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early Islam
Baker's early middle ages Islamic civilization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ancient site where Constantine established his capital | Byzantium |
| the name Constantine first gave to his capital city | New Rome |
| the eventual name Constantine gave to his capital | Constantinople |
| Which Byzantine leader established a code of laws? | Justinian |
| What was the name of his code of laws (in Latin)? | Corpus Iuris Civilis |
| What is the English translation of Corpus Iuris Civilis | Body of Civil Law |
| greatest construction project of Byzantine empire | Hagia Sophia |
| Emperor of the Middle Byzantine period who pursued conquest of surrounding areas and destruction of images | Leo III |
| the people who held high government positions in the Byzantine empire | eunuchs |
| effect on women of eunuchs in government | women were forced into seclusion in homes |
| language used in the Byzantine empire | Greek |
| who were the Seljuks? | turkish tribe |
| What did the Seljuks do the the Byzantine empire? | Took Asia Minor |
| Seljuk leader at Nicaea | Suleiman |
| Name given to Suleiman's realm | Sultanate of Rum |
| two key cities of the Principality of Kiev | Kiev and Novgorod |
| Viking prince brought in to govern Principality of Kiev when people couldn't live in peace | Prince Rurik |
| Rurik's son who took over when Rurik left | Oleg |
| first leader of a unified Rus state | Oleg |
| who made the Rus state an Eastern Orthodox state | Vladimir |
| greatest ruler of the Rus State | Yaroslav the wise |
| Dates of Yaroslav | 1015-1054 |
| major building project of Yaroslav | cathedral at Kiev |
| historical record of the Rus state | Primary Chronicle |
| Probable birth date of Muhammad | 570-571 |
| Muhammad's trade before becoming a prophet | camel driver |
| What happened to Muhammad in 610 | angel Gabriel spoke to him |
| city where Muhammad first began preaching | Mecca |
| response to Muhammad in Mecca | rejection |
| nature of Mecca as a city | center of pagan worship |
| year that Muhammad left Mecca | 622 |
| to what city did Muhammad go from Mecca? | Yathrib |
| new name of Yathrib | Medina |
| name of Muhammad's flight to Medina | hijra/hegira |
| our year that was year 1 for the Moslem calendar | 622 AD |
| year that Muhammad died | 632 |
| name of Moslem New Year's Day | Al-Hijra |
| dates the Quran was written | 651-2 |
| language in which Quran was written | Arabic |
| name for Muhammad's successors | caliph |
| Muhammad's successor | Abu Bakr |
| first Islamic dynasty of caliphs | Umayyad |
| name for the traditions accepted as theology by the Sunnis | hadith |
| name for the schismatic group of Moslems who reject the hadith | Shiites |
| founder of direct line of caliphs accepted by Shiites | Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law |
| caliph described in the 1001 Arabian nights | Caliph Harun al Rashid- |
| Islamic writer of medical treatises | Al-Razi |
| Spanish Islamic philosopher who wrote commentaries on Aristotle | ibn Rushd (Averroes)-- |
| 3 monuments of Islamic Spain | mosque (now a cathedral) at Cordoba, Alhambra, Alcazar |
| tribal name of herders on Arabian peninsula | Bedouins |
| tribal name of herders in North Africa | Berbers |
| four main cities of Islamic civilization | Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, Damascus |
| caliph dynasty during which Seljuks took territory | Abbasid |
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