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 city Muslims pray toward and take pilgrimages to
What is Mecca?
True or False? Russian culture bears a strong Byzantine influence.
What is TRUE?
This is the name of Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
The West's efforts to free the East from Muslim invaders
What are the Crusades?
This city's location allowed it to be the vital link between the East and the West in land and sea trade routes
What is Constantinople?
"Holy War"
What is jihad?
The largest ethnic group living in early Russia
Who are the Slavs?
Vladimir I chose to make Eastern Orthodoxy the state religion of Rus because of these reasons.
What is he liked the beautiful music, candles, incense, and robes? What is he thought Roman Catholic churches were dark and dull? What is he did not like Islam because they rejected drinking? What is he thought Jews had a history of defeat?
True or False: The Crusades were very successful overall.
What is FALSE?
The uprising that Justinian crushed
What is the Nika Revolt?
Desert herdsmen
What are bedouins?
This is the main reason for the rise of Kiev.
What is its central location to trade?
This is one factor thatled to the Western and Eastern churches splitting.
Crusaders "take up" this to recover the land from Muslim invaders.
What is "the Cross"?
The Byzantine Empire preserved this law code
What is Roman?
Muhummad's flight to Medina
What is Hegira?
Who is Vladimir I?
This is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
What is Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, or Hajj?
This was one reason/goal of the Crusades?
Stop the spread of Islam, unite East and West Rome, Resore Roman power, Gain Lands for Rome (grow the empire), regain control of the Holy Lands
The church that the Byzantine church became known as
What is Eastern Orthodox Church
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?
A major problem after Muhammad's death stemmed from this.
What is failing to name a successor?
This is one effect of the Crusades.
What is 1: increased bitterness between Muslims, Christians, and Jews 2: Byzatine Empire weakens 3: People lose trust in Pope 4: Increased trade networks?