The Byzantines
The Eastern Roman Empire after the Fall of the West.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
the founder of Islam.
Who was Muhammad?
The period between the classical era and the Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
The Christian holy wars fought to retake the Holy Land or defend Christianity.
What were the Crusades?
The major event that occurred in 1492.
What was Christopher Columbus' exploration to the West?
The cathedral built by Justinian I.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The three Islamic empires.
What were the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates?
The first Holy Roman Emperor.
Who was Charlemagne?
This style of architecture began during the High Middle Ages.
The major disease that killed a majority of Europe's population.
The split between the Eastern and Western Christian churches.
What was the Great East-West Schism?
Profession of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
The main source of stability in the Early Middle Ages.
What was the Christian Church?
Groups of craftsmen working together to control a craft.
What were guilds?
The group of people blamed for the Plague.
Who are the Jews?
The conquerors of Constantinople.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
What are Sunni and Shia?
The most dominant kingdom of the Early Middle Ages.
Who were the Franks?
What was Manorialism?
The bad smells believed to spread the plague.
What was miasma?
The time period of the Byzantine Empire.
What is 476-1453 AD?
The fictional narrator of The Thousand and One Nights.
Who is Scheherazade?
The Christian religious tradition that began in the Early Middle Ages.
What is monasticism?
The political system that kept lower lords and peasants in line under higher aristocrats and kings.
What was feudalism?
The people that resulted from intermarrying between the Slavs and the Rus.
Who were the Kievan Rus?