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This source is the primary authority on Muslim belief and practice.
What is the Qur'an (or Koran)?
100
This individual calls the Muslim faithful to prayer.
Who is the Muezzin?
100
The birthplace of Muhammad.
What is Mecca?
100
This city was the meeting place of East and West and the vital link in both land and sea trade routes.
What is Constantinople?
100
This term refers to Muhammad's flight to Medina.
What is the Hegira?
200
This emperor led the Byzantine Empire into its first great period of history and culture.
Who is Justinian?
200
This city was Constantinople's biggest commercial rival.
What is Venice, Italy?
200
The central doctrine taught by the Qur'an is the belief in _____.
What is one god?
200
This city was Muhammad's destination during the Hegira.
What is Medina?
200
This term means "submission" to Allah.
What is Islam?
300
This Russian ruler was known as "the Wise".
Who is Yaroslav?
300
This city on the Dnieper River was the center of the early Russian state.
What is Kiev?
300
The ruler known as the Bulgar Slayer was _______.
Who is Basil II?
300
Muhammad supposedly received his ideas for Islam through ______.
What are a series of visions?
300
In early Russia this important river was used as a major route for trade with the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Dnieper River?
400
One of the most enduring achievements of the Byzantine Empire was the preservation of the _____ _____.
What is the Roman Code?
400
This is the meaning of the "Hagia Sophia". (TRIPLE JEOPARDY-1200 points)
What is Holy Wisdom?
400
The new seventh-century threat to the Byzantine Empire was the ______.
Who are the Arab Muslims?
400
This individual was a missionary to the Slavic peoples.
Who is Methodius?
400
The Eastern and Western churches officially split in ______.
What is 1054 CE/AD?
500
This individual established Orthodox Christianity as the state religion of Russia. (TRIPLE JEOPARDY!!!-1500 points)
Who is Vladimir I?
500
This group of Swedish Norsemen plundered Slavic villages in Russia. (TRIPLE JEOPARDY!!!-1500 points)
Who are the Varangians?
500
The Byzantine secret weapon that would burn on water was called ______. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!-1000 points)
What is Greek Fire?
500
The Muslims advance in Europe was stopped by the ______ ______.
What is the Battle of Tours?
500
The Umayyad caliphate and the Abbasid caliphate differed in that the ______. (QUADRUPLE JEOPARDY!!!!-2000 points)
Abbasids allowed non-Arabs to hold government positions.
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