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Also called: Eastern Roman Empire
What is the Byzantine Empire
This activity created most of the wealth in the Byzantine empire.
What is taxing goods that went through Constantinople.
A painting done on plaster, usually using water colors.
What is a Fresco
By the 700's, there was a split in the Christian Church. Churches in the Byzantine Empire spoke Greek and were named this.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church
The approximate dates of the Middle Ages.
What are 330CE - 1400's CE.
What is Constantinople
The organized collection of Roman laws, which now form the basis for many European democracies.
What is the Justinian Code
Besides laws, the Byzantine Empire retained these elements.
What are decorating churches with frescoes, paintings and mosaics. Also, preserving ancient texts in libraries.
The name for artistic depictions -- such as paintaings - of holy figures or sacred events. Eastern Orthodox Christians pray to these.
What are icons.
These are the three major kingdoms of West Africa.
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
A great center of knowledge and culture built during Mansa Musa's rule in Mali.
What is Timbuktu.
This event, in 1453 can be attributed to both attacks from Christian crusaders and attacks from Turks.
What is the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Large pyramids that served as places of worship in these four present day countries.
What are Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
Military missions that lasted almost 200 years -- attempting to gain control of the Holy Land for Europe.
What were the Crusades.
These early Americans invented CHOCOLATE!
Who are the Mayans.
Songhai, the African kingdom that took over Timbuktu in 1468 eventually fell to this well-known North African nation.
What is Morocco.
Another name for a real-life "Lion King" who seized control of the salt and gold trade for Mali, from Ghana.
Sundiata
The name for raised streets of hard earth that connected the island city of Tenochtitlan to land.
What is a causeway.
These Five Pillars of Islam are followed by over 1 billion people today.
What are:
1. Make a Testimony of Faith,
2. Pray 5 Times a Day,
3. Give to the needy,
4. Fast for Ramadan,
5. Make a Pilgrimage to Mecca.
These are all ways the Aztecs and Mayans are similar.
What are creating large temples, offering human sacrifices to the gods, developing a calendar, and creating a system of hieroglyphics.
The Mayans inhabited the southern end of this geographical feature in Central America.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Incan empire used this color-coded tool to keep track of things like births, deaths, and harvest inventory.
What is a Quipu.
Ledges cut into the mountainside to hold soil in place for farming.
What are Terraces.
After a schism (or split), Islam split into these two branches: one branch of Islam follows descendants of Muhammad, another branch believes any religious Muslim man can lead a community of faith.
Who are Shiites (follow descendants of Muhammad) and Sunnis (follow religious scholars).
Meaning of Tenochtitlan
What is "Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus"