Byzantine Empire
Constantinople was its capital and it is located on a peninsula between the Aegean and Black Sea.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The Edict of Milan ended the legal persecution of Believers and brought the church under the control of the _______.
What is "state"?
Nomads who lived on the Arabian Peninsula, which is a desert.
Who were Bedouins?
Swahili is a mixture of ________, Arabic and Persian words
What is Swahili?
This was built by Abd al-Malik, who was the leader of the Umayyad caliphate; it was built over the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
What is Dome of the Rock?
These people were the largest ethnic group in Russia.
Who were Slavic people?
He established the Mongol Empire.
Who was Genghis Khan?
The earliest inhabitants of this country lived in city-states in the northern part of the nation around the eastern region of the Huang He.
What is China?
The codification of the Roman civil laws; became the basis for most European legal systems
What is the Justinian Code?
Who is the pope?
He was born in Mecca and was the founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
During Mansa Musa's reign in this Empire, the city of Timbuktu became Africa's leading economic center.
What is Mali?
This was a caliphate where non-Arab Muslims gained influence in Islamic society, the capital was moved from Damascus to Baghdad.
What was Abbasid?
This group, who established a kingdom in southern Russia between the Black and Caspian Seas, accepted Judaism.
Who were the Khazars?
He was the leader of the Mongol soldiers who destroyed Kiev in 1240.
Who was Batu Khan?
This was introduced to China by silk traders and was eventually recognized by the emperor as an official Chinese religion.
What is Buddhism?
The Lombards and Vikings were this kind of tribe who attacked the Byzantine Empire and conquered much of Italy.
What is Germanic?
The Bible very clearly teaches that ___________ is the head of the church.
Who is Christ?
This is by grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
What is salvation?
This part of Africa was first settled by colonists from Phoenicia.
What is North Africa?
This group gained control of Baghdad and the Islamic Empire toward the end of the tenth century.
Who were Seljuk Turks?
This alphabet made it possible to translate Greek works into Slavic languages.
What is Cyrillic?
Ivan I, the prince of Muscovy, convinced the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to move here.
Where is Moscow?
This was the route that allowed travel between China & the Roman Empire.
What is the Silk Road?
This emperor's conquests nearly doubled the size of the Byzantine Empire
Who was Basil II?
The patriarchs of this place and Constantinople became the dominant patriarchs within the church when the Roman Empire was divided into the East and the West
This is a false religion that rejects the Biblical teaching that mankind is born in sin, the doctrine of the Godhead and the deity of Jesus.
What is Islam?
He was the bishop of Carthage in North Africa and a Christian theologian who was martyred for his faith.
Who was Cyprian?
This archipelago is composed by thousands of islands.
What is Japan?
Vladimir I chose this as the religion for Kievan Rus.
What is Orthodoxy?
This is the memory verse for humble.
What is "Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." Proverbs 16:19
This was a Chinese dynasty in which the papermaking process was invented and Jesus Christ was born.
Han
Paintings or mosaics that portrayed saints and other people important to the church and other significant events in church history
What are icons?
After the division of the church in the Roman Empire, the state church in the West, known as ________________ remained under the authority of the pope.
What is Catholic church?
This was developed by Umar, who was an Islamic caliph.
What is Islamic calendar?
This group, along with the Novations, were part of the free church movement and had strong followings in North Africa.
Who are Donatists?
His constitution formed the basis for the Japanese government.
Who was Prince Shotoku?
The Kievan Rus state eventually became part of this country.
Russia
1 Peter 1:14 says...
What is "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance."
This Chinese dynasty is considered the high point of Chinese civilization, block printing was invented during this time.
What is Tang?
The state church in the East after the division of the church in the Roman Empire
What is state?
He was Muhammad's son-in-law and was caliph when civil war broke out between the Shiite and Sunni factions.
Who was Ali?
What is Ghana Empire?
This gave the Japanese emperor absolute authority over the provinces.
What are Taika Reform Edicts?
This is the center of Russian government, religion, and culture.
What is the Kremlin?
She was the only female emperor in China's history.
Who was Empress Wu?
These churches did not allow the Roman Empire to govern what they believed or how they worshipped.
What is free?
He founded the Umayyad caliphate and divided the empire into provinces. He also moved the capital from Medina to Damascus.
Who was Mu'awiyah?
This was the prolonged struggle for the domination of Japan during the Muromachi period.
What was the Onin War?
This was the first foreign dynasty to rule all of China, it was ruled by Kublai Khan.
What is Yuan?
Who is Sovereign God?
This is another term for military dictator of Japan.
What is a shogun?
This dynasty restored Chinese rule and ended slavery