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This group of Jews resisted/fought the Romans for their freedom.
Who are/were The Zealots?
This is the name given by our readings to describe people willing to give up their life before giving up their beliefs.
Who are/were martyrs?
This Frankish king was crowned emperor by the pope in A.D 800.
Who was Charlemagne?
This is the name of the Islamic holy book
What is the Quran?
Arabic for "successor" this word describes the leaders that followed after Muhammad's death.
What is/were caliphs?
This is the name for a Muslim place of worship
What is a mosque?
This is the original name of the Jewish land that romans called Judaea after Roman emperor Augustus made it a Roman province in 6AD.
What is/was Judah?
This title is given to men within the Christian clergy tasked with supervising a diocese.
What is/was a bishop?
What is a schism?
This is the name given by our text for the leader of individual Arab tribes prior to the unification of the Islamic State
What is/was a sheikh?
This Muslim empire renamed Constantinople to Istanbul.
These are the distinctive architectural features of mosques from which the call to prayer is announced 5 times a day.
What are/were minarets?
What are/were parables?
This term is how "false teachings" are described by the bishops who rejected them.
What are/were heresies?
This is the name of the group that was pushed out of Southern Britain into remote, mountainous areas by the Anglo-Saxons.
Who are/were the Celts?
This travel method was frequently employed by Arab merchants to provide protection from Bedouin raiders.
What is/was a caravan?
This caliphate was overthrown by the Abbasids circa 750 AD.
Who are/were the Umayyads?
This famous Muslim building was built as a tomb for a Mogul ruler's wife
What is the Taj Mahal?
This is the event that, according to our text (and the Christian bible) led to the birth of Christianity.
What is/was Jesus' resurrection?
This group recognizes the authority of the Pope.
Who is/was the Roman Catholic Church?
This is the form of writing named after the brother of Methodius.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
These are the 5 core beliefs of Islam outlined by the Quran.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is belief, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage ?This Islamic minority group believes that all Caliphs had to be direct descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali.
Who are/were the Shia?
This industry, eventually created by Muslim traders, made them very successful and wealthy
What is banking?
This man, according to the Christian bible, was a well-educated Jew and Roman citizen who originally tried to stop the spread of the Christianity before having a religious experience and becoming an important apostle.
Who is/was Paul of Tarsus?
According to our readings, Christians who did not accept the authority of the Pope, spoke mostly this language.
What is/was Greek?
These Western Christian monks follow a set of rules developed by an Italian in AD 529
What is/are/were Benedictine monks?
This Arabic word describing a significant event in Islamic history marks the first year of the Muslim calendar.
What is/was the Hijrah?
This is the group that overthrew the Abbasid caliphate but allowed them to continue to manage their own religious affairs.
Who are/were the Seljuk Turks?
The social hierarchy of the ancient Muslim world was based upon power and this material possession.