Early Christianity
Early Islam
Christianity in Rome
Islam in the Wider World
The Crusades
100

The founder of Christianity, their home city, and their home region. 

Who is Jesus, Nazareth, and Judea. 

100

The founder of Islam, their home city, and their home region. 

Who is Muhammad, Mecca, and the Arabian Peninsula? 

100
This typically happened to Christians in the Roman Empire in the earlier years. 

Persecution. 

100

A respected profession in Islam that assisted in its spread and why.

What is a merchant? And it was the prophet Muhammad's profession

100

The emperor and pope of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Catholic Church the initiated the Crusades.

Who are Alexios and Urban II? 

200
The religion of the early Christians, including the founder of Christianity. 

What is Judaism?

200

Pre-Islamic Arabian cultural influences found throughout Islam.  

What is Bedouin culture? 

200
The first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity.

Who is Constantine the Great? 

200

The Golden Age of Islam was during this caliphate with its capital in this city.

What are the Abbasids & Baghdad. 

200

3 non-religious reasons---including the Byzantines' greatest concerns, the Pope's greatest concerns, and a shared concern of both---for the initiation of the Crusades.

What is the protection of Constantinople, the protection of Western Europe, and the protection of the Christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem? 
300

They wrote 2 books in the New Testament and were followers of the Christian Messiah. 

Who are Matthew & John?

300

The three ways in which Islam spread beyond the region of its origin.

What is trade routes, missionaries, and conquest? 

300

This agreement between the two Roman Emperors put an end to government sanctioned hostilities and persecutions towards the Christians. 

What is the Edict of Milan? 

300

This is why Arab soldiers were so skilled in desert warfare tactics. 

They lived and trained in the Arabian Desert 

300

The four Crusader states.

What are Antioch, Jerusalem, Edessa, & Tripoli?

400

Some of the earliest "converts" to Christianity. 

Who are the Jews?

400

The term used for Christians and Jews, and later Zoroastrians and some pagans. 

What is "People of the Book"?

400

This law made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

What is the Edict of Thessalonica? 

400

As Islamic conquerors expanded their territory, the incorporated this architectural style from these people. 

What is the Arch and the Romans & Byzantines? 

400

The year and name of the speech that the Pope gave after agreeing to help the Byzantine Emperor.

What is the Council of Clermont, 1095 CE?

500
Early Christianity spread in this place for these two reasons. 

What is the Roman Empire, missionaries, and appealing to lower peoples? 

500

This caliph ensured there was only one Quran by ordering the others to be burned. 

Who is Caliph Uthman ibn 'Affan?

500

The year the law that no longer sanctioned persecutions against Christians in the Roman Empire and the year that the law that made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire were signed. 

313 CE & 380 CE

500

This social status was accompanied by this policy, thrust upon the Christians and Jews in the Islamic states, and the justification for buying, selling, and owning Christian and/or Jewish slaves.

What is dhimmi, jizya, and "rightfully captured"? 

500

The reasons connected to his positions that the Pope agrees to help the Byzantine Emperor.

What is reunification of the Roman Catholic and Eastern/Greek Orthodox Churches and expanding his power
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