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history midterms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Justinian | Emperor of Byzantine, tried to recapture roman glory, he ruled during the golden age |
| Theodora | great leader and wife of Justinian |
| Procopius | a court historian under justinian |
| Belisarius | A military commander under Justinian, helped stop the Nika rebellion |
| Autocrat | Ruler with absolute power |
| Patriarch | highest ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodox |
| Cryllic | The alphabet for the slavic languages |
| Saint Cyril | A missionary,philosopher who preached christianity to the byzantine empire. |
| Saint Methodius | brother of Saint Cyril, helped spread christianity to the byzantine empire |
| Hippodrome | A huge stadium for chariot racing |
| Basil II | had one of the most significant reigns in byzantine history, he was nicknamed the Bulgar slayer because of what he did to bulgarians when he conquered Bulgaria |
| Leo III | Emperor who supported iconoclasm or the destruction of icons. Due to this the pope excommunicated him, this eventually led to the Great Schism |
| Icon | Religious images or figures |
| Iconoclasts | people who broke into churches to destroy icons |
| Great Schism | The split up of the eastern orthodoxy and the western Christianity church |
| Hagia Sophia | the most beautiful church, it was built in constantinople. |
| The secret history | a book written by procopius in an attempt to turn the people against Justinian, the book talks about all the reasons justinian is a bad leader |
| Excommunication | kicking someone out of the church |
| Orthodox | one half of the church after the great schism, which separated eastern orthodox and western christianity. |
| Ottomans | people of the ottoman empire |
| Slavs | the people from the forests north of the black sea, intermarriage with the vikings, eventually those people founded russia |
| Varangians/ Vikings | the people from the north/ scandinavia, |
| Dnieper River | one of the main rivers in russia, runs into the black sea |
| Kiev | a large city in russia, founded by princess olga. Converted to christianity by vladimir. it eventually fell due to mistakes made by yaroslav and his sons |
| Princess Olga | ruled kiev and converted to christianity |
| Prince Vladimir | grandson of Princess Olga, he converted all his people to christianity |
| Yaroslav the wise | grand prince of kiev had many accomplishments like creating a legal code and founding the first library |
| Chief rurik | founder of Novgorod, he was a powerful chief |
| Mongols | people from Mongolia led by genghis Khan, they were invaders. |
| Genghis Khan | the founder of the mongol empire, he ruled for a long time and conquered many places |
| The golde horde | a political entity ruled batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis khan |
| Boyars | next in rank to a prince |
| Alexander Nevsky | a prince and military hero of Novgorod |
| Ivan the third "Great" | ruled at 13 years old, he stopped paying tribute to the Mongols and eventually liberated Russia |
| Ivan the fourth "Terrible" | grand prince of Moscow, first monarch to become a Tsar |
| Daniel Nevsky | russian prince who ruled over moscow from a young age |
| Anna Comena | princess of byzantine empire, she wrote the alexiad which ended up becoming a great primary source |
| Justinian's Code | laws collected under Justinian influenced by roman laws |
| Volga River | main river in russia, runs into the caspian sea |
| Don river | main river in russia |
| Ivan the first | Also known as moneybags, he made alliances with the mongols, this made him rich because he collected lots of tribute from the peasants and gave it to the mongols but he kept some. |
| Nile river | longest river in africa |
| Congo river, | river in central africa, |
| Zambezi river, | river in south eastern africa, |
| Lake victoria, | huge lake named after queen victoria, |
| Lake tanganyika, | deepest lake in africa, |
| Great rift valley, | large valley in the ground 4500 miles long |
| Mount kilimanjaro, | only volcano in africa, very large mountain |
| Sahara Desert, | largest desert in the world northern africa |
| Kalahari Desert, | home of the kalahari bushmen |
| namib desert, | dry desert in south western africa |
| sahel, | the savanna region south of the sahara |
| savanna, | grassy plains main biome in africa |
| chief, | ruler of a tribe |
| age sets, | organized by age for a job |
| initiation rites, | series of tests to become an adult |
| bride wealth, | when the groom pays money to the brides father for permission to marry |
| collectivism, | everyone works together |
| tribal marks, | to identify you with your tribe |
| diviner, | witch doctor |
| fetish, | wards off evil |
| aminism, | the belief in the spirits of nature |
| nubia, | located in egypt had a part in the gold trade |
| aksum, | a kingdom located in southern kush began in 1000 bc |
| king ezana, | a strong ruler of aksum |
| coptic christianity, | the belief that jesus christ is solely divine |
| griot, | story that is passed down generation to generation |
| ghana, | powerful empire became very rich through trade |
| soninke, | tribe that started the ghana empire |
| mali, | created by mande tribe became rich through gold |
| sundiata, | first king of Mali grandad of Mansa musa |
| mansa musa, | powerful king of mali richest man ever went on important hajj |
| timbuktu, | large city in mali where there are lots of mosques and scholar |
| ibn battuta, | famous traveler traveled for 30 years wrote a book about travels called the rihlah |
| songhai, | empire that took over the mali controlled the trade |
| sunni ali ber, | strong ruler of songhai not a good muslim helped his people get lots of food |
| gao, | capital of songhai |
| askia muhammad, | he defeats sunni ali ber II devout muslim takes a pretty important hajj |
| hausa, | the city states that competed with each other they kept fighting each other |
| queen amina, | queen of hausa she became very rich from trade |
| benin, | major trading state descendants of the Efe |
| djenne-djenno, | earliest city in west africa known for trading |
| bantu, | a main language that influenced many other languages |
| yoruba, | known for their art descendants of the ife |
| great zimbabwe, | a city made by the Shona people |
| kilwa, | had control of gold trade became a wealthy city-state |
| swahili, | a language formed through arabic and bantu |
| mutopa empire, | they controlled trade and were very powerful but portugal conquered them |
| cowrie shells, | valuable shells |
| mutota, | founder of the mutapa empire |
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