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Islamic Accomplishments
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Religion
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Byzantine Accomplishments
100
This beautiful type of hand writing was mastered by Muslims.
What is calligraphy?
100
The city whose modern name is Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
100
Religious items used to aid devotion and prayer.
What are icons?
100
The capital city of the Muslim Empire under Abbasid.
What is Baghdad?
100
These were able to withstand any attack...until the invention of gunpowder and cannons.
What are the walls of Constantinople?
200
The scientific device used by Muslims to calculate time, celestial events, and relative position.
What is an astrolabe?
200
The greatest Emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
Who was Justinian?
200
The name of the leader of the Orthodox Church.
What is the Patriarch?
200
The man who moved the Roman Empire's capital from Rome to Constantinople.
Who is Constantine?
200
Even though Constantinople is surrounded on three sides by water, the Byzantines built these to bring in fresh water.
What are aqueducts?
300
Three adjectives that describe Islamic Art.
What are colorful, intricate, geometric, symmetrical, abstract (no living beings)?
300
The term for kicking a person out of a church or religion.
What is excommunication?
300
The name of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Pope?
300
Justinian (blank) the rioters in the Hippodrome.
What is killed?
300
Justinian built this magnificent place of worship, which is still standing in Istanbul, Turkey.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
400
The basis for all knowledge, according to Muslim scholars.
What is mathematics?
400
The largest group of Muslims today.
Who are the Sunni?
400
This group of Muslims believes that the caliph (leader of Islam) should be a descendant of Muhammad.
What is Shi'a?
400
Spread of Islam, lack of wealth and resources, an unsatisfied populace, military defeats.
What are causes of the fall of the Byzantine Empire?
400
Constantinople's location at the meeting of Europe, Asia, and Africa made it a center for this.
What is trade?
500
Muslim scholars helped preserve the knowledge of these two ancient cultures.
What are the Greeks and Romans?
500
The name for the split between the Eastern and Western churches.
What is the Great Schism?
500
They believe that the first four caliphs were "rightly guided"
Who are Sunni Muslims?
500
The person Emperor Justinian shared all of his power with.
Who is his wife, Empress Theodora?
500
The people the Byzantines converted to Christianity.
Who are the Slavs?