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Islamic Accomplishments
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Byzantine Accomplishments
100
What kind of writing was especially important to Muslims?
What is poetry.
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
Between which two continents was Constantinople located?
Europe and Asia
200
Omar __________ was a great Persian scientist, mathematician and poet.
Who is Omar Khayyam
200
Considered the greatest Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, his rule began in 527 AD ?
Who was Justinian?
200
A muslim house of worship
What is a mosque.
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
What famous Islamic scientist developed the Canon of Medicine?
Ibn Sina
300
The term for kicking a person out of a church or religion.
What is excommunication?
300
Name the two branches (Churches) of Christianity that formed after the split of the Christian Church.
What are the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church?
300
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What did Justinian do to the rioters in the Hippodrome?
300
Justinian built this magnificent place of worship, which is still standing in Istanbul, Turkey.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
400
The word __________ comes from the Arabic word: "al-jabr"
What is ALGEBRA
400
The largest group of Muslims today, about 85% currently.
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 (Shiites)?
400
The Byzantine Empire experienced a final period of greatness under _____?
Basil II
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 believed that any truly religious Muslim man in Muhammad's tribe could lead the community.
Who are Sunni Muslims?
500
When Muslims pray, they kneel in a direction that faces toward ________?
Mecca
500
After the schism of ______ (year), there were two distinct forms of Christianity.
1054