QUESTIONS ON MODERN HISTORY. CHAPTER I. CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALL OF THE SEC. 1.-The Gothic Kingdom of Italy. 1. What is said of the Visigoths in Spain? 2. What, of the Ostrogoths? 8. What result followed Justinian's partial ity to one of the factions? 9. How did this happen? 10. How did Justinian restore order? 3. What tribes came from the German 14. What was done before the armament set Forests? 4. What is said of them? 5. What tribes were still more barbarous? 6. For what were the Germanic tribes remarkable? sail? 15. What happened to Gelimer? 16. How did he console himself? 17. What afforded Belisarius a pretext for at tacking Italy? 7. From what part of Europe did the Scla- 18. How did Theodotus act? vonic tribes come? 8. How did they resemble the Tartars? 9. Their form of government? 19. How did his subjects treat him? 21. His course afterwards? 10. How long did the court of Constantino-22. How did the bishop of Rome act? ple remain in obscurity? 11. Who restored its supremacy 12. How was Zeno made emperor? 15. What excited hostilities between him and 16. How was peace obtained by Zeno? 19. What city sustained a long siege? 21. How did Theodoric secure his conquest? 24. The consequence of this? 26. How did he die? and at what age? SEC. 2.-Reign of Justinian. 1. Who was Justin? 2. What office did he hold? 3. How did he secure the throne? 4. Whom did he make his associate? 5. Whom did Justinian marry? 6. Her character? 1. Mention a singular folly of the Eastern 44. His success? Empire. 45. How was Italy governed after this? 3. What lawyer was appointed to prepare 20. How did Justinian attempt to obviate the code? 4. His qualifications for this duty? 5. The instructions given to the commission? 6. How long were they employed in this Herculean undertaking? 7. What more difficult work yet remained to be performed? 8. To whom was it entrusted, and what powers were given him? 9. The recommendation of the emperor? 10. How many books did the code contain? 11. How many, the Digest, or Pandects? 12. Why so called? 13. How many years did it occupy? 14. How many laws did it contain? 15. How many volumes was volumes was it necessary to examine, in order to prepare it? 16. State the substance of the emperor's de charged? 18. What is said of it? 19. Were these works perfect? 20. What were the Novels? 21. How many of them were there? 22. How long were these law volumes lost? 23. When, how, and by whom, discovered? 24. The use that has been made of them? SEC. 4.-History of the Silk Trade. 1. How was silk first obtained in Europe? 2. What nations had the first monopoly of it ? 3. What were silk robes first called? 6. Show the difficulties of its importation from China? 7. What is mentioned as a proof of Julius Caesar's magnificent spectacles? 8. The price of silk at Rome ? 9. What law was made in the reign of Tiberius? 10. What curious circumstance is mentioned, in the history of silk? 11. The decision of the Sonnite Doctors? 12. Who was the first Roman emperor, that wore a silk garment? 21. this inconvenience? What unforeseen event secured to him his great object? 22. What unnoticed fact in natural theology is mentioned? 23. How did these monks carry the silkworms' eggs to Constantinople? 24. What singular circumstance shows the success of the Greeks in the manufac ture of silk? 25. How was the Sogdian trade annihilated? 26. How long did the Greeks monopolize the silk trade? 27. How was the manufacture of it extended in Europe? 28. To whom is France indebted for her present superiority in this trade? 29. Who endeavoured to introduce it into England? What anecdote is related, illustrative of the little real authority enjoyed by the Frank kings? 11. The extent of the kingdom of Clovis ? 12. By whom was he succeeded? 13. Relate the story of the death of Chlodomer's infant children? 14. Who succeeded Theodoric? 15. His character and exploits? 16. Under whom was all France again united? 17. Who succeeded him? 18. The state of the kingdom, during their reign? 19. Under whom was France once more united? 20. How did he punish Brunilda? 13. What had diminished the price of silk by 21. Who succeeded him? this time? 22. His character, &c., and why canonized? 23. Who were the real sovereigns of France, | 7. How many followers did they bring with during the reign of his successors? 