Middle Ages
What does Dr. Smith hate to call the Middle Ages?
The Dark Ages
Who said that war is sometimes a necessary evil?
Augustine
In this category of analysis, historians seek to understand how and why things change or stay the same over time.
Change over time
What Roman emperor named two months after himself and his nephew?
Julius Ceasar (July and August)
Who is known as the prophet of Islam?
Mohammed
What were the three stages of the Middle Ages?
Early, High, and Late
What were the crusades about?
Helps us to “see the past” through the eyes of the people who lived it.
Context
What split the Catholic West from the Orthodox East side of Rome in 1054?
The Great Schism
What is the holy book of Islam?
The Qur'an
What did the members of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Medieval Estates do?
Pray, Fight, and Work
What year was the sacking of Jerusalem?
1099
Can have immediate and underlying causes – simultaneously. It is also important to distinguish between CAUSES and EFFECTS when discussing
Causality
What heresy did the Council of Nicaea address, that states Jesus was less than or subordinate to God the Father?
Arianism
Name 2 of the 5 pillars of Islam
The Creed, Prayer, Fasting, Pilgrimage, Almsgiving
What most famous saint of the middle ages gave himself to a life of poverty?
Saint Francis of Assisi
How did the church unanimously feel about war up until the time of Constantine?
Anti-War (Pacifists)
Helps us to understand that just because things happen, does not mean they HAD to happen that way
Contingency
What type of government did Rome start as before becoming an empire?
Republic
Where do Muslims go at least once in their life for their pilgrimage?
Mecca
What plague in the Late Middle Ages was spread by rodents and flea riders?
The Bubonic Plague
What was the result of the sacking of Jerusalem?
The Crusaders gain the land from the Muslims
States that history is more than just dates and numbers. The sum of all the different parts.
Complexity
What law was passed by Constantine the Great in 313 AD that made Christianity legal in Rome?
Edict of Milan
What is the large stone in Mecca called that is connected to Arabia's pagan past?
The Ka'ba stone