Byzantine Empire
Western Europe
Islam
Africa
People
100
Capital city of the empire
What is Constantinople?
100
Reason for the decentralization and division of Western Europe.
What is invasions by barbarians?
100
Two goods traded in the Trans-Saharan trade
What is salt and gold
100
Wealthy African King
What is Mansa Musa?
200
Emperor who created a law code and promoted many other advancements in the empire. His wife was Theodora.
What is Justinian?
200
Name for the economic and social system that developed in medieval Western Europe. Based on loyalty and land.
What is Feudalism?
200
Name of the "cube" in Mecca that once held the idols of the pre-Islamic polytheistic religion.
What is Kaaba
200
Name for African storyteller
What is griot?
200
King who established the kingdom of Mali
What is Sundiata?
300
Name of the Christian church built by Justinian that later became a mosque.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
300
Since there wasn't one supreme political ruler, this person was able to consolidate a lot of power.
What is the Pope?
300
Name of two cities that were important to the growth of Islam
What is Mecca and Medina
300
City in Mali that was home to a famous mosque and university
What is Timbuktu?
300
Roman emperor who had the idea to split the empire
What is Diocletian?
400
Name for the split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine Empire that happened in 1054
What is The Great Schism?
400
Man who made the closest attempt at reunifying western Europe under the "Holy Roman Empire"
What is Charlemagne?
400
Names of the two factions of Islam
What is Sunni and Shia
400
Name for famous migrations that spread Swahili, farming techniques, and metalworking
What is Bantu?
400
Provided protection in medieval Europe
What is knights?
500
Two reasons for the Schism
What is conflict over leadership and use of icons?
500
Name of plot of land given to lords under Feudalism (besides manor)
What is fief?
500
Five pillars of Islam
What is faith, prayer, alms giving, fasting, and pilgrimage to Mecca?
500
Religion that became prominent in Aksum
What is Christianity?
500
King, nobles and church officials, knights, peasants
What is feudal structure?
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