24. Who was the greatest of these nominal ministers? 25. Who was Charles Martel? 26. What rendered his name illustrious? 27. For what victory is he still more justly celebrated? 28. His successor ? them? 8. What induced them to send for more? 9. How did they treat the Britons? 10. Where are their descendants now? 11. How long did the struggle last? 12. What was the Saxon heptarchy ? 13. In which of these kingdoms was the Christian religion first established? 29. The name of the dynasty, that suc- 14. Mention the circumstance that induced ceeded the Merovingian? SEC. 6.-The Lombard Monarchy. 1. By whom, and why, were the Lombards encouraged to settle on the frontiers of the empire? 2. Who became head of the Lombards? 3. In what war did he engage? 4. How did he treat Cunimund? 5. The real object of Alboin's ambition? 6. What led to this enterprise? 7. On what condition did the Lombards resign their lands to the Avars? 8. What imprudent act did the Empress Sophia commit? 9. The consequence of it? 10. What city alone resisted Alboin? 11. Why was it spared' 12. The end of Alboin? 13. Who succeeded him? 14. His character and end? 15. The nature of the government established by his successor ? 16. What tended to reconcile the Italians to the supremacy of the Lombards? 17. What ambitious design did Luitprand conceive? 18. Of what did he take advantage? 19. Who instigated the Venetians against him? 24. Under what king did t. Lombards reach the summit of their greatness? 25. By whom was Astulphus subdued? 26. Who finally destroyed the power of the Lombards? 27. How was their king treated? Gregory to send missionaries into England. 15. Who was the head of the mission? 16. Who founded the monastery of St. Alban's? 17. Whom did he send to instruct Charlemagne ? 18. For what is France indebted to Alcuin? 19. What universities did he found? 20. Who was the first king of all England? 21. In what year did this great event occur? 22. How long after the first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain? CHAPTER II. THE RISE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SEC. 1.-Political and Social Condition of the East at the coming of Mohammed. 1. Who succeeded Justinian? 2. For what was his reign remarkable? 3. Who succeeded Justin II.? 4. His character? 5. Tiberius' successor ? 6. His character? 7. The condition of Persia at this time? 8. How did the Emperor Maurice act toward the royal fugitive? 9. How did Khosrú evince his gratitude? 10. Against whom did the emperor then turn his arms? 11. What led to a mutiny of his soldiers? 12. Who was Phocas? 13. How did he commence his reign? 14. What noble act did Maurice perform? 15. Who sanctioned the usurpation of Phocas? 16. What title did he receive from him in consequence? 17. What was the end of Phocas? 18. Who succeeded him? 28. Who received the iron crown of Lom- 19. How did Khosrú, king of Persia, act bardy? SEC. 7.-The Anglo-Saxons. 1. What befell the Britons when they were finally deserted by the Romans? 2. What imprudent advice did they adopt? 3. Whom did they invite over? 4. Who were the Saxons and Angles? 5 Their two chiefs? 6. Where did they land? when he heard of the death of Maurice, his benefactor? 20. What supplied him with allies in every province ? 21. What enterprise did his successes now encourage him to undertake? 22. How did the Jews act in Jerusalem? 23. The fate of Egypt: 24. How long was Khosrú's camp in sight of Constantinople? 25. What letter did he now receive? 26. Who was the writer? 27. How was the letter treated? 20. How has their temple of Meces been always regarded? 21. What tribe had the custody of it? 28. Mohammed's remark when he heard of 22. What consequence did this give them? this treatment? 29 How were the Avars employed at this time? 30. What purpose did the emperor form? 31. Who dissuaded him from executing it? 32. On what condition did Khosrú promise peace to the empire? 33. How was the emperor affected by this insult? 34. His first step? 35. What bold enterprise did he form? 36. Show what was his success. 37. How did Khosrú act during this desolation of his kingdom? 38. The consequences to himself of such conduct? 23. What gave a check to Christianity in Arabia ? 24. In what year did this happen? 25. How is Mecca situated? 