Unit 4 -- Byzantium and Islam -- Key Terms

THIS LIST CONTAINS ONLY KEY TERMS -- YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE NOTES

Not in any particular order

Commodus

Diocletian

Theodosius

Edict of Milan

Gaul

Huns

Attila

Visigoths

Constantine

Constantinople

Byzantium

Eastern Roman Empire

Western Roman Empire

Germania

Anglo-Saxons

476 AD and the Sack of Rome

Byzantine Civilization

Christian Orthodoxy

Justinian

Corpus of Civil Law

Hagia Sophia

Great Schism (1054 AD)

Cyrillic Language

Seljuk and Ottoman Turks

Steppe

Yugoslavs

Eastern Slavs

Western Slavs

Boyars

Rus and the Vikings

Kiev

Mongol Rule in Russia

Muscovy

The 3rd Rome

Tsar / Czar

Ivan III (the Great)

Mohammad

Mecca

Medina

Bedouin

Trade in Arabia

Allah

Hijrah

Ethiopia

Priester John

Koran / Quran

Five Pillars of Islam

Caliph

Shiites

Sunni

Dome of the Rock

Reconquest

Tours

Angel Gabriel

Moslem capture of the Holy Land

Women in Islamic Society

Islamic Science and learning

Mongols

Jihad

Spread of Islam across Africa

Notes

  1. I will not be able to cover everything in class, but you will be responsible for all these terms.
  2. possible essays for the exam
  1. Punic Wars
  2. Fall of Rome
  3. Christianity and its spread
  4. Five Pillars of Islam
  5. Byzantine Empire between Islam and Christendom
  6. Slavs, Orthodoxy, Cyrillic Language and Eastern Europe
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