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These are sacred images that represent Christ, saints, and other sacred subjects.
What are icons?
This is the title for the ruler of the Ottomans.
What is sultan?
He had revelations and beliefs that developed into the religion of Islam.
Who was Muhammad?
The revelations of Muhammed were compiled by his followers into this book.
What is the Qur'an?
These are the 3 sacred cities to Muslims.
What are Jerusalem, Medina, and Mecca?
This is a foreign soldier paid by the government.
What is a mercenary?
This is a nomadic person who did not speak Greek or Latin and who did not adopt Roman culture.
What is a barbarian?
He defended the emperor in the Hippodrome.
Who was Belisarius?
The Byzantine Empire fell in this year.
What is 1453?
This made Christianity legal.
What is the Edict of Milan?
What is a jihad?
This is the nature of God.
What is deity?
He was the emperor who had the Roman laws simplified but left the empire financially ruined.
Who was Justinian I?
One lasting contribution of the Byzantine Empire was this.
What is scholars preserved Greek learning, philosophy, and literature?
The Protestant Christians and the Eastern Orthodox Church agree on this belief.
What is God is the Trinity?
This is a sacred journey.
What is a pilgrimage?
These are the earliest leaders of the church.
Who were apostles?
The emperor who ordered the destruction of religious icons.
Who was Leo III?
This was the reason for The Nika Revolt.
What was the people were tired of Justinian's heavy taxes to finance building projects?
What is a cold winter?
This is an open-air stadium for sporting and social events.
What is a hippodrome?
This was a fatal disease spread by fleas.
What is the Black Death?
This Turkish group conquered all of the Byzantine Empire.
Who were the Ottomans?
This was the purpose of the Crusades.
What is to free Jerusalem from Islamic rule?
Heraclius reformed the army by firing the mercenary soldiers and training these for the army.
Who are peasants?