History of Western Civilization I

The minimum length of each essay is three complete sentences that are written in Standard English.

THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF EACH ESSAY IS ONE-HALF OF ONE PAGE.

To answer the questions in the Content Quiz 2, please only use the information that was required reading in HIS-121.

This includes the required HIS-121 textbook, the professor’s Lesson Notes, and the required primary sources.

The grading criteria are accuracy, relevance, logic, comprehensiveness, substantiveness, and lack of plagiarism.

Please do not combine the answers for two or more questions into a single essay.

At the beginning of each essay answer, please write the number of the question that is being answered.

Please use factual evidence to evaluate the argument that the Early Medieval Western European Dark Ages was not actually an era of decline, but rather an era when the Germanic peoples were being culturally and religiously assimilated into the Western Roman Civilization.
Please use factual evidence to explain why the Byzantine Empire (325 CE – 1461 CE) was much less intellectually, culturally, economically, politically, and militarily successful than the Western Roman state (509 BCE – 476 CE), although both were sovereign states for approximately a millennium.
Please use factual evidence to evaluate the argument that the Islamic Arabic Civilization preserved and improved Western Civilization during the Middle Ages, while the Western Roman Civilization and the Byzantine Civilization were both in eras of decline. In your answer, please be respectful of religious and cultural diversity.
Please use factual evidence to explain the successful building of the Frankish state during the Early Medieval Era. Please explain how and why Charlemagne was able to build a large Western European Empire that temporarily acquired a better international reputation than the Byzantine Empire during the Early Medieval Era. Please briefly describe some of the most significant intellectual and cultural achievements of the Carolingian Renaissance. Please explain why the Holy Roman Empire was not durable after Charlemagne died.
Please explain why the Romanesque cathedral architecture was symbolic of the military history of Early Medieval Western Europe, when considering the invasion of Western Europe by Muslims, Magyars, and Vikings. In your answer, please describe major features of Romanesque architecture, but please do not the small details. Also, please evaluate the argument that, although the invading Vikings became a relatively small percentage of the Western European and Eastern European populations, they were very important in the history of Western Civilization.
Please use facts to evaluate the argument that, with the exception of the Holy Roman Empire, state building was unsuccessful in Europe during the Early Medieval Era.