Dates pt 1
What happened in the year 313?
Edict of Milan
What happened in the year 325?
Council of Nicaea
Who was Constantine?
Who was Charles "The Hammer" Martel?
Frankish Mayor of the Palace, defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 732
What is the Pax Romana
200-year-long "peace" from roughly 0-200 AD
What happened in the year 800?
Charlemagne was crowned King of the Roman Empire
What happened in the year 410?
Rome was sacked
Who was Mohammad?
Founder of Islam
Who was Augustine of Hippo?
The foremost Christian philosopher/theologian of antiquity, who wrote the City of God, bishop of Hippo, a Neo-Platonist, combined pagan and Christian thought
What does "Muslim" mean?
One who submits/surrender
What happened in the year 378?
Battle of Adrianople
What happened in the year 636?
Battle of Yarmouk
Who was Charlemagne?
Frankish king who ruled from 768-814, expanded Frankish borders, the Carolingian Renaissance happened under him, first Holy Roman Emperor
Who was Justinian I?
Justinian was emperor of the Byzantine empire from 527-565, tried (somewhat successfully) to reconquer, rebuild, and reform Rome (reconquer Roman lands, rebuild Constantinople and other cities, and reform Roman judicial law)
What are 3 of the 5 Pillars of Islam?
Declaration of Faith, 5 daily prayers, giving alms, fasting during Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca once in a life
What happened in the year 751?
Franco-Papal Alliance/Pepin the Short deposed the Merovingian dynasty and instituted the Carolingian dynasty with papal support
2nd Siege of Constantinople
Who was Louis the Pious?
Charlemagne's son, good king but just a lesser version of Charlemagne, kingdom fell apart under his rule and was divided amongst his three sons
Who was Clovis?
Frankish warlord who originally united Gaul/Francia, ruled from 481-511, converted to Christianity and befriended the catholic church (as opposed to Arian Christianity)
What is Donatism?
What happened in the year 843?
What happened in the year of 380?
Christianity became the official religion of Rome
Who was Alcuin of York? What were some of his goals?
British scholar who came to the court of Charlemagne and sought to reform education by
Produce accurate copies of important texts
Encourage establishment of schools
Cherish and transmit Classical-Christian culture without adding to it - preservation, not innovation
Who was St. Boniface?
British Benedictine monk who came to Frankia/Gaul and reformed the Frankish church during the late 8th century
What is Monophysitism?
Christ's humanity and divinity are combined into one nature