Locations
Present day Iran.
What is Persia?
Oldest monotheistic faith, originated in the Levant (near east), founder is Abraham.
What is Judaism?
One of the earliest denominations of Christianity that migrated south into Africa, where the Churches and artwork of this time period remains in this present day country.
What is Ethiopia?
The spread of a group of people away from their original homeland.
What is diaspora?
Having variety, diverse.
What is heterogenous?
Present day Turkey, bordered to the north by the Black Sea.
What is Anatolia?
Originated in northern India, circa 2500 BCE, polytheistic but arguable that the many gods exist in one, Vishnu.
What is Hinduism?
When the Roman Empire split into east and west, so did Christianity, this split created the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox (Byzantine) Christian denominations.
What is the Great Schism?
The order in which people take over a position, title, or throne, or the right to do so
What is succession?
Places and people that follow (and tolerate) different religions.
What is religious pluralism?
The desert that covers much of the northern portion of Africa, where massive amounts of gold and salt crossed it on dromedary (camel) caravans.
What is the Sahara Desert? (the trade network was called the Trans-Saharan Trade Network)
Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism are religions that believe in a singular god, which is called this.
What is monotheism?
The Abrahamic religions in order of their founding (earliest to most recent).
What are Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
Person from the Middle East or North Africa, whose ancestors lived in the Arabian peninsula
What is an Arab?
Southern Spain/Iberia.
What is Andalusia?
Name of the peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
A scholar of religious studies.
What is a theologian?
What is Hinduism?
A building and community in which monks (= members of a male religious community) live together.
What is a monastery?
Northwestern Africa.
What is the Maghreb?
Body of water that borders northern Africa and southern Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Christianity has many different types, also called this.
What are denominations?
Most people who follow a religion, for example Judaism, interpret and practice it the exact same way regardless of where they live or what their different cultures are.
What is false?
A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
What is an artisan?
A journey to a holy place for religious reasons.
What is a pilgrimage?
Maritime trade route that crossed this body of water to connect east Africa to west India and beyond.
What is the Indian Ocean?
What is Islam?
These are the two main sects of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia?
The same, not diverse.
What is homogenous?
The Eastern Roman Empire; empire ( a. d. 395-1453) in SE Europe & SW Asia, formed by the division of the Roman Empire: cap. Constantinople; Religious leader was the Eastern Christian Orthodox Church, the leader was called the Patriarch.
What is the Byzantine Empire?