An Athenian politician who led during the golden age.
Who is Pericles?
By extending some form of citizenship to many of the people it conquered.
Why was Rome able to conquer a vast empire?
Gave it easy access to both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
How did geography of the Byzantine Empire help to formulate its success?
Military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries.
How did the Islam spread so quickly?
When you only believe in one God.
What is Monotheism?
Greek topographic feature that led to individual city states.
What are mountains?
Economic problems, government corruption, crime and private armies, and the rise of Julius Caesar as dictator
What ended the Roman Republic?
Constantinople. It served as a gateway for trade between Asia and the Mediterranean.
What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire? Why was its location so strategic?
Literature, philosophy, science, medicine, mathematics, and art
What was the legacy of the Islamic Empires?
patriarch Abraham
Who was the founder of Judaism
When you only believe in one God.
What is Monotheism?
Fertile plans,It is central located,Mountains provide a barrier
How did Italy’s geography help the Roman unite the peninsula?
territorial expansion and military success and a spread if Christian culture
How did Justinian impact the Byzantine Empire?
Sicily, most of the Middle East and North Africa, and the Caucasus and Central Asia.
What did the Islamic empires capture?
Jesus Christ
Who was the founder of Christianity?
Art, architecture, literature, economy, and politics flourished.
What contributions flourished during the golden age of Pericles?
Romans built an extensive system of roads.
What were the contributions of Pax Romana?
Shaping Christian Orthodoxy.
What is the legacy of the Byzantine Empire?
sectarianism, pervasive extravagance and corruption and inept statecraft
What did the Islamic empire control?
Muhammad
Who was the founder of Islam?
king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.The spread of Greek culture that had begun after the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.
Who was Alexander the Great? What was Hellenistic culture?
Corruption, the division of the empire, and invasion by Germanic tribes.
What caused the decline of Rome?
Byzantines still considered themselves to be Romans.
Was Byzantine Greek or Roman?
Sunnis and Shia
What did the Islamic empire split into?
serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
Whats a prophet?