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Justinian's Code   Multiparty collection of laws and legal commentary issued in the sixth century by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, consisting of the Codex, the Digest, and the Institutes.  
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Dioceses   Geographic administrative districts of the church, each under the authority of a bishop and centered around a cathedral.  
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Heresy   A religious practice or belief judged unacceptable by church officials.  
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Pope   Heads of the Roman Catholic Church, who became political as well as religious authorities. The period of a pope’s term in office is called a pontificate.  
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Orthodox Church   Another name for the Eastern Christian Church, over which emperors continued to have power.  
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Sacraments   Certain rituals of the church believed to act as a conduit of God’s grace, such as the Eucharist and baptism.  
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Iconoclastic Controversy   The conflict over the veneration of religious images in the Byzantine Empire.  
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Wergeld   Compensatory payment for death or injury set in many barbarian law codes.  
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Penance   Ritual in which Christians asked a priest for forgiveness for sins and the priest set certain actions to atone for the sins.  
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Saints   People who were venerated for having lived or died in a way that was spiritually heroic or noteworthy.  
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Carolingian   A dynasty of rulers that took over the Frankish kingdom from the Merovingians in the seventh century; derives from the Latin word for “Charles,” the name of several members of this dynasty.  
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Treaty of Verdun   A treaty ratified in 843 that divided Charlemagne’s territories among his three surviving grandsons; their kingdoms set the pattern for the modern states of Germany, France, and Italy.  
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Qur'an   The sacred book of Islam  
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Hadith   Collections of the sayings of and anecdotes about Muhammad.  
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Sunna   An Arabic term meaning “trodden path.” The term refers to the deeds and sayings of Muhammad, which constitute the obligatory example for Muslim life.  
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Five Pillars of Islam   The basic tenets of the Islamic faith; they include faith in God and Muhammad, praying five times daily, fasting and praying during the month of Ramadan, making a pilgrimage to Mecca, and making alms to the poor.  
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Umma   A community of people who share religious faith and commitment rather than a tribal tie.  
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Diwan   A unit of government.  
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Imam   The leader in community prayer.  
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Shi'a   Arabic term meaning “supporters of Ali”; they make up one of the two main divisions of Islam.  
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Sunni   the larger of the two main divisions of Islam  
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Ulama   A group of religious scholars whom Sunnis trust to interpret the Qur’an and the Sunna  
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Emirs   Arab governors who were given overall responsibility for public order, maintenance of the armed forces, and tax collection.  
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Shari'a   Muslim law, which covers social, criminal, political, commercial, and religious matters.  
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Dhimmis   A term meaning “protected peoples”; they included Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians.  
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Madrasa   A school for the study of Muslim law and religion.  
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Mozarabs   Christians who adopted some Arabic customs but did not convert.  
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Bantu   people living south and east of the Congo River.  
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Sudan   The African region surrounded by the Sahara, the Gulf of Guinea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the mountains of Ethiopia.  
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Berbers   North African peoples who controlled the caravan trade between the Mediterranean and the Sudan.  
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Mogadishu   A Muslim port city in East Africa founded between the eighth and tenth centuries; today it is the capital of Somalia.  
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Stateless Societies   African societies bound together by ethnic or blood ties rather than by being political states.  
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Ghana   From the word for “ruler,” the name of a large and influential African kingdom inhabited by the Soninke people.  
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Koumbi Saleh   The city in which the king of Ghana held his court.  
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Timbuktu   Originally a campsite for desert nomads, it grew into a thriving city under Mansa Musa, king of Mali and Africa’s most famous ruler  
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Aksum   A kingdom in northwestern Ethiopia that was a sizable trading state and the center of Christian culture.  
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Swahili   The East African coastal culture, named after a Bantu language whose vocabulary and poetic forms exhibit strong Arabic influences.  
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Kilwa   The most powerful city on the east coast of Africa by the late thirteenth century.  
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Great Zimbabwe   A ruined South African city discovered by a German explorer in 1871; it is considered the most powerful monument south of the Nile Valley and Ethiopian highlands.  
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Sunni - Shi'a Divide   began in a dispute about succession to Muhammad, but over time many differences in theology developed.  
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