Byzantine Empire
Monotheism and Islamic History
Early to Late Middle Ages
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
New World
100
Constantine and Justinian
What is emperors of the Byzantine Empire
100
Christians, Jews, and Muslims trace the roots of their religions back to this individual
What is Abraham?
100
a period of weak central government, illiteracy, and invasion.
What is the Dark Ages?
100
Asserted heliocentric theory, Polish astronomer
What is Copernicus?
100
This civilization had powerful city-states, calendar system, and major cities Chichen Itza
What is Maya?
200
rebuilt the Hagia Sophia meaning "holy wisdom" and had Roman law codified
What is emperor Justinian?
200
Believed that Jesus and Abraham were prophets and that Muhammad is the last great prophet.
What is Muslims?
200
A social structure that provides land and services; involves the king/lord and lesser lords/knights. Response to invasions by the Vikings.
What is Feudalism?
200
Social and intellectual movement in the late 17th and 18th Century; philosophers such as Kant, Locke, Voltaire; leads to age of revolutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
A forced labor system; cruel treatment of Native Americans
What is encomienda?
300
strategically located between Europe and Asia; a center of trade along the Mediterranean Sea
What is Byzantine Empire (Constantinople)?
300
A period defined by extensive trade, art, medicine, and literature.
What is the Golden Age of Islam?
300
Fighting over the Holy Land (Jerusalem) which eventually weakens Constantinople. Prevents Christian pilgrimage.
What is the Crusades?
300
Descartes, Newton, Bacon challenged views of these ancient philosophers
What is Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen?
300
hierarchy of rulers and nobles aka social structure; downfall caused by Spanish conquistador; empires
What is Inca and Aztec?
400
led to destruction of graven images and caused a great schism in the Christian church between Eastern Orthodox and Western Roman Catholicism.
What is the iconoclasm?
400
Believed that leadership should pass along the bloodline of Muhammad.
What is Shiite?
400
One in three died, carried by fleas on rats, originated in Asia, led to rising middle class and towns.
What is the Black Death?
400
House arrest, heretic, agreed with heliocentric theory and studied moons of Jupiter.
What is Galileo?
400
obtain gold, silver, and other riches; conversion to Christianity
What is the Spanish conquistadors?
500
Islamic empire that caused the downfall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
Body of law that includes interpretation of the Quran, writings from the Hadith, and Muslim traditions.
What is Sharia Law?
500
Mutual obligation, self-sufficient unit, lord and serf
What is Manorialism?
500
Believed men to be cruel and brutish by nature
What is Thomas Hobbes?
500
spread empire through war and conflict; ritual human sacrifice
What is Aztecs?
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