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Mid-Term Review
Chapters 10, 11, 13, and 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the last and greatest prophet? | Muhammad |
| What is the name of the single God that Muslims worship? | Allah |
| What is the definition of Islam? | Submission to the will of Allah |
| What is the definition of Muslim? | One who has submitted |
| What was the name of the migration that Muhammad traveled? | The Hijrah |
| What was Yathrib soon renamed to? | Medina |
| How many times must a Muslim pray each day? | Five |
| What is the name of the Islamic house of worship? | Mosque |
| What is the holy book of Islam? | The Qur'an |
| What are the duties a Muslim must fulfill? | The Five Pillars |
| What language is the holy book written in? | Arabic |
| What is another term for a successor or a deputy? | A caliph |
| What was the name of the family that moved the Muslim capital to Damascus? | The Umayyads |
| The _____ believe that the first four caliphs were rightly guided. | The Sunni |
| The _______ believe that all rulers must be descended from Muhammad. | The Shiites |
| Which group of people rejected the luxurious life of the Umayyads? | The Sufi |
| What was the name of the dynasty that ruled the Muslim empire? | The Abbasids |
| What city was created in central Iraq? | Baghdad |
| What would the wife of a poor man do? | Work in the fields |
| What was the art of beautiful handwriting? | Calligraphy |
| What is the form of mathematics that broke off of the technique al-jabr? | Algebra |
| Who was the high ranking nobleman that ruled the Byzantine Empire? | Justinian |
| The what was the body of civil law Justinian had created? | Justinian's Code |
| What was the name of the church Justinian built? | The Hagia Sophia |
| What was the capital of Byzantium? | Constantinople |
| What was the name of the disease that wiped out most of the population? | The Bubonic Plague |
| Why did Eastern and Western Christianity split? | Over the use of icons |
| What was Russia's first unified settlement? | Kiev |
| Who visited Constantinople? | Princess Olga |
| What religion did Vladimir convert to? | Christianity |
| Who was the son of Vladimir that took the throne in 1019 | Yaroslav the Wise |
| What did Yaroslav accomplish? | Building many churches and the first library |
| What was suddenly disrupted? | Trade |
| What was the name of the group that attacked and burned Kiev? | Mongols |
| Who led this group of fierce warriors? | Genghis Khan |
| Who took the name "czar?" | Ivan III |
| What was the act of selling positions? | Simony |
| What was the act of kings appointing bishops? | Lay investiture |
| What did serfs have to pay as a percentage to the chruch? | A tithe |
| Who were the landowners? | Lords |
| What were the name of people that received land? | Vassals |
| What was the overall goal of the Inquisition and the Reconquista? | To drive Muslims and non-Christians out of Spain |
| What was the plague that decreased the European population? | The Bubonic Plague |
| Where did the Bubonic plague come from? | Mongolian Rats |
| What were the 2 main types of guilds? | Craft and Merchant guilds |
| What where the three main problems that occurred in the church? | Priests marrying and having families, simony, and lay investiture |
| Who were the two popes that took action by making reforms? | Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII |
| What was the name of the law against simony? | Canon law |
| What was a church constructed to resemble? | A kingdom |
| What were three things that helped agriculture? | Horsepower, the iron plow, and the three-field system |