Division of the Roman Empire and the Germanic Invasions
Empire Theodosius divided the Roman Empire into two parts, Western and Eastern, in this year.
When is 395 A.D.?
Laws were passed down in this manner in the Germanic Kingdoms, following these two cultural traditions.
What is orally? What is Roman and Germanic tradition?
The Byzantine Empire prospered economically and culturally in the period known as the "Golden Age" under this emperor.
Who is Justinian I?
Muhammad fled Mecca in this year.
Daily Double: Muhammad's flight is known by this name and marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
622
Daily double answer: What is the Hegira?
The Byzantine Empire maintained Roman ways of life, but also adopted elements from this culture and language.
What is Greek?
Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire took this name.
In this year, the Suevi, Alans, and Visigoths invaded la Península Ibérica.
When is 409 AD?
The Byzantine Empire had a pyramid-shaped social hierarchy made up of these classes (describe their composition from top to bottom).
Who are 1. the basileus; 2. the Patriarch of Constantinople; 3. the artisans, free peasants, merchants, and soldiers; and 4. servants and slaves?
Islam spread the most during this period.
What is the Omeya (Umayyad) Caliphate?
Typical motifs found in Byzantine architecture include domes decorated with these two features.
What are mosaics and icons?
The name of the Germanic Chieftain who deposed the last Western Roman Emperor.
Who is Odoacer?
In the Visigoth Kingdom, provinces were governed by these two types of figures.
What are dukes and counts?
The general nature of Byzantine Society.
What is urban?
The five pillars of Islam.
What is prayer five times per day, the pilgrimage, fasting, charity, and faith in one God, Allah, and the prophet Muhammad?
Muslims developed the astrolabe for this purpose.
What is navigation (at sea)?
This 4th century event prompted Germanic tribes seeking safety to invade territories in the Western Roman Empire at increased rates.
What is the Hun Invasion?
These languages were widely spoken in Germanic Kingdoms (name six).
What are Castilian, Galician, Italian, French, Catalan, German, and English?
During the 7th and 8th centuries, this group conquered the Mediterranean coasts of Palestine, Syria, and Northern Africa.
Who are the Muslims?
The judges of Islamic law were called by this name.
Who are quadis?
These features are often found in Islamic architecture (name five).
What are pillars, columns, arches, floral motifs, geometric patterns, and Quranic inscriptions?
This place was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire at the time of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
Daily double: The CURRENT name of the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
Daily double: What is Istanbul?
These tribes made up the first wave of settlers after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, throughout the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries.
Who are the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Vandals, the Burgundians, the Suevi, and the Alans?
In this year, the Turks (Ottomans) conquered Constantinople, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire and the historical period recognized as the Middle Ages.
When is 1453 AD?
The Islamic caliph had these four types of power.
What are religious, political, military, and legal power?
Examples of traditional Islamic crafts or goods (name three).
What are ceramics, leather, ivory, bronze, and glass?