Ancient Rome
The most famous road leading into Rome.
What is the Appian Way?
The two elected officials who led the Republic.
Who were the Consuls?
The first and most essential Pillar of Islam.
What is the Shahada (declaration of faith)?
The House of Wisdom translated texts from these cultures.
What are Greek, Persian, and Indian?
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies between cultures.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The large temple in Rome is known for its dome.
What is the Pantheon?
Wealthy landowners with political power.
Who were the Patricians?
Muslims pray facing this holy site.
What is the Kaaba in Mecca?
Scholars at the House of Wisdom helped do this for Greek classics.
What is preserve them?
A person trained to carefully write or copy documents.
What is a scribe?
Roman law was first written on these.
What are the Twelve Tablets?
Common citizens without noble status.
Who were the Plebeians?
The act of fasting during Ramadan.
What is Sawm?
Ziryad opened Europe’s first music school in this city.
What is Cordoba?
The act of supporting artists or scholars financially.
What is patronage?
The time period of peace and minimal expansion in the Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
The Roman army’s largest unit of foot soldiers.
What is a Legion?
The leader who founded the House of Wisdom.
Who is Caliph al-Ma’mun?
The ancestor of the guitar mentioned in the text.
What is the lute?
The word describing acceptance of different religions or beliefs.
What is tolerance?
Roman roads stretched about this many miles by A.D. 100.
What is 2,000 miles?
The legal idea that “an accused person is innocent until proven guilty.”
What is the Roman system of laws?
The House of Wisdom was founded around this year.
What is A.D. 830?
Muslim Spanish music blended these two cultures.
What are Classical Arab and native Spanish?
A dense population related to a city or town.
What is urban?