All Things Greek
This word describes the spread of Greek culture throughout Afroeurasia.
What is Hellenism?
This pilgrimage site in Mecca was popular even in pre-Islamic Arabia.
What is the Ka'bah?
Name one reason why Viking ships were so effective.
Ex: shallow draft, clinker-built design, square sails, multiple oarsmen, built the same front and back, etc.
This man was the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Octavian / Augustus?
The bones or belongings that touched early Christian martyrs are known as ______________.
What are relics?
This empire, largely Greek but still referring to itself as Roman, remained for nearly 1000 years in the East after the Roman Empire fell in the West.
What is Byzantium?
The Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad by this angel.
Who is the angel Gabriel?
This Viking leader was given a large territory to settle with his fellow Norsemen, hence leading to its eventual name, Normandy.
Who is Rollo?
Constantine moved the capital of the Empire to a little town in modern-day Turkey and renamed it:
What is Constantinople?
The first Frankish king to be converted to Nicene Christianity, Clovis I, established a dynasty known as the ___________.
Who are the Merovingians?
_______________ became the lingua franca in all the lands conquered by Alexander the Great.
What is Koine Greek?
The first four caliphs of Islam all knew Muhammad personally and were called the _______________.
What are the Rashidun Caliphs?
This ruler issued the Saxon Capitulary, limiting the rights and religious practices of his newly conquered people.
Who was Charlemagne?
The Roman religious idea of orthopraxy is best summed up in this Latin phrase.
What is "do ut des"?
Catholic missionaries used various methods to convert pagans across Europe. Name one of these methods.
What are the establishment of monastic communities, syncretism, simple theological teachings, or coercion?
The theory of the makeup of the human body and the method for keeping it healthy in the classical and medieval periods was called _______________.
What is the humoral theory?
Ibn Fadlan wrote an account of the Viking Rus in the East and their less-than-impressive hygiene habits in his travelogue, the _______________.
What is the Risala?
This Pope ushered in the victory of Christianity over the English people through his patronage of missionary activity after seeing two Angle children in a marketplace being sold as slaves.
Who was Gregory the Great?
The documents required by the Romans to show that someone had made their required public sacrifice was known as a:
What is a libellus/libelli?
What is the Two-Source Hypothesis?
The successors of Alexander who divvied up his empire were known as the what?
What are the Diadochoi?
The Shi'a splintered off from mainstream Sunni Islam because they thought Islamic leadership should pass to a blood relative of Muhammad after the death of ______________.
Who is Ali?
The death of Edward the Successor and the Norman Conquest of England by William the Conqueror was embroidered in its entirety on this famous cloth.
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
Rome went through three types of government structures in its long history. They are:
What is monarchy, republic, and empire?
Emperor Theodosius I issued this edict in 380 to make Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Thessalonica?