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Byzantine
Orthodox v. Catholicism
Islam as Religion
The wild card
The Arabic Empire
100
Bezant
What is the currency of Byzantine?
100
The forceful spread of Christianity.
What are the Crusades
100
Prayer five times a day, giving of alms to the poor, fasting during Ramadan, the Haj, and finally.......there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.
What are the five pillars of Islam.
100
7 1/2 months
What is the precise age of NYANA?
100
The landscape/environment of Arabia.
What is a desert?
200
A relationship in which the church and state are intimately tied as demonstrated in Byzantium.
What is caesaropapism.
200
The official languages of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church (Please specify which language to which religion)
What are Latin and Greek.
200
The two sects of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia.
200
The third rome
What is Russia?
200
Arab traveler who wrote about his extensive journeys throughout the Islamic world.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
300
Textiles, dyes, and silks.
What are Byzantine exported goods.
300
Was a sign of the continuing deterioration between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 1054.
What is the mutual excommunication between the leaders of both faiths?
300
Where Islam began
What is Mecca?
300
He was from Italy, but is known for his travels in China.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Formal colleges for higher instruction in the teachings of Islam, as well as in secular subjects
What are madrassas?
400
Constantinople
What is the capital of Byzantine?
400
The only opportunity for a position of power offered to women by the church.
What is a nunnery?
400
Archangel Gabriele
Who did Muhammad revelations come from?
400
Charlemagne and Otto the I of Saxony.
Who are the two rulers that came closest to uniting western Europe after the fall of the Roman empire?
400
A tax that dhimmas pay.
What is jizya?
500
Valdimir of Kiev
Who is a ruler that was heavily influenced by Byzantine culture, especially their religion.
500
the similarities between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy (must get 4 out of the possible 8)
What are the teachings of Jesus, the Bible, the sacraments, a church hierarchy patriarchs, bishops, and priests, a missionary impulse, and intolerance towards other religions?
500
An arid mountainside.
What is the location of Muhammad's revelations?
500
The regional kingdoms in political western Europe 500-1000
What are the Visigoths, the Lombards, the Franks, and Angles and Saxons.
500
west african city known as the center of Islamic scholarship.
What is Timbuktu?