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question 59

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
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• A)Multipart collection of laws and legal commentary issued in the sixth century by the emperor Justinian.
• B)Geographic administrative districts of the church, each under the authority of a bishop and centered on a cathedral.
• C)A religious practice or belief judged unacceptable by church officials.
• D)Heads of the Roman Catholic Church, who became political as well as religious authorities. The period of this leader's term in office is called a pontificate.
• E)Another name for the Eastern Christian Church, over which emperors continued to have power.
• F)Certain rituals of the church believed to act as a conduit of God's grace, such as baptism.
• G)The conflict over the veneration of religious images in the Byzantine Empire.
• H)Compensatory payment for death or injury set in many barbarian law codes.
• I)Ritual in which Christians asked a priest for forgiveness for sins and the priest set certain actions to atone for the sins.
• J)People who were venerated for having lived or died in a way that was spiritually heroic or noteworthy.
• K)A dynasty of rulers that decisively unified the Franks under the reign of Clovis (ca. 481-511) and ruled the Frankish kingdom until the seventh century.
• L)A dynasty of rulers that took over the Frankish kingdom from the Merovingians in the seventh century; the term derives from the Latin word for "Charles," the name of several members of this dynasty.
• M)An arrangement ratified in 843 that divided Charlemagne's territories among his three surviving grandsons; their kingdoms set the pattern for the modern states of Germany, France, and Italy.

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