Africa
Byzantine Empire
Islamic Calphates
Middle Ages
Feudalism
100
The most common religion practiced in Africa before the introduction of Islam was Animism: what is the definition of Animism?
All living beings have a soul, including plants and animals.
100
What was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
100
The first of the four Rightly Guided caliphs, also Mohammed's father-in-law
Abu Bakr
100
What event led to the beginning of the Middle Ages?
The fall of Rome
100
The lowest class of Feudal Europe: peasants that were tied to the land.
Serf
200
The group of people that migrated all throughout central Africa.
Bantu people
200
The year Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks.
1453
200
The Umayyad Caliphate took over what part of Europe?
Spain/ the Iberian Peninsula
200
What was the only institution that held people together during the Middle Ages?
Catholic Church
200
The social class that had the most power during Feudalism, outside of the Church.
The land-owning lords
300
What was the major contribution of the Bantu people?
Language or metalworking.
300
What is the major contribution of the Byzantine Empire?
Preservation of Greek and Roman culture
300
The battle in 732 AD that stopped the spread of Islam into Europe, fought between the Franks and the Umayyad Caliphate.
Battle of Tours
300
What did Charlemagne value most?
Education or literacy
300
The economic system of Feudalism.
Manorialism
400
One of the most commonly spoken languages in Africa.
Swahili
400
What was the result of the Great Schism?
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
400
What was the capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate?
Baghdad
400
Signed by King John in 1215, this document limited the power of the monarch.
Magna Carta
400
A major achievement of the Middle Ages: a farming technique used on feudal manors.
3-field system