Name of the split between eastern and western Christianity.
What is the Great Schism?
100
Its great wealth came from trade.
What is Constantinople?
100
3 things that monks vow.
What are poverty, obedience and chastity?
100
Roughly triangular arm of land that juts southward into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
100
These are the names of the 7 continents and 4 oceans.
What are North/South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia; Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian.
200
AKA, "The Body of Civil Law" in the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Justinian Code?
200
Who founded the Catholic monasteries.
Who is St. Benedict?
200
Group of people who share the same language and cultural heritage.
What is an ethnic group?
200
This razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America.
What is Chile?
300
Highest church official in Constantinople (the East).
What is the patriarch?
300
He was determined to revive Ancient Rome by recovering lands that had been overrun by invaders.
Who is Justinian?
300
Christian missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, created this alphabet so Slav people could read the Christian Bible.
What is cyrillic?
300
AKA an assembly.
What is a diet?
300
Death Valley is located in this U.S. state.
What is California?
400
Sole ruler with complete authority.
What is an autocrat?
400
Introduced Russia to a tradition of extreme absolute power that would shape Russian history well into the 20th century.
Who is Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)?
400
Batu Khan, one of Chingghis Khan's many grandsons, was in charge of this section of the great Mongol empire, which was sectioned off when Chingghis died.
What is the Golden Horde?
400
The Hungarian King, when controlled by the Magyars, had to sign this charter recognizing nobles' rights, much like when King John had to sign the Magna Carta.
What is the Golden Bull of 1222?
400
The name AND location of the tallest mountain in the United States.
What is Mt. McKinley, Alaska?
500
Served as an advisor and co-ruler to Justinian.
Who is Theodora?
500
He built the framework for absolute rule in Russia, trying to limit the power of the boyars (landowning nobles). He also adopted Byzantine court rituals to emphasize Russia's role as the heir to Byzantine power.
Who is Ivan III (Ivan the Great)?
500
Ivan the Great referred to himself as this. Name the title AND the meaning.
What is tsar (Caesar)?
500
When Jews were beginning to be expelled from Europe in the 1500s, these are the areas in which they settled, which were much more tolerant of them.