Byzantine Empire
Credited for taking the Byzantine Empire to its height, but also gets the blame for bringing it to financial ruin
Who is Justinian?
The best examples of Muslim architecture
What are mosques?
Swedish Norsemen who took political control of Russia
Who are the Varangians?
The art of beautiful handwriting
What is calligraphy?
Justinian's wife
Who was Theodora?
This city's location on the Bosporus allowed it to be the vital link between the East and the West in land and sea trade routes
What is Constantinople?
The city Muslims pray toward and take pilgrimages to
What is Mecca?
The largest ethnic group living in early Russia
Who are the Slavs?
The uprising that Justinian crushed
What is the Nika Revolt?
Byzantine art that used tiny pieces of glass or stone in wet cement or plaster
What is mosaic?
The religion that threatened the Byzantine Empire through the invasion of the Turkish peoples
What is Islam?
Desert herdsmen
What are bedouins?
Established the first ruling dynasty in Russia
Who was Rurik?
The term for depriving an individual of the sacraments and excluding him from the fellowship of the church
What is excommunication?
"Holy War"
What is jihad?
The West's efforts to free the East from Muslim invaders
What are the Crusades?
Muhummad's flight to Medina
What is Hegira?
Who is Vladimir I?
Abu Bakr
Who was the first caliph?
The Byzantine Empire preserved this law code
What is Roman?
The army that brought about the end of the Byzantine Empire by sacking Constantinople
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
Muhummad's successors who directed the affairs of Islam
What are caliphs?
City on the Dnieper River that was the center of the early Russian state
What is Kiev?
The army that annihilated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
The church that the Byzantine church became known as
What is Eastern Orthodox Church