26. Its soil and water, &c.? 39. What excuse did his son offer for his un-36. natural conduct? The literature of the Arabs? 37. How was a literary spirit kept up? 40. What trophy did Heraclius bring with 38. What was done with their best poems? 39. The title of their seven best poems? 40. How were they written? 41. Where kept? 42. Their history, what? 43. Their astronomy? 44. Their mechanical arts? 45. What four peculiarities has God given them? SEC. 3.-The Preaching of Mohammed. 1. Where was Mohammed born? 2. Who was his father? 3. His mother? 4. The religion of both? 5. His uncles, who? 6. Where did he become an orphan? 7. Whither did he go at the age of thir teen? 8. His course from this time? 9. The consequence of his mercantile talent? 10. Whom did he marry ? 11. What consideration did this give him? 9. Why has their country never been con- 12. What use did he immediately make of quered? 10. What parts have been conquered? 11. The physical and intellectual constitu tion of the Arab? 12. What is said of the camel? 13. Of the Arab horse ? 14. The ancient religion of the Arabs? 15. Their religious condition before the coming of Mohammed? his good fortune? 13. What did he do for his family? 14. What was he doing for the next fifteen years? 15. His yearly practice? 16. What made him acquainted with the principal forms of religion then prevailing? 16. What did an ancient father say of Ara-18. bia? 17. In what province were the principal cities, in remote ages? 18. The chief cities now? 17. The names of some of these sects? What led him to think himself a prophet? 19. To whom did he first announce his mission? 20. Did she recognize his claims? 21. Who followed her example? 19. What has always given Mecca import-22. What led them to believe in him so 31. How soon did he publicly proclaim him- 74. The effect produced by his presence? self a prophet? 32. How was he received? 75. In what war did he now engage? 76. The consequence of his success? 33. Under what circumstances did he make 77. How did he treat the Kaaba ? the avowal ? 34. How did Ali act? 35. Where did Mohammed begin to preach ? 36. Why did the guardians of the city oppose him? 37. How were some of his most zealous followers treated? 78. What emblem was permitted to remain? 79. What was the black stone? 80. The consequence of the capture of Mecca ? 81. What two great objects did he thus effect? 82. How many warriors did he now have? 38. Was he alarmed by these demonstra- 83. What led to his death? tions? 84. At what age and in what year? 39. What did he say, when requested to sus-85. His dying words? pend his preaching? 40. On what great occasion did he preach? 41. What rendered the inhabitants of Medina that were present peculiarly attentive ? 42. What was Mahommed's first step in imposture ? 43. What was he all along an impostor or an enthusiast? 44. What doctrine did he now preach in opposition to his former doctrines? 45. What personal interview did the angel Gabriel afford him? 46. How did the Meccan chiefs act after this? 47. Whither did he flee? 48. What is his flight called? 49. How old was he at this time? 50. How was he received in Medina? 51. The meaning of the term "Medina "? 52. How did his converts act? 53. What attracted warriors to his standard? 54. What occurred near the well Bedr? 55. How did he now extend his religion? 56. What sublime orientalism was long the war cry of his followers? 57. Who were the special objects of his hatred ? 58. Why were they so? 86. His favourite wife? SEC. 4.-Early Progress of the Saracens. 1. What shook the fabric of Islamism to its foundation? 2. Who had the best hereditary claims? 8. What purpose did he then form? 10. Its general, who? 11. Why did he wish to take Jerusalem? 12. His instructions to his army? 13. What renders them so remarkable? 14. Quote Rev. 9. 4. 15. What other city did he wish to take 16. Did Heraclius succour it? 17. How often was his army routed? 18. What dispute arose between the Saracen generals? 19. Why was the memory of the Khaliph Abú Bekr venerated? 20. His character? 21. His successor ? 59. What effect did a defeat at Ohod have 22. How did he evince his jealousy of Khaon him? 60 To what did he ascribe it? led? 23. What empire fell next? 61. What character did the war now as- 24. The result of the battle of Kadesia? |