Vocabulary
Islamic Empires
Byzantine Empire
Geography of Europe
Feudalism
100

The place of worship for Islam

What is a mosque?

100

The religion of Islam was started by this man.

Who was Muhammad?

100

The capital city of the Byzantine Empire

What is Constantinople

100

These mountains separate Italy from the rest of Europe.

What are the Alps?

100

This term refers to a system of economy and government that was used in the Middle Ages in Europe.

What is feudalism?

200

The head of the Catholic church

Who is the Pope?

200

The Abbasids made this city their capital. It is also a city in modern day Iraq.

What is Baghdad?

200

The Byzantine Empire used to be the...

What is the Eastern Roman Empire?

200

These are the two main rivers in Europe.

What are the Rhine and the Danube Rivers?

200

Feudalism is a system of give and get. For Kings and Queens, they give land to nobles and get ...

What are taxes and an army?

300

A person who moves around.

What is a Nomad?

300

The Fatimids ruled in Northern Africa and Spain, and said to be descended from this relative of Muhammad.

Who is Fatimah (Muhammad's daughter)?

300

These were the riots started by rival charioteers at the Hippodrome

What are the Nika riots?

300

This channel kept Britain out of conflicts and drama in Europe.

What is the English Channel?

300

True or false: peasants were under contract to work the land for a certain number of years.

What is false?

400

The Byzantine ruler who put down the Nika riots and revised old Roman laws

Who is Justinian?

400

This sea borders Istanbul (or Constantinople) and links to the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

What is the Black Sea?

400

The word "Hippodrome" translates to...

What is a horse track (racetrack)

400

These mountains separate Spain from the rest of Europe.

What are the Pyrenees?

400

These men lived by a code of chivalry, and fought on horseback against opposing armies.

What are knights?

500

A Muslim ruler

What is a caliph?

500

Finish these lyrics:

Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul not Constantinople, so if you've a date in Constantinople...

What is "she'll be waiting in Istanbul"?

500

This is the main church of the Byzantine Empire and can still be found in Eastern Europe.

What is the Eastern Orthodox Church

500

According to geographers, you can go anywhere in Europe and never be more than this many miles from the sea.

What is 300?

500

In the system of give and get, Nobles would give this to Knights in exchange for loyal solderis.

What is land?

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