Byzantine Empire
What art form was famously used by the Byzantines for religious murals?
mosaics
What Empire succeeded in capturing Constantinople?
Ottoman Empire
What is a caliph?
Head of Islam, successor to Muhammad
What was Constantinople surrounded by on three sides? Hint: on a peninsula
Water
What Byzantine invention was used in naval attacks and could burn on water and land?
Greek Fire
What religions were allowed to practice in the Ottoman Empire?
All/ Islam, Christianity, Judaism
What Muslim Family begins the Islamic Golden Age?
Abbasids
Who were the Nomadic peoples that originated in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)?
Seljuk Turks
What was the system of laws created by Justinian I called?
Justinian's Code
Who are "people of the book"?
Muslims, Christians, Jews
What was the major learning center, library, and academy, located in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age, called?
House of Wisdom
In 1480, Ivan III claims this title, meaning Caesar, as the ruler of Russia
Czar
What was destroyed and outlawed during the Iconoclasm in the 700s?
Icons/worship of Icons
What Chinese invention was Osman I's success based on?
Gunpowder
What is the most famous and prevalent type of Muslim architecture?
Mosques
This Church later became a mosque after the Islamic conquest of Constantinople
Hagia Sophia
Why was the Byzantine Empire begin to weaken? (3)
Wars
Plague
Loss of land
Why did the Ottoman Empire want to capture Constantinople?
To control trade in the Black Sea
Where in Europe did the Umayyads set up their own caliphate?
Spain
What type of monster did Sindbad fight in his voyage?
Cyclops