Rise of Islam
Umayyad and Abbasid Islamic Empires
Africa and Islam
Byzantium
Medieval Western Civilization
100
These two Arab trading towns would become holy centers for Islamic faith.
What is Mecca and Medina?
100
This was the capital of the Umayyad Empire in the 7th-8th centuries.
What is Damascus in Syria?
100
This was the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara desert, along and around which many African civilizations emerged, especially after the introduction of the camel from Asia.
What is the sahel?
100
This was the capital of the Byzantine empire, founded in the 4th century CE.
What is Constantinople, founded by Emperor Constantine.
100
The most powerful institution of the Medieval West.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
200
Islam borrowed from and was foreshadowed by these two monotheistic faiths.
What is Judaism and Christianity?
200
These non-Islamic "people of the book" were granted toleration but were clearly in a subservient position to Arab Muslims.
Who are Jews and Christians?
200
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 brought the Islamic world's attention to this African kingdom?
What is the kingdom of Mali?
200
This 6th century Byzantine Emperor systematized the Roman law codes and expanded the borders of the empire back into Italy and North Africa.
Who is Emperor Justinian (527-565)
200
Charles the Hammer turned back the Muslims on this date at this battle, saving Europe from Islamic incursion.
What is the Battle of Tours in 732
300
These two empires in the Mediterranean and Middle East proved weak and vulnerable in the face of united Arab Islamic invasions.
What are the Byzantine and Sasanian Persian empires?
300
This Islamic group soundly defeated and caused the collapse of the Umayyad Empire in 750 CE and would set up their own Islamic empire, with its new capital in Baghdad, Iraq.
Who are the Abbasids?
300
By the 13th century, the Swahili coast exported these goods in exchange for silks from Persia and porcelain from China ("China").
What are ivory, gold, iron, slaves, rare woods, and exotic animals?
300
This slavic tribe gave the Byzantines the most trouble in the Balkan region.
Who are the Bulgars, (Bulgaria)?
300
This self-sufficient economic system was based on landlords and subservient serfs, and had its origins with the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the manorial system?
400
These five pillars of the Islamic faith served as the basis for unifying the Arabs and later Muslim converts throughout the world.
What is the (1) confession of faith "There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." (2) Paying five times a day, (3) Fast of Ramadan, (4) Tithe for charity, (5) the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca?
400
The Christians of Western Europe first crusaded for the Holy Land on this date.
What is 1096?
400
This area of Africa was the one area where Islamic incursion did not effectively occur?
What is central and southern Africa?
400
The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church famously split on this date over controversies surrounding the Eucharist and clerical celibacy?
What is 1054?
400
This Carolingian ruler in France/Germany instituted the Holy Roman Empire in 800 CE.
Who is Charlemagne?
500
Muhammad's failure to name a successor before his death in 632 led to this acute and enduring split among Muslims, which has persisted up to the present.
What is the split between the Sunnis (the Umayyads) and the Shi'a?
500
These Turkish nomads soon became the real power behind the Abbasid rulers.
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
500
These were the "common elements" that African societies shared?
What are Bantu languages, animistic religions (a belief that a spirit existed in every object), belief in a creator deity, and veneration of ancestors.
500
The Byzantine Empire fell to the Seljuk Turks on this date.
What is 1453 with the fall of Constantinople?
500
The greatest theologian of medieval Europe, he created a "grand synthesis" combining faith and reason in the 13th century.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
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