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100

This general appears in Procopius' Secret History and was one of Procopius' commanding generals, whom he wrote quite critically of.

Bellisarius 

100

This is the name for the pilgrimage encouraged taken by Muslims at least once in their lifetime to Mecca. 

Hajj

100
This kingdom lost Yemen to the Sasanians in th 6th century. 

Kingdom of Aksum 

100

This road facilitated the transport of frankincense and myrrh. 

Incense Road

100

This plague is equivalent to what we call today the Bubonic plague. For full credit, list the date in began.

Justinianic plague, 541CE

200
This woman was a Burgundian princess who married Clovis.

Clotilda. 

200

Clovis rejected this form of Christianity so he could convert to Latin/Roman Christianity. 

Arianism 

200

The Sasanians and Romans fought over this territory for years until it was formally divided in 387 CE by Shapur the II. 

Armenia

200

Build under the direction of Emperor Justinian, this famous building served as a Christian church and later a Mosque. 

Hagia Sophia

200

Staring during the Umayyad Caliphate, this is a tax non-muslims have to pay. 

Jizya

300

The assassination of this Byzantine Emperor provoked the beginning of the final Great Byzantine-Sassanian War in 602.  

Emperor Maurice I

300

After condemning Monophysitism at a council in 451, this became a new equivalent term for orthodox Christianity. 

Chalcedonian

300

This people group threatened the Silk Road with its invasion of Sasanian lands in the 6th century A.D.

Hepthalites

300

This is a stadium typically used for chariot racing.

Hippodrome

300

These are tenant farmers, tied to the land, who work the land of their landlords and pay them a share of their crops. This is also known as the beginning of feudalism or serfdom.

Coloni

400

This half-Vandal, half-Roman man served as an advisor to one of the last kings of the Western RE. Despite his barbarian origins, we can see from archaelogical findings, that he chose to represent his family as Roman.


Stilicho 

400

This church stems from strains of Monophysitism and began in Egypt, using a language mixed with old Egyptian and some Greek words. 

Coptic or Coptic churches 

400

This group first migrated (or invaded) in the fourth century. Initially welcomed by Emperor Valens, relations turned south and they fight at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. They sacked Rome in 410 but eventually settled down in Spain in 418. 

Visigoths

400
This people group defeated the Ostrogoths and prevented Justinian from a complete reconquest of the Italian penninsula.

Lombards

400

This codification of precedents, judicial opinions, and imperial edicts became the basis of Byzantine and Roman law in the Western Empire. 

Corpus Juris Civilis, "Body of Civil Law"

500

He was a Nestorian Christian who was paid by Abbasid Caliphate to translate primarily Greek texts in science and medicine. 

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

500

This power took Islam to the edges of Northern Spain. 

Umayyad Caliphate

500

The military actions of Alamdoundaros of this kingdom let to the beginning of the 2nd Great Byzantine-Sasanian War. 

Lakhmids

500

The Vandhals settled in this ancient city in the 5th century once destroyed and rebuilt by the Romans themselves.

Carthage

500

Identify these three cities.

Demascus, Ravenna, Cordoba