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Vocabulary Activity
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The Byzantine Empire and Emerging Europe
Content Vocabulary
Directions: Answer each of the following questions. Include in your answers the vocabulary
words in parentheses.
1.
The word procurator is related to the word procure, which comes from a Latin word
meaning “to take care of.” What did a procurator take care of? (procurator)
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2.
Explain the difference between the clergy and the laity in the Christian church.
(clergy, laity)
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3.
How and why had the practice of monasticism changed by the time of Benedict? In
addition to becoming a missionary, what other responsibilities could a monk fulfill?
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4.
What is the literal meaning of the word wergild? Explain the functions of the wergild
and the ordeal in Germanic law. (wergild, ordeal)
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5.
What was the Byzantine emperor Leo III’s position on icons? How did the argument
that icons led to idolatry contribute to the growing split between the Eastern Orthodox
Church and the Western Catholic Church? (icon, idolatry)
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6.
The word patriarch comes from the Latin word pater, which means “father.” What was
a patriarch in the Byzantine state? What was his role in relation to the emperor?
(patriarch)
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Which of these roles did a nun share? (monk, monasticism, missionary, nun)
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Vocabulary Activity
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Cont.
The Byzantine Empire and Emerging Europe
Directions: For each word in the left column, write the letter of the correct definition in the
right column. (plague, bishopric, inflation, abbess)
___ 7. plague
a. a rapid increase in prices
___ 8. bishopric
b. a group of Christian parishes; diocese
___ 9. inflation
c. the head of a convent
___ 10. abbess
d. an epidemic disease
Academic Vocabulary
Directions: Complete each sentence with the best choice from the word list below.
(transformation, legal, ensure, conversion, pursue, military)
transformation
legal
ensure
conversion
pursue
military
11. After a series of civil wars, the Roman Empire was stabilized by
a __________________ government whose soldiers kept order in the land.
__________________ a spiritual life.
13. The teachings of Jesus called for an inner __________________ in people’s spiritual
lives.
14. The spread of Christianity throughout Europe was made possible by the efforts of
monks, who worked to bring about the __________________ of non-Christians,
especially the Germanic peoples.
15. To keep the power of German nobles in check, Charlemagne sent messengers—the
missi dominici—to the local districts to __________________ that the counts were
obedient to the king.
16. Emperor Justinian’s most important accomplishment was to simplify a huge archive of
Roman __________________ materials.
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12. The first Christian monks were hermits who left civilization behind in order to
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Vocabulary Activity
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Cont.
The Byzantine Empire and Emerging Europe
Directions: Write S in front of each word that is a synonym (a word with the same
or nearly the same meaning) of the listed word and A for each word that is an antonym
(a word with an opposite or nearly opposite meaning). (excluded, enormous,
collapse, structure)
17. excluded
___ integrated
___ barred
___ incorporated
___ prohibited
___ included
___ rejected
18. enormous
___ minute
___ miniature
____ huge
___ tiny
___ gigantic
___ colossal
19. collapse
___ breakdown
___ restoration
____ renewal
___ disintegration
___ crash
___ dissolution
20. structure
___ random
___ arrangement
____ order
___ grouping
___ disorganization
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___ chaos