul and developed into a kingdom called Austrasia and Neustria, ruled for almost three centuries by a dynasty of kings called……………...
68. Charles Martal became the king and founded the Carolingian dynasty in the
……………. century.
69. Charles Martal’s successor, ……………..initiated a programme of systematic expansion that would unify a large portion of Europe.
70. The imperial coronation of ……………….on the Christmas day of 800 is often regarded as a turning point in medieval European history because it filled a power vacancy that had existed since the fall of the ancient Roman Empire.
71. ……………… court in Aachen was the centre of cultural revival that is sometimes
referred to as the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’.
72. The term ……………..refers to the first system of governance established in the
Islamic state and represented the political authority.
73. In fact Caliphate was the first system of government established in Arabia after the death of the Prophet in ………….. AD.
74. The Caliphate rule in the Islamic world stretches over a vast span of time from 632 to 1924, from the death of the Prophet to the year when Mustaffa Kamal Pasha of …………….officially abolished the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire and founded the Republic of Turkey.
75. After the rule of the pious caliphs, the caliphate was ruled by the Umayyad
Caliphate, followed by the……………..
76. …………….a relative of Uthman and the governor of Syria captured power of the
caliphate after the death of Ali and founded the Umayyad caliphate or the Umayyad dynasty.
77. …………….transformed the caliphate into a hereditary office.
78. The internal problems finally led to the collapse of the Umayyads and the beginning
of the Abbasid Caliphate in …………….. AD.
79. The reign of ……………….is often characterized as the ‘golden period’ of the
Abbasid caliphate.
80. The successors of Harun al Rashid were not able to resist the external attacks of
the……………., who were making encroaches on to the Abbasid Empire.
81. The Mongols under their leader, Hulagu Khan conquered………….., the capital of
the Abbasids and executed the last Abbasid Caliph, Al-Mutasim in the year 1258.
82. The Mongols under their leader, Hulagu Khan conquered Baghdad, the capital of
the Abbasids and executed the last Abbasid Caliph, Al-Mutasim in the year……………...
83. The powerful Ottomans defeated the Mamluk Sultan in ………….. and took control
of the Arab land.
84. It is reported that the last Caliph at Cairo surrendered the Caliphate to the Ottoman ruler and then onwards the Ottomans began to be known as the Caliphs, which lasted up to…………..
85. The peak of the ……………..power occurred in the reign of Harun al Rashid, who relied heavily on his Vazir or prime minister.
86. …………….is the office occupied by the Pope as the spiritual head of the Roman
Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome.
87. After the Byzantine domination, when Rome was threatened by invaders, the Pope
went to the ………….king for help.
88. ………………., the Carolingian king went to Rome where he was crowned by the
Pope on the Christmas day of 800 and further the Pope acclaimed him as the emperor.
89. The imperial crown once held by the Carolingian emperors was disputed between
their fractured heirs, but none emerged victorious until Otto I, the Holy Roman emperor invaded………...
90. …………..became a constituent kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire in 962.
91. While Urban II remained as the Pope in Rome, Clement VII was made the Pope at
Avignon in…………... This is known as the ‘western schism’.
92. It was Pope Urban II who had preached the first Crusade in…………….., the holy
wars or armed pilgrimages intended to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim control.
93. The term ………………is generally used to characterize the social, economic and
political system that had existed in Europe in the medieval period.
94. The term feudalism is derived from the ………….word ‘feodum’ which means a ‘fief’ or a piece of land.
95. One of the most commonly accepted definition of feudalism is that of the historian, ………….., who calls it the ‘feudal society’.
96. About 500 AD much of the Western Europe was left without a strong centralized
government, due to the breakdown of the ………….Empire.
97. In the 4th century, Emperor ……………..declared serfdom legal by requiring tenant
farmers to pay labour services to their lords.
98. The ……………..system had existed in the entire medieval West Asia is generally identified as the feudal practice.
99. ……………… was the land granted to the army officials by the rulers of the Islamic empire of the Caliphate, for limited periods, in lieu of regular salary.
100. The holder of the …………….was known as the MUKTI or MUKTA.