African Cultures
The Byzantine Empire
Mesoamerica
The Religion of Islam
Potpourri
100
This desert covers the northern third of Africa.
What is the Sahara.
100
This Byzantine emperor created a set of laws that was used throughout his empire.
Who is Justinian?
100
This Mesoamerican society created a highly accurate 365 day calendar.
Who are the Maya?
100
This holy book recorded the words and teachings of Muhammad.
What is the Qur'an?
100
This is a stadium for chariot racing.
What is a hippodrome.
200
This city was founded as a trading post by Arabs. It grew and prospered because of its status as an important trading hub on the Red Sea.
What is Aksum.
200
As an adviser to Justinian, Theodora helped passed laws which benefited this underrepresented portion of society.
What is married and divorced women.
200
These are the different levels of Maya society.
What is emperor, his advisors and family, laborers/farmers, and slaves.
200
This is the practice in which Muslims fast during daylight hours for one month.
What is Ramadan?
200
Ivan the Great named this city the "Third Rome".
What is Moscow?
300
This technique supported the migration of the Bantu culture.
What is slash and burn?
300
These monks helped spread Orthodox Christianity to Slavic cultures.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
300
Maize was important to Mesoamerican society because it promoted this.
What is the development of civilization and the specialization of labor.
300
True or false: Allah is the same God that Jews and Christians worship.
What is true?
300
These are three monotheistic religions that we have studies in the course so far.
What are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
400
The Bantu-speaking people had this skill and ability over the hunter-gatherers they displaced.
What is the ability to make iron weapons.
400
These differences caused the Christian Church to divide into the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
What is differences in language, liturgy, and views on religious icons.
400
This civilization created enormous stone sculptures of heads of warriors.
What is the Olmec.
400
After his death, Islam spread rapidly from an area of Spain to India.
Who is Muhammad?
400
This is the reason why Muslim artists did not create pictures or statues of lifelike beings.
What is the fact that Muhammad taught that Allah alone could create life; it was a sin of arrogance to draw living creatures.
500
This was the primary cause of Aksum's greatness.
What is extensive trade?
500
A movement in which a segment of Byzantine society who believed the use of icons came dangerously close to idol worship
What is iconoclasm?
500
This South American civilization created large shapes and patterns in the countryside that could only be seen by air.
What is the Nazca.
500
This caused the division between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
What is conflict over who should be caliph?
500
These are the 5 pillars of Islam.
What is 1) Profession of Faith; 2) Prayer; 3) Giving Alms; 4)Fasting; 5)Pilgrimage to Mecca
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