Classical Period
The dates of the Classical Period.
(Not in a question)
600 BCE - 600 CE
The branch of Christianity that the unified Byzantine Empire Practiced.
What is the Orthodox Church?
The trade route that also declined after the collapse of the Han Dynasty.
What is the Silk Road?
The trade route that developed in the Arab Empire during the early-Post Classical period.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
The Arabian Peninsula
Where was Islam founded?
The religion popularized by the Roman Empire that survived after its collapse.
What is Christianity?
The areas that populations moved to after the collapse of empires.
What are rural areas?
A system of government that maintained the continuity after the collapse of the Han Dynasty in post-Classical China.
What is the Han bureaucracy?
The time of prosperity experienced by the middle east under the Abbasid Caliphate.
What is the Golden Age?
The quality of a religion that seeks to actively convert people.
What is a universalizing religion?
The trade routes that grew in the Classical Period and connected Han China, Persia, and Rome.
What are the Silk Roads?
People that began farming noble's land due to the reduction in trade after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Who are Pesants?
A religion who's center became post-Classical China after originating in the Gupta Empire.
What is Buddhism?
The scholarly institution the Arab Empire invested in with the wealth generated through the wealth acquired through trade.
What is the House of Wisdom?
One of the Five Pillars of Islam focused around donating money and helping people in need.
Why did Islam appeal to the poor?
Areas like the city of Rome who's population increased as Empires thrived.
What is an urban area?
Warfare and the reduction of trade led Western Europe to break into independent kingdoms with their own leaders and currency.
What caused fragmentation?
One of the systems that continued during the Tang and Song dynasties after the collapse of the Han where choosing leadership was based on success on a test.
What is Meritocracy?
The spread of the availability of the camel and the arrival of Arab traders.
What expanded the Trans-Sharan Trade Network?
A key practice in the religion of Islam that allowed conquered people to maintain their customs and beliefs.
What is religious tolerance?
The strategy the Roman Republic used to prevent any one person from gaining too much power and becoming a tyrant.
What is the Separation of Powers?
The economy of Western Europe based on sharing of land and military protection from nobles and sharing of crops by peasant farmers.
What is feudalism?
The dynasty that took over the Tang after they replaced the Han.
Who is the Song Dynasty?
The caliphate under which large amounts of no-Muslims converted to Islam.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The disagreement between who should take over after Muhammad's death.
What caused the split in the Islamic religion?