Week 1 & 2
This type of evidence is something from the period being studied and the basis of historical interpretations about the past.
What is a primary source?
This ruler legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
This Arab leader is seen as the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
This successor kingdom controlling Iberia was said to be a "diseased" kingdom
What is the Visigothic Kingdom?
This family toppled the Merovingian Dynasty.
This concept in history recognizes that practices in the past can be unfamiliar to us today, being more akin to a foreign country.
What is alterity?
This tribe of Barbarians is responsible for the Sack of Rome in 410.
Who are the Visigoths?
This building is often seen as the peak of Roman architecture and engineering.
This language was spoken by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who conquered eastern Britain.
What is Old English?
This treaty led to the division of the Carolingian Empire in 843.
What is the Treaty of Verdun, 843.
Diocletian created this division of the Roman Empire, splitting Rome's territories into two halves, each with a senior and junior emperor.
What is the Tetrarchy
This city served as a new capital of the Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The Greens and the Blues are examples of...
What are the Demes?
This ruler is famous for converting to orthodox Christianity at the urging of his wife.
Who is Clovis I?
This city served as a showcase "capital" for Charlemagne.
What is Aachen?
These Late Antique officials acted as the leaders of urban Christian communities. After the legalization of Christianity, they became important administrators in the Late Roman Empire.
This Barbarian leader led a confederation of steppe tribes from central Eurasia and devastated Gaul and Italy in the 5th century.
Who is Attila the Hun?
This branch of Islam rejects the notion that leadership of the Umma (community of the faithful) must pass through the line of the prophet.
What is Sunni Islam?
This man from Britain is credited w/ the Christianization of Ireland.
Who is Saint Patrick?
This concept refers to the segment of the Carolingian Renaissance that focused on moral renewal and a common liturgy.
What is correctio?
This Late Antique saint was later venerated in southern France and was said to cure the blind who prayed for intercession at her shrine.
Who is Saint Foy?
This explanation for the end of the Western Roman Empire argues there were no invasions. Rather Roman generals -- with the blessing of the eastern emperors -- broke up the Western Roman territories into new "kingdoms."
What is the Deliberate Policy Model?
This successor kingdom in the west was definitively defeated by Justinian's chief general, Belisarius.
What is the kingdom of the Vandals?
This intellectual movement is at the center of the "Golden Age of Islam."
What is the Ulam?
This Abbasid dignitary to the Carolingian court was in fact an elephant.
Who is Abul-Abbas (d. 810)?