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Martisius S.S.
First term Quizz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When was the battle of tours? | 732 |
| What does allegiance mean? | Loyalty |
| What is a Hierarchy? | A system where the dew people at the top have the most power. |
| Charles the Great: | Chalemagne |
| Who is Oden? | A Viking god. |
| What is a vassalage? | A system where land is given in exhange for loyalty. |
| What was the city of Constantemople's name changed to and when? | Isatambul. It was changed after the Turkish invasion. |
| What is aristocracy? | People who have power because of their position in society. |
| What is a missi dominici? | A messanger sent out by Charlemagne to keep him informed. |
| What was Constantiolpe? | The capital city of the Eastern Empire. |
| Who was Justinian? | The Emporor of the Eastern Empire. |
| Who was Theodora? | Justinian's whife who helped him rule. |
| Who were the Vandals? | A Germanic tribe that attacked Rome. |
| Who was Clovis? | The first king of the Merovingian dynasty. |
| What is a creed? | A statement of belifs. |
| What is the Hegira? | Mohammed's emigration from Mecca to Medina: the start of the Islamic calendar. |
| What is the Ka'bah? | A square building in Mecca which is the focus of Muslim worship. |
| What importance does Medina play in Islamic history? | It is were Mohhamad started his first mosque. |
| What is a mosque? | A place of Muslim worship. |
| What is a munaret? | a prayer tower from which the muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. |
| Who are Muslims? | Followers of Islam. |
| What is the meaning of Islam? | It means submission to the will of God. |
| What is the Koran? | The sacred book of Islam |
| What does monotheisim mean? | Whorshipping one God. |
| Who is the Pope? | The head of the Catholic Church |
| What is a Caliph? | Civil and religious leader of a Sunni Muslim state. |
| What is Mecca? | The holy city of Muslims; birthplace of Mohammed. |
| What is the Universal church? | The worldwide church; during the Middle Ages it was the Catholic church. |
| What is papal supremacy? | The pope is the most important person in the church. |
| What us the Hadith? | It is called the traditions, the deeds and sayings of Mohammad. |
| What is the Sharia? | It is rules and regulations that govern day to day life (Koran and Hadith). |
| What did Arius preach? | He preached that Jesus was not God but the best of God's created beings. He was declared a heretic at the Council of Nicea. |
| List a few of the causes and consquences for the fall of Rome. | The Emporor's of Rome were greedy. Tribes outside the empire attact it's borders. In 73 years 20 out of 23 Emporors were murderd. The empire's defenses were weak in the middle but strong on the edges. |
| What was the policy "convert or die"? | When a king became Christian all his subjects had to also, or else they would be killed. If you were caught worshiping someone or thing other than God, you were killed. |
| How did the "convert or die" policy effect the church? | It meant that the church got many new members, but many of them didn't really believe. False ideas came into the church because no one took the time to educate the new Christians. |
| Who was one of the Kings/Leaders to use the "convert or die" policy? | Chalemagne. His empire became "Christian." |
| What was a reason that Pepin asked the pope for permission to become king? | The pope had a lot of influance over most people and if he said that Pepin should be king, no one was going to argue whith him. |
| What do you think was the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire? Support your opinion with four reasons that logically go together. | |
| What are the five pillars of Islam? | Belif, Worship, Almsgiving, Fasting, and Pilgramage. |
| Islam, Christianity, and Judaism - similarities and diferences ... what are they? | SIMILARITES: Monothesim - Belif in one God. (answere in progress) |
| What is one of the reasons for the spread of Islam? | - It told people that they would be treated equally. Slaves and women thought this was great. |
| What is the story of Muhammed's call? | Mohammed was in a cave on a mountian near Mecca. The angel Gabriel apperared to him and told him that God had chosen him to be his messenger. |
| What is another reason for the spread of islam? |
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