GERMANIC KINGDOMS
What were the two important massive migrations that took part during High Middle Ages??
3rd to 5th centuries was the migration of the Germanic peoples.
6th century onwards: Slavs and Magyars, Norsemen and Muslims
Who divided the Roman Empire in two parts?
Emperor Teodosius
Who was the prophet of Islam?
Muhammad
Basileus
Maximum political, religious and militar authority for the Byzantine Society
Why Visigoths settled down in the Iberian Peninsula?
Because they were defeated by franks at the Battle of Vouille (507) and moved the capital from Tolosa to Toledo.
Why Constantinople was selected as the capital of the eastern roman empire?
Because of its strategical position for trade, in the middle of all the trade routes between Europe and Asia.
What's the name of the Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina?
Hégira (622)
A soldier that fight in exchange of money. Byzantine armies were based on mercenaries.
What was the base of the Germanic people's economy?
Agriculture and Livestock
When was the most important period of the Byzantine Empire?
During the 6th century, with the Emperor Justinian and his wife Teodora
Arab and Muslim is the same??
No. Arab means someone who was born in the Arabian Peninsula and muslim someone who believe in Islamic religion.
Caliph
Maximum religious, political and militar authority or the Islamic Empire
The monarchs governed with the help of a group of advisors or __________ _________________
Royal Council
The ____________ __________________
was a compilation of different roman and byzantines laws made by Justinian.
Codex Justinianus
What are the name of the Islamic sacred Book and the Islamic Law?
Koran and Sharia
Great Eastern Schism
The division of the Cristian Church occurred during the 11th century, between the Catholics (followers of the Roman Pope) and the Orthodox (followers of the Byzantine Patriarch)
Religion was originally _________________, but they gradually converted to Christianity.
polytheistic
Byzantine Economy was based in?
Agriculture and livestock
Trade of luxury products
Craftmanship
What are the five pillars of Islam?
1.“Belief in a single God, Allah, and his prophet Muhammad”.
2.Praying five times a day, at specific times, facing Mecca.
3.Giving charity to the poor.
4.Fasting [ayuno] during the daytime in the month of Ramadan (onemonth a year).
5.Going on a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in life.
Iconoclastic Wars
Different conflicts occurred in the Byzantine Empire with the Iconoclastas (people that want to ban religious images or icons). At the end, icons were allowed.